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"How I Met Your Mother&amp;#039;s Carter Bays has confirmed that the show&amp;#039;s future is still uncertain. It is currently unclear if the CBS sitcom will be picked up for a ninth run, with Bays and co-creator Craig Thomas previously confirming that the show&amp;#039;s team are writing the current eighth season &amp;quot;like it&amp;#039;s the end&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d like [the fate of the show] to be resolved before the New Year, but I&amp;#039;m not sure,&amp;quot; Bays told TV Guide. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s really difficult not knowing, but we&amp;#039;re optimistic and confident that we&amp;#039;ll know soon.&amp;quot; Bays described the ongoing uncertainty as a &amp;quot;weird situation&amp;quot; but admitted that the show&amp;#039;s creative team would be &amp;quot;happy with either&amp;quot; the eighth or ninth season being the show&amp;#039;s last. &amp;quot;We hope it works out for [season nine] because we love working here and we love this job and we do feel like we have some great stories to tell,&amp;quot; he admitted. &amp;quot;But if this is the last season, we&amp;#039;d be able to say it was a well-told story.&amp;quot; How I Met Your Mother continues on Mondays at 8/7c in the US. In the UK, the series airs on E4. &amp;gt; Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson for &amp;#039;How I Met Your Mother&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Rachel Bilson to return to How I Met Your Mother? Watch a clip from How I Met Your Mother below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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