'Mother' reruns nest at Lifetime

September 24, 2008 Lifetime has snapped up exclusive cable rerun rights to "How I Met Your Mother" from Twentieth Television. Both parties declined comment on the financial terms of the deal, but sources said "Mother" fetched around $725,000 per episode in a highly competitive bidding situation that included at least six interested cable nets. "Mother's" per-episode fee seems in line with other recent high-profile off-net comedy sales to cable. it falls between FX's purchase of "Two and a Half Men" in 2006 ($750,000 an episode) and TBS' licensing of "The Office" last year ($650,000).

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