Looks like TV may be ready to tell viewers another incredible story: 20th Television is giving a How I Met Your Mother spin-off another shot.

CBS’s original nine-season series centered on five friends (played by Josh Radnor, Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris, and Cobie Smulders) and told the convoluted story of how Ted (Radnor) first met the mother of his children. After a first attempted spin-off in 2014 that never got picked up titled How I Met Your Dad, The Hollywood Reporter says that 20th is taking a second stab with How I Met Your Father—and has entrusted the project to This Is Us writers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger.

As one might guess from the name, How I Met Your Father will be a new story with a similar premise. This time, the series will be narrated by a woman explaining how she met the father of her children. The 2014 pilot, which failed to get picked up, starred Greta Gerwig in the leading Josh Radnor/”Ted” role, with narration from Meg Ryan in place of Bob Saget.

Aptaker and Berger, whose NBC series has become one of fall TV’s buzziest breakouts, will executive produce alongside original series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, T.H.R. reports. But because Bays and Thomas have an overall deal with Sony Television, they will mostly be hands-off—leaving Aptaker and Berger to steer the ship.

Luckily, Aptaker and Berger might just have the perfect touch for the job. Though This Is Us skews more earnest than HIMYM normally did, its writers have proven they know exactly how to blend dark comedy and raw emotion—a skill that will surely prove useful if the spin-off wraps up in an even remotely similar fashion to the original. (Though, given fans’ reaction to HIMYM’s ending, the new series might want to end on a slightly different note.)

So, here’s hoping this spin-off fares better than its predecessor. After all, the original show is now legen—yes, sorry, we’re still doing this— . . . wait for it . . . dary.