The gang’s all here! How I Met Your MotherIt was a pop culture sensation during its nine-season run and the subsequent years. It’s also a series that has brought about as many laughs as it did tears.
Created by Carter Bays Craig Thomas, How I Met Your Mother told leading man Ted Mosby’s (Josh Radnor) love story in reverse — ultimately leading up to the moment where he meets the mother of his children. Radnor was a supporting actor Alyson Hannigan (Lily Aldrin), Jason Segel (Marshall Eriksen), Neil Patrick Harris(Barney Stinson) Cobie Smulders (Robin Scherbatsky).
The series aired on CBS from 2005 through 2014. It also featured Ted Mosby’s future version, bob Bob Saget, as the narrator.
“Something about How I Met Your MotherWas [that] it always upended your expectations,” Radnor told HuffPost Live2016 “It always made you cry, it always was not what you thought it was.”
The acclaimed show’s ending was plotted out years in advance. However, the ending was not planned. HIMYMWrapped in 2014, long-time fans expressed their disappointment at the series’ controversial ending.
Four years later, Smulders spoke out in defense of the sitcom’s final moments. “I will say, I’ve had people tell me when they binge watch it [now], they don’t really have a problem with the ending,” she told NewsweekDecember 2018. “It makes sense to them. That is what our creator sort of intended from the beginning.”
Soon after the finale, it was announced that a spinoff series would be created. How I Met Your DadCBS with Bays and Thomas was in the making Emily Spivey. The project was scrapped in the end, however. This Is UsCoexecutive producers Isaac Aptaker Elizabeth BergerThey were then selected to take on the project 2 years later.
Aptaker and Berger, however, soon found themselves too busy to juggle developing the sitcom spinoff after being promoted to executive producers/co-showrunners on This Is Us. The next year, Alison Bennett — a writer and producer known for FX’s You’re the Worst — subsequently took over.
Official confirmation of the spinoff was made in April 2021. Hilary Duffas the lead. The series cast Francia Raisa, Tom Ainsley, Tien Tran, Surah Sharma, Chris Lowell, Josh Peck Daniel AugustinBefore filming began in August 2021.
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