With How I Met Your Mother finally coming to end this season, CBS is now looking to expand the TV franchise.

According to Deadline , the network is currently in talks with HIMYM producer 20th Century Fox TV to make a spinoff series with a female bent. Tentatively titled -- surprise! -- How I Met Your Father, the project comes from HIMYM showrunners Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, as well as Up All Night creator Emily Spivey.The pitch is almost a carbon copy of HIMYM -- a group of friends living in New York, one of them searching high and low for their potential soul mate -- but with a female lead instead of a male one, and a completely new group of friends.

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Additionally, rumor has it that this new cast of characters could be introduced in the series finale of How I Met Your Mother, with MacLaren's Pub (the old gang's hangout spot) serving as the environmental link between the two shows.A spinoff certainly makes sense from a ratings standpoint. HIMYM is still CBS's highest-rated Monday-night series and second-highest-rated overall (just behind The Big Bang Theory).After nine seasons of How I Met Your Mother, do you think giving the HIMYM-verse a fresh coat of paint is a good idea? Let us know what you think in the Comments!

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