'How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Finale' CBS Signs Spinoff Show 'How I Met Your Dad'
With How I Met Your Mother in its final season, CBS executives are in talks of launching a spinoff, How I Met Your Dad.
According to Deadline, the network signed a deal with 20th Century Fox TV for the pilot episode of the spinoff. The show is said to be similar to the original with a "kindred spirit", but from a female's perspective. And fans' favorite characters won't be returning. Instead, How I Met Your Dad will have a brand new cast and of course a new narrator to tell the story.
Set to write the pilot are How I Met Your Mother creators and executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas along with the creator and executive producer of Up All Night Emily Spivey.
How I Met Your Mother has already been labeled one of CBS' most successful shows. So far, it's gotten the highest ratings of any other show that airs on Monday nights. The series also follows behind the popular Big Bang Theory as the second highest rated show on the network overall.
While How I Met Your Mother is a popular show in it's ninth season, some aren't sure if the spinoff series will hit the same mark.
Defamer blogger Beejoli Shah asked, "You know the bored looks on the faces of the teenagers at the start of each episode of How I Met Your Mother?" implying that the audience would have the same glances for How I Met Your Dad.
Uproxx writer Andrew Roberts joked that this is a desperate move in hopes of launching another high rated series. He wrote, "I mean losing your highest rated sitcom behind 'The Big Bang Theory' would make me run to hills for ideas."
Rumors swirled that the cast of the spinoff would make their debut during the How I Met Your Mother finale, but Thomas took to Twitter to say that's not true. On Friday, November 15 he wrote, "Corrections to the story: We will not be introducing the new characters on HIMYM; this will be its own, totally new show."
The series finale of How I Met Your Mother is set to air in spring 2014.
