JamesG
12-14-2016, 10:38 PM
"How I Met Your Mother" Spin-off In Development from "This Is Us" Writers
by Kate Stanhope
December 14, 2016
Another potential spin-off of "How I Met Your Mother" is in the works. "How I Met Your Father" is in development at 20th TV from "This Is Us" writers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The ensemble show is told from the female point of view, in contrast to the original CBS series, that ran for nine seasons. "How I Met Your Father" is a new take with an entirely new set of characters and writers. Similar in vein to the original, the show tells the story of how the main character met their eventual spouse.
Original series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas would serve as exec producers on the project, along with Aptaker and Berger. However, Bays and Thomas would not be involved directly because of their overall deal at competing studio Sony Television.
Aptaker and Berger are under an overall deal at 20th, which produces "This Is Us" and, like Bays and Thomas, the two have been writing partners for several years.
Bays and Thomas, along with SNL alum Emily Spivey, created a "How I Met Your Dad" spin-off in 2014 that starred Greta Gerwig and featured the voice narration of Meg Ryan (as opposed to original star Josh Radnor and narrator Bob Saget). However, the pilot was surprisingly not picked up to series.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/how-i-met-your-mother-spinoff-development-is-us-writers-956298
by Kate Stanhope
December 14, 2016
Another potential spin-off of "How I Met Your Mother" is in the works. "How I Met Your Father" is in development at 20th TV from "This Is Us" writers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The ensemble show is told from the female point of view, in contrast to the original CBS series, that ran for nine seasons. "How I Met Your Father" is a new take with an entirely new set of characters and writers. Similar in vein to the original, the show tells the story of how the main character met their eventual spouse.
Original series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas would serve as exec producers on the project, along with Aptaker and Berger. However, Bays and Thomas would not be involved directly because of their overall deal at competing studio Sony Television.
Aptaker and Berger are under an overall deal at 20th, which produces "This Is Us" and, like Bays and Thomas, the two have been writing partners for several years.
Bays and Thomas, along with SNL alum Emily Spivey, created a "How I Met Your Dad" spin-off in 2014 that starred Greta Gerwig and featured the voice narration of Meg Ryan (as opposed to original star Josh Radnor and narrator Bob Saget). However, the pilot was surprisingly not picked up to series.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/how-i-met-your-mother-spinoff-development-is-us-writers-956298