Could How I Met Your Mother live on in some form afterviewers finally meet the Mother?

TVLine tossed that provocative question out to executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas at an intimate lunch the pair hosted for a handful of news outlets on Wednesday. Their response? It’s not out of the realm of possibility.

“That’s come up,” Bays said of a spinoff that would allow them to bring current Mother mystery arc to a satisfying conclusion  — perhaps at the end of Season 8 — and then possibly relaunch the show with a slightly tweaked premise and title (i.e. What Happened After I Met Your Mother).
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Following a multinetwork bidding war, Fox has given a pilot production commitment to a single-camera comedy from How I Met Your Mother’s Carter Bays, Craig Thomas and Chris Harris.

The project, The Goodwin Games, hails from 20th Century Fox Television and will be written by How I Met Your Mother co-creators/executive producers Bays & Thomas, as well as executive producer Harris.

Goodwin Games revolves around three siblings who reconnect after the death of their father.

When we last left our heroes at How I Met Your Mother, Marshall and Lily found out they were (finally) going to have a baby, Barney realized he really wanted to make a go with Nora, and Ted (thankfully) had broken up with the evil Zoe. To get you up to speed on all things HIMYM before its hour-long season-seven opener on September 19 (two new episodes back-to-back), Vulture caught up with creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and grilled them on the status of the characters this year. In the process, they revealed a big upcoming plot twist (there’s a promiscuous pumpkin involved) and talked about getting ready to finally reveal just how the hell Ted met his mate. Lees snel verder!

So for months, many fans and online outlets have been focused on the question of whose wedding we’ll see in the finale. And then, boom! You and Craig pulled a fast one with the revelation that Lily’s preggers, even as you also told us that Barney would eventually be getting hitched. Which was the bigger bombshell in the scheme of things?
Carter Bays: The pregnacy is definitely the big one for us in terms of where the story’s going. Finding out Barney’s the groom is big. But in terms of next season, [the pregnancy] is the game changer. And it feels personal for me, since my wife is eight months pregnant.

Did you always plan on having the pregnancy reveal at the end of the season?
Bays: This was definitely always in the cards since we plotted out this season. We weighed all the pros and cons of adding a baby. And then we wanted to tell a story that involved Marshall going through hell [before]. We wanted a happy ending. We structured it so there’d be this built-in silver lining after losing his dad. In the end, the story was about generations, of life moving on.

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