For people who remember [easyazon_link identifier=”B00FE5N09Y” locale=”US” tag=”tvovermind00a-20″]How I Met Your Mother[/easyazon_link] with fondness, it might interest them to learn that there might be a spin-off called How I Met Your Father. This is rather unsurprising because the initial TV show lasted for nine seasons encompassing more than two hundred episodes, meaning that it was a huge success. However, it should be noted that How I Met Your Father is far from being guaranteed, seeing as how it is still in the earliest stages of development at the moment.
Will This Spin-Off Succeed When Its Predecessors Failed?
In fact, it should be noted that this is not even the first time that someone has attempted to get a How I Met Your Mother spin-off off of the ground. For that matter, it is not even the first time that someone has attempted to get How I Met Your Father off of the ground, meaning that interested individuals might want to keep their enthusiasm tampered down to a reasonable level at this point in time.
For those who are curious, the first spin-off was proposed in 2013, meaning that the process must not have started up long after the character of Tracy McConnell had been introduced. Said spin-off would have been focused on said character as well as her friends in an intentional mirror of the initial TV show, which would have gone as far as to have a new bar for them to hang out at. Regardless, while the first proposed spin-off went as far as to film a pilot, the proposal stalled because the people behind it refused to refilm the pilot unless CBS guaranteed that it would pick up the spin-off. When CBS refused to take that risk, there was some talk of seeing if other TV channels were interested, but in the end, the effort failed.
The second time, there were plans for Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger to redo the pilot that had failed to bring in enough interest. However, they were soon promoted to important roles over at This Is Us, meaning that a lack of time resulted in them backing out of the second proposed spin-off, which was based on much the same premise as the first proposed spin-off.
This time, Alison Bennett has been hired to rewrite the pilot, while both of the co-creators of the initial TV show have been brought on to serve as executive producers. It remains to be seen whether this new attempt will have a better outcome than its predecessors, but people who remember How I Met Your Mother might want to pay close attention to the news for further information as it comes out.
Should There Be a How I Met Your Mother Spin-Off?
With that said, considering that How I Met Your Mother alienated a significant swathe of its viewers with an unfocused Season 9 as well as an unsatisfying series finale, one cannot help but suspect that the proposed spin-off will have a lot of high hurdles to clear if it wants to get off of the ground. It is difficult to see how the proposed spin-off will overcome the fact that the series finale killed off Tracy so that it could pair Ted with Robin one last time, which also wasted the build-up for the relationship between Barney and Robin. However, surprises do happen, meaning that it is still too early to say that How I Met Your Father will go nowhere.
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