Bad news HIMYM fans! CBS has cancelled the How I Met Your Mother spin off "How I Met Your Dad" due to creative issues within the show, and will HIMYD move to another TV network?
According to reports from THR, CBS confirmed that How I Met Your Dad will be passed on today due to issues surrounding the script for the pilot episode. The network wanted to redo the script in other for How I Met Your Dad to start production.
"There were elements on the pilot that didn't work out," CBS' Nina Tassler told THR. "We tried to work out about redoing the pilot. That's not happening right now. Sometimes you run into these kind of issues and you hope they can resolve themselves in that time frame."
CBS did the same thing before to other TV shows like "The Big Bang Theory", "Numbers", and the new comedy show "The McCarthys". Other sources say the studio and producers wanted a series order commitment if they were to reshoot the pilot, but in the end the network decided that HIMYD will not happen.
"I'm heartsick; we loved this brand and we love the producers but it didn't work out," she said, noting they don't have "final word on it." Tassler stressed that the creative drives CBS' business and felt that "re-piloting was in the best interest of protecting the creative elements of the show." "That was our position, not necessarily theirs."
In spite of all that there is a silver lining to it as E! Online reported that HIMYD pilot will be shopped to other networks. CBS' option to pass on the series means other networks will pick up the show anytime they wanted. Given the shows wild popularity and fan base it would be in another networks best interest to pick up HIMYD.
How I Met Your Dad stars Greta Gerwig, Nicholas D'Agosto, Andrew Santino, Tiya Sircar, and Drew Tarver. The series narrator is Meg Ryan.
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