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Post Mortem – How I Met Your Father

As How I Met Your Mother was wrapping up its final season in late 2013 and early 2014, its creators, Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, teamed with Emily Spivey for a spinoff titled How I Met Your Dad, featuring the same basic premise as HIMYM but from a woman’s perspective.  After disagreements arose with CBS over the pilot, CBS declined to pick up the show to series and, after being shopped around to other networks and streamers, the show was declared dead.

The project, retitled How I Met Your Father, was resurrected in 2016, with new producers on board, but quickly fizzled out.  A third attempt started the next year, which gained traction and was eventually picked up by Hulu, debuting in 2022.  Starring Hilary Duff, Francia Raisa, and Chris Lowell, the first season debuted in January of 2022.  It returned for a 20-episode second season in 2023, but Hulu pulled the plug in September, announcing the show was cancelled.

Despite what I’m sure were the best efforts of all involved, the show lacked the charm of its predecessor.  It also seemed to lose focus in the second season, where the lead character, Sophie, stopped looking for the father of her future child and instead was focused on finding her own father.  Seeing as the show was cancelled following the second season, the mystery, such as it was, probably wasn’t resolved.

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CBS Upfronts

PersonOfInterestRelevance1CBS, which fell behind NBC in the battle for 18-49 year olds thanks to the NFL and Olympics, mixed up their schedule for the fall at their upfront presentation this week.  After inking a deal to simulcast 8 weeks of Thursday Night Football, The Big Bang Theory will temporarily move back to Mondays, bumping 2 Broke Girls off the schedule until November.  Katharine McPhee stars in Scorpion, which will take the 8:00 hour.

Person of Interest stays where it is on Tuesday and Criminal Minds continues on Wednesdays.  Kevin Williamson brings a new drama, Stalker, to Wednesday featuring Dylan McDermott and Maggie Q.  Once the football commitment ends at the end of October, BBT and Elementary return to Thursdays.  The Amazing Race moves to Fridays, where it will be followed by holdovers Hawaii 5-0 and Blue Bloods.  The Good Wife continues on Sundays, where it will be joined be OG CSI and Tea Leoni’s new show, Madam Secretary.

The Mentalist will start off on the bench, along with a new version of The Odd Couple, starring Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon.  Missing altogether is How I Met Your Dad, the “spinoff” of How I Met Your Mother that seemed like a shoe-in to get picked up.