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8 Intriguing TV Spinoffs That Never Happened

When television spinoffs go right, they can succeed with flying colours. Just ask Frasier or The Flash, both of which were spawned from perfectly popular series but then managed to outshine their parent shows in most viewers’ hearts (Cheers and Arrow, respectively).

5) How I Met Your Dad

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After the finale of long-running favourite How I Met Your Mother managed to offend most of the sitcom’s many fans, the show’s creators were really keen on appeasing the viewers by giving them a spinoff.

Rather than a conventional off-shoot featuring familiar characters, How I Met Your Dad would have been independent from HIMYM. The link would have been that it gender-swapped the premise – with Sally recounting how she met her children’s father.

A pilot was made with Greta Gerwig in the lead (and Meg Ryan voicing older Sally in the wraparounds). Unfortunately, CBS and co-creators Carter Bays, Craig Thomas and Emily Spivey disagreed on the direction of the show. While the network wanted to reshoot the pilot with a new cast, the creators wanted a guaranteed full-season order first. Neither backed down and so, we never found out how those kids met their dad.