{"id":20843,"date":"2024-05-26T06:29:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20843"},"modified":"2024-05-26T08:05:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T14:05:42","slug":"post-mortem-how-i-met-your-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/post-mortem-how-i-met-your-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Mortem – How I Met Your Father"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As How I Met Your Mother<\/em><\/a> 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<\/em>, featuring the same basic premise as HIMYM<\/em> but from a woman’s perspective.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

The project, retitled How I Met Your Father<\/em>, was resurrected in 2016, with new producers on board, but quickly fizzled out.\u00a0 A third attempt started the next year, which gained traction and was eventually picked up by Hulu, debuting in 2022.\u00a0 Starring Hilary Duff, Francia Raisa, and Chris Lowell, the first season debuted in January of 2022.\u00a0 It returned for a 20-episode second season in 2023, but Hulu pulled the plug in September, announcing the show was cancelled.<\/p>\n

Despite what I’m sure were the best efforts of all involved, the show lacked the charm of its predecessor.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Seeing as the show was cancelled following the second season, the mystery, such as it was, probably wasn’t resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 After disagreements arose with CBS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[10804,504,10802,10803,10805,10801,1058,207,4745,10270,5699],"class_list":["post-20843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-carter-bays","tag-cbs","tag-chris-lowell","tag-craig-thomas","tag-emily-spivey","tag-francia-raisa","tag-hilary-duff","tag-himym","tag-how-i-met-your-dad","tag-how-i-met-your-father","tag-hulu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20847,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions\/20847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}