How I Met Your Father is an American sitcom created by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger that was released on Hulu from January 18, 2022, until July 11, 2023.

As a frame story, Sophie (Cattrall), in the year 2050, recounts to her unseen son the events that followed meeting his father in January 2022, and how they ultimately had him.

[1] Receiving mixed reviews from critics, How I Met Your Father was ultimately canceled after two seasons in September 2023.

In 2022, on her way to a promising date after a series of failed ones, Sophie meets Uber driver Jesse and his friend Sid.

Following the production of the 2014 CBS pilot How I Met Your Dad, which did not move forward, on December 14, 2016, it was reported that Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger were set to write a new version of the previous spin-off's pilot, re-titled How I Met Your Father, with Carter Bays and Craig Thomas serving as executive producers.

[8] It was later announced that, after signing new contracts with 20th Century Fox Television that would see both Aptaker and Berger being promoted to executive producers and co-showrunners on This Is Us alongside Dan Fogelman, the idea would be put on hold until further notice.

On August 8, 2017, Fox chairman Dana Walden told Deadline Hollywood that 20th Television were attempting a spin-off with different writers, for the third time.

Three days following the announcement, Deadline reported that Alison Bennett would write the spin-off, with the same title as the previous attempt with Aptaker and Berger.

[4] On November 5, 2021, Kim Cattrall was cast in a recurring role as the future version of Duff's character Sophie.

[44] Furthermore, How I Met Your Father was ranked as the twenty-sixth most-watched streaming original television series of 2023, according to Whip Media.