'How I Met Your Mother’ Sequel Series Starring Hilary Duff Now playing on Hulu

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didnt they already try this a few years ago

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On November 15, 2013, it was announced that CBS and the series' producer 20th Century Fox Television would launch How I Met Your Dad, a woman-centric variation executive-produced by Bays, Thomas, and Emily Spivey.[78] The new series would possibly have featured a new bar and would not have tied into the original series.[79] The primary cast of the series was revealed to be Greta Gerwig, Drew Tarver, Nicholas D'Agosto, and Andrew Santino.[80] On April 23, 2014, Meg Ryan was announced to voice future Sally.[81] On May 14, 2014, CBS passed on picking up How I Met Your Dad since show creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays did not want to reshoot the pilot.[82] Nina Tassler, the entertainment president at CBS, stated that "there were elements of the pilot that didn't work out". Talks of the series being "shopped" to other networks emerged.[82][83] Netflix, FOX and NBC were named as possible candidates for picking up the show.[84] Ultimately, nothing came of those talks. It was reported that the options on the cast contracts had expired and they had been released from their contracts and co-creator Carter Bays denied any rumors that the spin-off pilot will be reshot. On July 11, 2014, Bays confirmed that the spin-off project was officially dead.[85] Six days later, Nina Tassler said that CBS would "love the opportunity to take another shot" at the pilot and that she would continue to "hound" Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, even though they shot down the idea of a new version of the project stating that they had both moved on.[86]

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