A spinoff of “How I Met Your Mother” is back on, TheWrap has confirmed.
“How I Met Your Father” will follow a new cast of characters and will be told from a woman’s perspective, but will follow the same format as the popular CBS sitcom that starred Josh Radnor, Cobie Smulders, Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel, and Neil Patrick Harris.
“This Is Us” co-executive producers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger will write the series and executive produce. “HIMYM” creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas will also executive produce. 20th Century Fox Television, where Aptaker and Berger have an overall deal, will produce.
Aptaker and Berger are represented by Verve, Management 360 and Hansen Jacobson. Bays and Thomas are represented by UTA.
Previously Bays, Thomas, and Emily Spivey tried to launch a spinoff of the original series entitled “How I Met Your Dad.”
That version would have followed Sally (Greta Gerwig) on the journey of how she met her husband. Meg Ryan would have served as the narrator just as Bob Saget did on the original show. However, CBS decided not to move forward with the series, citing “issues with the pilot.”
Most recently, Bays and Thomas landed a pilot production commitment for a new series based on the comedy of Chris Distefano, who will serve as an executive producer and co-writer.
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Plenty of great TV shows premiered in 2016. But you won't find any of them here. Click on to recall -- for one last time -- the year's most-likely-to-be-forgotten bombs, clinkers and stinkers (in alphabetical order).
"Damien" (A&E)
The proud holder of an 11 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, this TV adaptation of the horror movie franchise drew perhaps the most chillingly awful reviews of the year. "Ludicrous" was among the kinder summaries.
A major disappointment, considering the pedigree (Netflix/BBC co-production of a Douglas Adams novel series, with Elijah Wood costarring). But hey, BBC has already ordered season 2, so ....
A period piece that got the period all wrong, "Good Girls" told the kinda-sorta true story of women who took on discrimination at a newsweekly. So many liberties were taken with the facts, it became hard to take the show seriously.
Oh, this legal procedural was notorious, all right - mostly for its rotten reviews. "It’s like the writers are just throwing ideas on a wall to see what sticks," TheWrap's Amber Dowling wrote.
"Pure Genius"? Not according to critics of this high-tech medical drama. "Just a doctor drama with C.G.I. and without interesting character dynamics," according to the New York Times.
"Rush Hour" (CBS)
A TV show based on a hit movie - what could go wrong? Everything. "A dispiriting, derivative buddy-cop comedy," according to USA Today.
When Mick Jagger teamed up with Martin Scorsese to tell the story of the '70s record biz, what resulted was ... a curio that never clicked with viewers. HBO renewed the drama for a second season, then changed its mind and killed it after all.
TheWrap’s Best & Worst 2016: Peak TV? Not if you watched these shows, which proved that the small screen can still bestow mighty disappointments
Plenty of great TV shows premiered in 2016. But you won't find any of them here. Click on to recall -- for one last time -- the year's most-likely-to-be-forgotten bombs, clinkers and stinkers (in alphabetical order).
