‘How I Met Your Dad’ [UPDATE]: Will The ‘HIMYM’ Spin-Off Survive After Director Joins CBS’ ‘The McCarthys’?

The last we heard of "How I Met Your Dad," CBS had decided not to pick up the "HIMYM" spin-off and it was being shopped to other networks. A new update reveals that the director of "How I Met Your Mother" has decided not to stay for "How I Met Your Dad." Can the spin-off survive without CBS and director Pamela Fryman?

According to Cartermatt.com, Deadline recently reported that "How I Met Your Dad' is still alive and kicking, though it may undergo some creative changes when a network picks it up. So don't fear, eager fans - there's still hope for the "HIMYM" spin-off.

However, "How I Met Your Mother" director and executive producer Pamela Fryman will no longer be connected to the project. She was pulled away from the new series due to a "family emergency" and since then has joined the CBS comedy "The McCarthys," Cartermatt.com reports.

Greta Gerwig will still star as the lead, and "HIMYM" executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas are still on board "How I Met Your Dad," so it looks like it still has the potential to be a success.

"It's going to be different than the original," Gerwig told Vulture earlier this year. "When the premise of the show is that it's a young man looking for his true love, it's a very different feeling than a young woman looking for her true love. Craig Thomas and Carter Bays [the 'HIMYM' creators] are making it too, and Emily Spivey is so funny and great. She wrote for 'SNL' for a long time, and wrote the show 'Up All Night,' and I'm in love with her."

Deadline reports that the comedy could be picked up as an online exclusive on Netflix, but that broadcast networks FOX and NBC are also eyeing the pilot.

CBS entertainment chairman Nina Tassler explained why they passed on picking up "How I Met Your Dad."

"There were elements on the pilot that didn't work out," Tassler told reporters. "We tried to work out about redoing the pilot. That's not happening right now. Sometimes you run into these kind of issues and you hope they can resolve themselves in that time frame."

She continued: "I'm heartsick; we loved this brand and we love the producers but it didn't work out," Tassler said, adding that the network felt that "repiloting was in the best interest of protecting the creative elements of the show."