According to multiple sites like Entertainment Weekly
EW has confirmed that HIMYM creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and former Up All Night EP Emily Spivey have pitched a female-led half-hour comedy called How I Met Your Father. Like HIMYM, it would feature a group of friends, be set in New York and chronicle the main character’s quest to meet her future husband. There’s a chance the proposed project might also feature HIMYM icon MacLaren’s Pub.
If the idea is given the greenlight — talks are extremely preliminary — the new slate of characters would likely be introduced in the How I Met Your Mother series finale, according to reports.
Earlier this year, Thomas, speaking to EW for our How I Met Your Mother cover story, admitted that a spin-off possibility was something he and Bays were “thinking about.” “There’s a world where the universe of the show can keep existing in a way that feels coherent to what’s come before, but new enough to be worth watching.”
When I first heard this idea a while ago I thought they we going to do it from The Mother’s perspective which I liked, but it seems like it will be a whole new cast. I’m not sure how I feel. What about you guys?
That How I met your Father-thing had been a joke for the past two years in online communities. A wishful thought a lot of fans of the show would’ve loved to see work out. I think the 200th HIMYM-episode (titled How your father met me) will be the format we’d actually like to see (The mother meeting Ted from her point of view), but this spin-off will be bad. Really bad. It will be a 1 season-only drama (as it’s gonna be canned not soon after), a disaster of the same kaliber as Joey, Scrubs: Med School, Top of the heap (Married with Children-spinoff) etcetera. It will try to shine out as a sequel to a great sitcom, but will only be seen as the annoying and cashin-side product everyone hates. At least, that’s my view on this for now.
PS: “the new slate of characters would likely be introduced in the How I Met Your Mother series finale”, they better not be doing that! :O That’s an awful idea… 🙁
I like the idea….like really like it. of course its going to be a whole new cast, as long as its Cristin Milioti and the same kids, itll be fine.
Well, it’s not. It’s not about the mother meeting Ted. It’s gonna be “a group of friends, be set in New York and chronicle the main character’s quest to meet her future husband. There’s a chance the proposed project might also feature HIMYM icon MacLaren’s Pub”, therefore making ‘How I met Ted’ simply impossible. It’s more gonna be like… Saved by the bell, the new class. Yeah, that’s something you shouldn’t be thinking about.