How I Met Your Mother Spinoff Is Coming, Has the Premise You'd Expect

A spinoff of the popular TV show How I Met Your Mother, which ended its run after nine seasons in 2014, is on the way. This is according to The Hollywood Reporter, which has confirmed the existence of the show and that its title is How I Met Your Father. It's reportedly being written by This Is Us scribes Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger.

Whereas the original show told its story from the male perspective, the spinoff is told from the point of view of a female main character; the story is of course how she met her spouse. Like the show it's based on, How I Met Your Father will be an ensemble comedy, featuring a new set of characters.

How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas are said to be on-board as executive producers.

Bays and Thomas, alongside Saturday Night Live's Emily Spivey, created a pilot for a version of the show called How I Met Your Dad in 2014, but it didn't get picked up. This pilot featured Greta Gerwig in the lead role with Meg Ryan as the narrator.

How I Met Your Mother ran on GameSpot parent company network CBS from 2005-2014. The half-hour show, which is still on TV via syndication, starred Jason Segel, Josh Radnor, Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders, and Neil Patrick Harris.

There is no word yet on who might star in How I Met Your Father or when it will premiere.