In spite of its major popularity, the ending to HIMYM left fans seriously divided. Hopefully this spin-off won’t suffer the same fate…
The new show reportedly in development is called How I Met Your Father (imagine…), and it will follow the same flash-back format as the CBS sitcom.
The main character narrates the story of how they met their future spouse, only this time it will be told from a woman's perspective. Maybe it’s a feminist reboot?
None of the previous cast – Josh Radnor, Cobie Smulders, Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel and Neil Patrick Harris – are set to appear in the spin-off series, which is getting new writers as well as new characters.
Issac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger of This Is Us are set to pen the script.
How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, and Emily Spivey are executive producers on the project.
There was an attempt to create a spin-off back in 2014 called How I Met Your Dad, starring Greta Gerwig and Meg Ryan. There was even a pilot, but CBS decided not to pick it up.
