Will there be a How I Met Your Mother spin-off? Deadline reports 20th Century Fox TV is hiring new writers for a spin-off to the CBS sitcom.
As we reported earlier, the studio began developing the project How I Met Your Dad with This Is Us writers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. However, the project was delayed because the two were promoted to co-showrunners on their NBC series.
Now, FOX chairman Dana Walden says there’s still a chance for How I Met Your Dad. Apparently, 20th Century Fox TV is developing the spin-off with new writers:
They will be starting from scratch. It’s one that’s been slowly cooked. If it’s the right idea the right execution, we’ll take that.”
What do you think? Are you a fan of How I Met Your Mother? Would you watch a spin-off?
I LOVED this show, and still watch it in reruns. However, I don’t think I’m really interested in another series which is just the same thing from a mother’s narrative. There’s plenty of excellent TV to watch, and my viewing hours are allotted carefully. I will not waste them on mediocre TV, including rehashed series and copycat storylines.
After nine years of taking HIMYM fans on an emotional rollercoaster ride, the creators showed their contempt by killing off the mother. I’m not really sure I’m in a forgiving mood. At least not yet.
You are so wrong Skwow. True fans of the show, and real romantics everywhere knew all along that Ted and Robin were meant to be together, and the show’s writers honoured that by finally bringing them together in the finale.
The “Mother” finale was my least favorite, and most disappointing, TV finale of all time. From that day forward, I’ve never watched a minute of the ad nauseum reruns of the show and would definitely not support a spinoff.
To me, it was one of the greatest series finales of all time. True fans of the show, and real romantics everywhere knew all along that Ted and Robin were meant to be together, and the show’s writers honoured that by finally bringing them together in the finale. I cried, I laughed and I ended up feeling emotionally satisfied. It was a brilliant masterpiece.
I definitely want a spin-off. Why not call it “How I Met Your Father”?