After a lot of fanfare about the casting and production of How I Met Your Dad, CBS revealed their fall lineup this morning without the much-discussed spinoff.
Obviously the big question is: why would CBS leave it off the slate? Buzzfeed editor Jarett Wieselman reported this nugget:
CBS & producers apparently wanted different things, creatively, from "How I Met Your Dad." That's why it wasn't picked up.
Was he referring, perhaps, to the producers wanting to string viewers along for nine seasons, then murder every major character and completely ruin the show forever? Sorry. We’re still a little bitter from the How I Met Your Mother finale.
In any event, all that hemming and hawing about plot and casting decisions was for naught.
Another CBS staple will be saying goodbye this fall, as Two and a Half Menwill mercifully be ending its run:
Next season will be last for '2 and 1/2 Men,' @cbs says, with producer Chuck Lorre creating 'season long event' to send it off
Quite frankly, the end can’t come soon enough. The show has become a complete parody of itself (not that it was all that clever to begin with), making more noise off-screen than on; first there was all the Charlie Sheen drama (and the birth of “winning”), and then the “half man” turned out to be at least half-crazy.
The only intriguing question about this send-off season is if they’ll somehow find a way to bring Sheen’s character back from the dead. Given that it would make for must-watch TV and might make the show legitimately interesting, we’re guessing they won’t do it.
As for the rest of CBS’ fall lineup, it’s a typical mish-mash of bafflingly popular staples like The Big Bang Theory and Mom, procedurals like NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, and NCIS: Topeka (note: only one of those is not a real show), and new shows like Scorpion and CSI: Cyber. The biggest—and likely most popular—addition will be on Thursday nights, where CBS will be airing NFL games throughout the fall.
[via UPROXX]
