Press Tour: 'Almost everything is completed' on 'How I Met Your Mother' renewal
Will the ninth season be the last? And will they hold the Mother reveal until the very end, no matter what?
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When a late December report suggested that "How I Met Your Mother" was on the verge of being renewed for a ninth season, I began speculating once again on when Carter Bays and Craig Thomas intend to introduce us to Ted Mosby's future wife, and came to the conclusion that they'd rather that not happen until the very end of the series.
The renewal still isn't official, but CBS president Nina Tassler told reporters at press tour today that, "I will be very happy to report, in a very few days, I believe, that things will be resolved. We're very confident and excited that things will all work out. Almost everything is completed."
And comments she made about the pending renewal suggested that, no, we will not be meeting the Mother anytime soon.
After the session, I asked whether storytelling decisions had come up in the renewal talks, or if it was just about locking down all the actors.
"They had two plans in place," Tassler said of Bays and Thomas, "which is 1)what they would do if we resolve this year, and 2)what they would do if we came back next year. So we're probably going to sit down and talk to them, probably, in about a month."
As the scrum continued, Tassler insisted, "I'm feeling very very confident" of renewal. "I'm feeling good!"
And is there a chance the show could continue for a tenth season or longer, given the ratings?
Tassler said, "We talked about this the other day: do people watch the show beyond knowing the Mother? I bet there are a lot of people that would continue to watch after that. But it would be the end as designed by Carter and Craig, and I wouldn't want to even attempt to undermine whatever their creative goal is."
This pretty clearly suggested that "the end as designed by Carter and Craig" involves taking the title of the series literally, but when another reporter pointed this out to Tassler, she doubled back and insisted, "I'm not telling you when you're going to meet the Mother."
And so we wait... and wait... and wait some more. And hope that things will be funny until we get there.
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Login or create a HitFix account Login SignupLeeZy
January 12, 2013 at 3:22PM EST Reply to CommentI long ago compared Bays and Thomas interviews about the Mother akin to Brett Favre declaring he was retiring only to return 3-4 months later.
Yeah, Bays and Thomas is far worse than Favre's teasing ever was.
John G
January 12, 2013 at 3:28PM EST Reply to CommentThe closer this show gets to renewal; the closer we get to the end of my hate watching of this show. Upon renewal, I think I will find myself with an extra 30 minutes of time for other things on Monday nights.
Chris
January 12, 2013 at 3:49PM EST Reply to CommentMeh. It's strictly DVR material as it is. It's not a terrible 20 minutes of my day.
Donnie
January 12, 2013 at 4:14PM EST Reply to Comment"....wait for it...."
Yeah, this has been getting really old. I don't know why the writers are so scared to change anything about the show. I mean, obviously they must know by now that the characters were originally what people drew to the show. Taking the title literally is ridiculous in itself, since the show's title isn't "How I dated a bunch of girls, while having wacky adventures with my friends when Uncle Barney still had sex with dumb girls" either.
The show used to be my favorite comedy - this season I dropped it from my schedule, because I finally realized that these writers were never going to move forward and continue to screw up the characters.
Carter and Craig should be taught by Mike Schur how to write and evolve a comedy!
Brian I love Parks and Rec, but I think we are all too hard on Bays and Thomas. They created a unique comedy that was good to great for 5 seasons. That is no small task. From a creative standpoint should they have ended the show at that point? Yes, probably? But CBS threw tons of money at them to keep things going, and I can't imagine any of us in their shoes would have turned it down.
January 14, 2013 at 11:34AM ESTKelli Oliver George
January 12, 2013 at 7:42PM EST Reply to CommentGee, at the risk of stating the obvious........the story of how my parents met did not simply end with my dad showing up his best friend's house and seeing that friend's sister-in-law playing the guitar and thinking "Wow, she's pretty!" There are SO many fun, silly, adorable stories from my parents' courtship, early years of dating and marriage that I still treasure.
The folks in charge of How I Met Your Mother are so f&*cking short-sighted on this. Not to mention, they are downright pedantic about the title of their show. Good grief.
jenfullmoon Seconded. Why can't we meet the mother and then have the last season to get Ted married off? Come ON.
January 12, 2013 at 10:07PM ESTIt's really sad how we all root for this show to get canceled. Geez. And yet...they keep insisting on stalling and stalling and stalling and not realizing how it's crapping up the show.
Lazycrockett I think the writers are scared to introduce the mother for fear that the show will become "Why the fans hate your mother."
January 13, 2013 at 9:40PM ESTBrandon
January 13, 2013 at 6:13AM EST Reply to CommentOk seriously... it's 2013 now, and 2030 when Older Ted is telling the story of How He Met the Mother. Are we supposed to believe that his daughter is any younger than 16 in 2030? In that case, with the ninth season ending in 2014, are we to believe that Ted meets the mother and IMMEDIATELY gets her pregnant? If Ted doesn't at least meet her by the end of this season, it just doesn't make sense. Lyndsy Fonseca at 18 could pass for 15 MAYBE, but that would still mean she would have to be conceived in 2014. Does Ted meet the Mother, immediately know she's the one, get married in a month, and start the babymaking? We're running up against time here folks....
LoopyChew
January 13, 2013 at 10:13AM EST Reply to CommentDammit, all they have to do is change the Season 9 title to "Now I Met Your Mother" and everything would be fine!
belinda
January 13, 2013 at 10:48PM EST Reply to Commenthonestly if we dont meet the mother by the end of this season (not that I give a rat's ass about the mother, no one does, if only the creators realize this, but only in that it means the show would HAVE to switch it up at least a little for its final season), I'm ready to finally cut ties with this show. (I rarely watch it as it is now, only tuning in when someone mentions it's a 'good' ep).
JREinATL
January 14, 2013 at 12:42PM EST Reply to CommentI'm so old, I remember when Alan said he was going to throw eggs at Les Moonves at upfronts if he didn't renew HIMYM!
http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2007/05/himym-tell-people-what.html
Micheal
January 27, 2013 at 5:02AM EST Reply to CommentWhat the hell with robin. whose friend is she?
dushe. what a canadian. why every american gonna fuk each other at himym? why every girls are so silly with barney he is a golden boy. nowadays people gonna extramarital. so BAD!