How I Met Your Mother back for final season

Hit TV comedy HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER's ninth season will be its last.

The show, which stars Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan, has been renewed for a ninth run and creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas have confirmed all will be revealed as the series winds down.

How I Met Your Mother has been one of America's top-rated shows for the past eight years.