It looks like a How I Met Your Mother spinoff is not going to happen.
According to recent reports from Deadline, CBS is not satisfied with the How I Met Your Dad pilot episode. So much so they are even planning on selling it to another network. Despite, suggestions and options to refill the television pilot with a new cast, writers, etc. CBS executives have not made a decision. To make matters worse, CBS has to make a decision by today.
Spinoff pilot How I Met Your Dad had been in no-man’s land since last Friday, when the networkmade its new series pickups and it was not among them.
However, there had been little back-and-forth between CBS and studio 20th Century Fox TV over the past few days. There was an offer from the network to re-pilot the project, something CBS has previously done successfully with The Big Bang Theory and, most recently, with newly picked up comedy The McCarthys.
But I hear that came with no commitment to go to series, whichHIMYD producer 20th Century Fox TV was unwilling to do, given the project’s pedigree and auspices, HIMYM creators Craig Thomas & Carter Bays and Emily Spivey.
I hear 20th TV was willing to take a series order with the commitment to retool the pilot, something CBS is currently doing with The Odd Couple, which it owns. That pilot, picked up for midseason, is being reworked, including recasting two parts.
It is also reported that there were parts of the show that did not seem to work out according to CBS entertainment president, Nina Tassler.
The new How I Met Your Dad is based on the show How I Met Your Mother but this time the story is told from a mother’s point of view and features a new group of New York friends who hang out. The cast is expected to featured Greta Gerwig, Drew Tarver, Tiya Sircar, Nick D’Agosto and Andrew Santino.
