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"How I Met Your Mother co-creator Craig Thomas has revealed that the show has still not officially been picked up for a ninth season. News broke of the sitcom&amp;#039;s renewal back in December, but CBS is yet to confirm the new season order.  &amp;quot;A deal like this is a big deal,&amp;quot; Thomas told reporters. &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t want to get ahead of ourselves.&amp;quot; How I Met Your Mother was expected to conclude at the end of its eighth season, but a ninth run was reportedly commissioned following a last-minute change of heart from star Jason Segel. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;d be surprised if a deal weren&amp;#039;t done shortly and we didn&amp;#039;t have an announcement to make pretty soon,&amp;quot; Thomas added. &amp;quot;So we feel confident about it, but we&amp;#039;re still waiting.&amp;quot; It was recently reported that How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders is in talks to reprise her Avengers film role in Joss Whedon&amp;#039;s TV spinoff series S.H.I.E.L.D. Season eight of How I Met Your Mother continues on Mondays at 8/7c on CBS, while new episodes will debut in the UK tomorrow night (January 31) on E4. &amp;gt; James Van Der Beek returning to How I Met Your Mother Watch a promo for the next US How I Met Your Mother episode below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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