Meg Ryan to narrate sequel to How I Met Your Mother

In the spin-off titled How I Met Your Dad, the 52-year-old actress will be telling her kids the story of how she met their father.

Actress Meg Ryan will voice themother in the

spin-off, which unlike the original series will be told from the point of view of the mother.

In the spin-off titled How I Met Your Dad, the 52-year-old actress will be telling her kids the story of how she met their father, reported Ace Showbiz.

, which has yet to receive a series order, was scheduled to film its pilot in LA but will move to New York if it is picked up to series. The spin-off is the brainchild of

creators/executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and Up All Night creator/exec producer Emily Spivey.

They will co-write and executive produce the new series and the trio also come from the same background of working on New York-based late-night shows.

Ryan's last feature film role was in 2009's Serious Moonlight.

She has guest starred in several episodes of Lisa Kudrow's Web Therapy.