‘How I Met Your Mother’ Spin-Off Details: Cast Of Characters For ‘How I Met Your Dad’ Officially Revealed [VIDEO]
As CBS' How I Met Your Mother enters its final stretch of episodes before its series finale airs on March 31, new details have emerged about the highly-anticipated spin-off show for next fall, How I Met Your Dad.
How I Met Your Mother Spin-Off Confirmed For CBS
Though not much has been revealed since CBS announced that the spin-off would happen back in November, speculation has been heavy about how the new show would fit into the arc of the old one. When news broke that Lyndsey Fonseca, who plays Ted's daughter, Penny, in Mother, was reportedly cast to star in Dad, it made it seem as if her character would then be doing as her father did by telling her children the story of how she met their father.
However, a new list of characters for the spin-off has been revealed, and Penny's name is not on it, dispelling the rumors.
According to Entertainment Weekly the characters on the spin-off show are:
1. Sally: The new version of HIMYM's Ted (Josh Radnor); She is described as a "vibrant, messy and unpredictable" woman who is a "female Peter Pan who has never grown up and has no idea where she's going in life." Unlike Ted however, she is not single when her story begins, and is actually married, though she is considering "calling it quits" with her husband, Gavin.
2. Juliet: The new version of Barney (Neil Patrick Harris); The character is described as Sally's "sexy, flamboyant, energetic, party-girl BFF." She runs a successful fashion blog and hates Sally's husband.
3. Danny & Todd: The new version of Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alison Hannigan); Danny is Sally's older brother who is a Type A, overachieving lawyer with whom she has little in common, yet they are still close. Todd, his husband, is one of Sally's closest friends from college, and is described as "warm and outgoing."
4. Frank: The new version of Robin (Cobie Smulders);The "hot nerd" who works in IT at Juliet's company and has a huge crush on Sally.
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The last character to be announced is the narrator, which will fill in where Bob Saget's older Ted character leaves off when the series ends on March 31.
