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Renewed: How I Met Your Mother

Good newsfor the CBS sitcom but audiences may not be finding out the identity of the "mother" until 2013.

US sitcom How I Met Your Mother has been renewed by CBS for two more seasons.

That’s the good news. But it also means more audiences may not be finding out the identity of the “mother” until 2013.

The show has still been performing well in its sixth season, averaging around 9.1 million viewers per episode.

The renewal comes at a time when the future of CBS comedy Two and a Half Men remains unclear.

But then Neil Patrick Harris has never likened himself to a rock god from Mars. Not in public anyway.

The series remains a good performer for Seven in Australia.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

24 Responses

  1. A great show.Caught up with a few episodes last year on Live to Air Virgin Blue domestic flight within Australia.
    As long as they keep it as a once a week show for the new episodes and use the older ones as summer filler for whenever Home and Away is off the air All is well.This is way better than 2.5 men

  2. You know its a great shame when you look back at old tv series and even the current ones and how long they have stayed past there used by date.Friends is a classic example and even MASH , that peaked about Season 4 or 5 and was truly over when Frank Burns left , one of the best characters on tv ever.As for HIMYM its ok but its wearing thin so is BBT.

  3. the very last episode will be the reveal of the mother but really, why should we care? I mean Ted isn’t a likeable character, he is so fussy with women and has had many that just weren’t good enough to be ‘the one’ or the mother of his children. this is a show that has dragged on too long, its the kind of story that could have easliy been wrapped up after a few seasons…. not freaking 8!!

    ok at the end we find out who the mother is, So what? how does that make our lives better and complete knowing who she is. once the show is over we can move on and never look back. I have yet to see season 6 but Im sick of the close calls on revealing the mother, they trick us to think someone is the mother but she doesn’t end up being her. season 1 we were led to believe Robin was, I reckon she still could be in the end. all this show was is a journey in someone’s life to find the one, who would have thought this idea would get viewers for one season let alone 8, I hope that season will be the last!!

  4. Great show – v. underrated, because the studio comedy thing is so unfashionable at the moment. But v cleverly written and NPH is outstanding (as is Coby Smulders, despite her truly silly name).

  5. I dismissed this show initially. However a few years back on a long international flight i watched some episodes. Then it just happened that the country I was in had the show on around the same time I got back to my hotel room in the evenings and I quite liked it.

    When i got back to Aus, i went and bought the first few seasons on dvd and yeah it was really good. I now enjoy the show quite a lot. In an ever shrinking landscape of decent shows with episode runs longer than 13 a season, it’s one I always look forward to.

    So yeah, not for everyone, i dismissed it as crap initially, but when i actually sat down to watch it, i fount it to be really entertaining show with good characters.

  6. @ Craig, you can tell which seasons were 50/50 in not being renewed by about February of the following year by the finale episodes, any of the times it’s “unsure” as to whether they will continue they leave us with scenes where certain characters could become the mother.

    -Season 1 Episode 13 (Before the back 9 was approved, we had just met Victoria)
    -Season 1 Finale (Ted & Robin get together for the first time)
    -Season 3 Finale (Ted proposes to Stella)

    Every other time there has been no spot left for a potential mother and Carter & Bays have always promised to leave us with the Mother at the end of the series.

  7. I think it would be great if the mother was introduced before the series ends. To see how the romance develops, how she fits in with the rest of group, etc. I love the show but I have to admit, drawing it out for more than another two years is overkill.

  8. Guys if you don’t like it then don’t watch it and stop complaining!

    I was under the impression for at least the first few years it was a 50/50 guess as to whether the show would be picked up for the next season?

    As long as it rates they will keep the show on and find a way to stretch out the mystery for at least 2 more years. I’m wondering if the writers have a plan on just how long they want the show to go or if they are playing it by the season?

  9. It’s a great show! The creators indicated in Season 1 (or it might have been 2) that they already knew how the series was going to end, so when they are eventually given the news that the series won’t be renewed for another season, they have the series ending ready to go. The implication then was that the mother would be revealed in the last episode, but of course they probably weren’t expecting to still be going six years later, so they might have rethought their original idea.

  10. Ugh, Carter and Bays originally said a seven season run would be perfect. It’s already gone way downhill and has had so little story the past couple of years already.

  11. Good conventional sitcom, but geez they’ve created a rod for their own back with the mother reveal. They’ve either got to wait until the last few episodes to bring her in or they’ll have to introduce a new main character into the series!

  12. I hope this means there will be at least a year of episodes with the Mother as a character, and not just end on the meeting.

    But 2013? I could be dead by then and never find out!

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