Last season, 20th Century Fox TV took a second stab at developing a spinoff from its long-running CBS comedy series How I Met Your Mother. The project, titled How I Met Your Dad, was spec-ed by the studio with This Is Us co-executive producers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. But as This Is Us took off, the duo…

'How I Met Your Dad' Not Going Forward At CBS: What Went Wrong? What's Next? By Nellie Andreeva If the How I Met Your Mother legacy continues, it won't be at CBS. Spinoff pilot How I Met Your Dad had been in no-man's land since last Friday, when the network made its new series pickups and it was not among them. 'Two An…

If the How I Met Your Mother legacy continues, it won’t be at CBS. Spinoff pilot How I Met Your Dad had been in no-man’s land since last Friday, when the network made its new series pickups and it was not among them. CBS left HIMYD alive while passing on all of its other not-ordered pilots except Gaffigan, which was…

The rumor mill went into overdrive this afternoon about a series pickup for How I Met Your Dad at CBS. I can report that the rumors for orders to How I Met Your Dad, The McCarthy or any other CBS pilots are untrue. CBS has not made any pickups yet and none are imminent today. I hear there were inquiry calls from CBS…

Meet the future Mother. I have learned that Meg Ryan has been quietly tapped as the narrator in CBS‘ How I Met Your Mother spinoff How I Met Your Dad. In the way that Bob Saget supplied the voice of future Ted (Josh Radnor) in HIMYM, Ryan will voice future Sally (played by Greta Gerwig) in the spinoff, telling her…

Tiya Sircar has been cast as one of the leads in CBS' How I Met Your Mother spinoff How I Met Your Dad, replacing Krysta Rodriguez. In the vein of the original series, HIMYD tells the story from a female point of view, that of Sally (Greta Gerwig), and revolves around a new group of friends in New York. Sircar will…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS' How I Met Your Mother spinoff How I Met Your Dad is making a casting change. Actress-singer Krysta Rodriguez, who was to play one of the leads, is departing the hybrid pilot. In the vein of the original series, HIMYD tells the story from a female point of view, that of Sally (Greta Gerwig), and…

There is rarely a TV director as closely associated with a series as Pam Fryman has been with CBS‘ How I Met Your Mother. She directed the pilot, contributing to the show’s unique hybrid format, stayed on as an executive producer and helmed a staggering 172 of the series’ 184 episodes, including the upcoming series…

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Creator and cast of CBS‘s Monday comedy series How I Met Your Mother declined to give up any information about the series finale at the PaleyFest tonight. Right off the bat moderator Wayne Brady (who played Neil Patrick Harris' gay brother on the show) asked creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays about the "rumors…

Masters of Sex‘s Nick D’Agosto and Mixology‘s Andrew Santino have been cast as leads alongside Greta Gerwig, Drew Tarver and Krysta Rodriguez in CBS' comedy pilot How I Met Your Dad, rounding out the How I Met Your Mother spinoff’s primary cast. In the vein of the original series, HIMYD tells the story from a female…

Actress-singer Krysta Rodriguez (Smash) has landed one of the leads alongside Greta Gerwig and Drew Tarver in CBS’s How I Met Your Mother spinoff How I Met Your Dad. In the vein of the original series, HIMYD tells the story from a female point of view, that of Sally (Gerwig), and revolves around a new group of friends…