The gang’s all right here! How I Met Your Mom was a popular culture phenomenon throughout its nine-season run, and within the years that adopted. It’s additionally a collection that has caused as many laughs because it did tears.
Created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, How I Met Your Mom advised main man Ted Mosby’s (Josh Radnor) love story in reverse — in the end main up to date the place he meets the mom of his kids. Radnor starred alongside Alyson Hannigan (Lily Aldrin), Jason Segel (Marshall Eriksen), Neil Patrick Harris (Barney Stinson) and Cobie Smulders (Robin Scherbatsky).
The collection, which ran on CBS from 2005 to 2014, additionally featured the late bob Bob Saget narrating as a future model of Ted Mosby.
“One thing about How I Met Your Mom was [that] it at all times upended your expectations,” Radnor advised HuffPost Stay in 2016. “It at all times made you cry, it at all times was not what you thought it was.”
The acclaimed present’s ending was plotted out years prematurely. Nevertheless, when HIMYM wrapped in 2014, longtime followers voiced their disappointment for the collection finale as a consequence of its controversial ending.
4 years later, Smulders spoke out in protection of the sitcom’s last moments. “I’ll say, I’ve had individuals inform me once they binge watch it [now], they don’t actually have an issue with the ending,” she advised Newsweek in December 2018. “It is sensible to them. That’s what our creator type of meant from the start.”
Shortly after the present concluded, it was introduced {that a} spinoff collection titled How I Met Your Dad was within the works at CBS with Bays, Thomas and Emily Spivey. The undertaking was in the end scrapped, however This Is Us coexecutive producers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger have been then tapped to tackle the undertaking two years later.
Aptaker and Berger, nonetheless, quickly discovered themselves too busy to juggle creating the sitcom spinoff after being promoted to government producers/co-showrunners on This Is Us. The next 12 months, Alison Bennett — a author and producer identified for FX’s You’re the Worst — subsequently took over.
The spinoff was formally confirmed in April 2021, with Hilary Duff within the lead function. The collection forged Francia Raisa, Tom Ainsley, Tien Tran, Surah Sharma, Chris Lowell, Josh Peck and Daniel Augustin earlier than filming began in August 2021.
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