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Grab your yellow umbrella! Subsequently plenty of speculation, a How I Met Your Female parent spinoff was finally confirmed in April 2021 and diehard fans are convinced information technology volition be legen — look for it — dary.

Affectionately referred to equally HIMYM, the CBS series came to a close after 9 seasons in March 2014 — and its controversial finale continued to spark debates online for years to come. Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders, Josh Radnor, Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segel starred in the original series, with Bob Saget narrating.

Presently afterwards the terminate of HIMYM, creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas teamed up with Greta Gerwig and writer Emily Spivey to work on a pilot for a follow-upwards series titled How I Met Your Dad. Though audiences were eager to run into what the next affiliate would bring, the testify was not picked upwardly.

It wasn't for another seven years that fans got their wish and an official HIMYM spinoff was announced. Hilary Duff , who previously fought for a Lizzie McGuire revival, nabbed the starring role in Hulu'due south How I Met Your Male parent in April 2021. She besides scored a producing credit.

"I've been incredibly lucky in my career to play some wonderful characters and I'm looking forward to taking on the office of Sophie," the Younger alum told Deadline at the fourth dimension. "As a huge fan of How I Met Your Mother, I'chiliad honored and even a little nervous that Carter and Craig would trust me with the sequel of their baby. [Showrunners] Isaac [Aptaker] and Elizabeth [Berger] are vivid, and I can't expect to work alongside them and all of their genius. … I realize these are big shoes to fill up and I'grand excited to sideslip my [feet] in there."

Aptaker and Berger, who worked together on NBC'southward This Is The states , later told The Hollywood Reporter that they were "and then honored to be carrying the torch" for the new series. "We can't await for audiences to run across Sophie and her crew, and sentinel them come into their ain and find love in modern-day New York City," the dynamic duo noted. "And we hope nobody thinks information technology'south weird that Bob Saget will be playing sometime Hilary Duff's voice."

No hints take been equally to who might actually take over the narration of Sophie's journey, simply the spinoff is sure to pay homage to HIMYM without being an exact copy. However, longtime fans shouldn't await any OG stars to make a cameo.

"I have given How I Met Your Mother very footling thought," Harris teased in March 2018, telling TV Guide that "chapter is so complete and total of story" and the entire squad was proud of their "terminal lap."

The Glee alum continued, "I really just look dorsum on that chapter with groovy fondness. I merely don't feel like at that place's annihilation left to do, really."

Radnor, for his function, has been trying to put his HIMYM days backside him. "I virtually never think well-nigh [the show]," he told GQ in March 2018. "It's a weird matter, when you haven't washed something in almost iv years. But people will all the same come up to me and say, 'I just watched the series for the eighth time, all the mode through.' And I'g similar, 'That'due south too much. You've gotta move on.' … It'due south such a part of certain people'southward lives."

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