TV bosses behind “How I Met Your Mother” are planning a spin-off, according to US reports.
The hit sitcom, which stars Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan, is in the midst of its ninth and final season, but creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas may continue their reign on television with a new show.
Bays and Thomas, along with former “Saturday Night Live” writer Emily Spivey, have pitched an all-female comedy called “How I Met Your Father,” according to Entertainment Weekly.
Like its predecessor, the spin-off would tell the tale of a group of friends living in New York and follow the main character’s journey to meeting her future husband. If the project is greenlighted, the new cast of characters would likely be introduced in the series finale next spring.
“How I Met Your Mother” has been one of America’s top-rated shows for the past eight years.
The story is about Ted Mosby, in the year 2030, he is relaying the story of how he met his wife to his daughter and son.
It starts in the year 2005, when then twenty-seven year old architect Ted was spurred on to want to get married after his best friends from his college days at Wesleyan, lawyer Marshall Eriksen, who was his roommate at the time and kindergarten teacher Lily Aldrin, got engaged after nine years of dating each other.
Ted’s new quest in life was much to the dismay of his womanizing friend, Barney Stinson. But soon after Marshall and Lily’s engagement, Ted believed that his life mate was going to be news reporter and aspiring news anchor
Robin Scherbatsky, who, despite having had a romantic relationship with her after this time, ended up being who the kids know as their “Aunt” Robin.
As Ted relays the story to his kids, the constants are that their Uncle Marshall, Aunt Lily, Uncle Barney and Aunt Robin are always in the picture and thus have something to do with how he got together with their mother.
