The female version of CBS hit "How I Met Your Mother" is officially in the works, Entertainment Weekly reported.
CBS and 20th-Century Fox have moved forward with the spin-off, which will be titled "How I Met Your Dad," with an order for a pilot.
The show was first reported as a possibility late last month, as "How I Met Your Mother" nears its close.
The standalone pilot for "How I Met Your Dad" will come from writer and executive producer Emily Spivey and "How I Met Your Mother" creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas.
The new sitcom will have a different story and set of characters; CBS has not confirmed plans to introduce these in the "How I Met Your Mother" finale.
Originally pitched as "How I Met Your Father," the new female-led sitcom will also feature a group of friends in New York. The half-hour comedy will document the main character's journey to find her future husband, and scenes could take place in MacLaren's Pub, the main hangout for "How I Met Your Mother" characters.
Thomas had earlier told Entertainment Weekly, "There's a world where the universe of the show can keep existing in a way that feels coherent to what's come before, but new enough to be worth watching."
The idea has already received some criticism. Jezebel recently featured a post called "Why 'How I Met Your Father' Will Be a Boring Show."
The concept was already cliche, the outlet said.
"[Ted] was so dedicated to finding his one true love, despite all his 'slutty' adventures, that he often came off as cloying and desperate. These are two behaviors that wouldn't be allowed for whatever female character replaced Ted in the role of person seeking their perfect person," the post read. "It was often hard to find Ted likable; it'd be even harder for an audience to learn to like a woman as frustratingly obsessive about finding her mate as he was."
TIME also featured an editorial called "Please Do Not Make a 'How I Met Your Mother' spinoff."
"What the idea sounds like, frankly, is less a spinoff than plain old unimaginative development--let's do another version of something that's worked before!--dressed up as a new concept," wrote TIME television critic James Poniewozik.
The show featuring Josh Radnor as Ted on the search for his soulmate has done well in its ninth and final season, performing as the No. 1 Monday night comedy for CBS. Coming up after ratings giant "Big Bang Theory," the show has also been the No. 2 comedy across all nights.
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