How I Met Your Father Gets January Premiere Date on Hulu — Watch Video
The story of How I Met Your Father is about to get underway.
Hulu announced Wednesday that the How I Met Your Mother offshoot is set to premiere on Tuesday, Jan. 18, with its first two episodes. The remaining eight episodes will unspool weekly.
The big announcement was made by the cast of HIMYF — which consists of Hilary Duff, Chris Lowell, Francia Raisa, Tom Ainsley, Tien Tran and Suraj Sharma — in the above video, which borrows a few signature Barney Stinson catchphrases to tee up the premiere date news.
As previously reported, HIMYF takes place in the near future, as Sophie (Duff) tells her son the story of how she met his father. The retelling “catapults us back to the year 2021, where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends — Jesse (Lowell), Valentina (Raisa), Charlie (Ainsley), Ellen (Tran) and Sid (Sharma) — are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options,” according to the official logline.
Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City) will succeed Bob Saget as narrator (and thus voice an older version of Duff’s Sophie), while Daniel Augustin (David Makes Man), Josh Peck (Drake & Josh) and Ashley Reyes (American Gods) are all set to recur.
Watch the video announcement above, then hit the comments and tell us if you’re looking forward to How I Met Your Father.
I don’t get why the cast are so old it doesn’t make sense and she still hasn’t met the father
As far as the age, I’m pretty sure it’s because they had to cast Hillary Duff as this show was Disney’s concession to her for not going forward with the Lizzie McGuire continuation.
A lot of 30 year olds are still figuring it out nowadays.
People are getting married and having kids much later in life nowadays, I’m 28 and a lot of people my age still live with their parents. I moved out years ago, but I’m not married with kids yet. There is no longer a rush to move out, get married and have kids so soon after high school like there used to be.
I’m not sure what the characters ages are supposed to be, but Josh Radnor was 31 when HIMYM started to air, Hilary is 34…not that big of a difference.
Well you know old for a woman. Who can still easily pass as 28. Maybe that’ll make people feel better.
Because people are smart and wait to have kids.
Yeah very interesting that this cast age’s are MUCH older than where HIMYM started and yet still “figuring it all out and finding themselves”…. 30 really is the new 20!!
Much older? HIMYM characters were 27 in the pilot.
Yeah, I’m just curious what age the new characters will be with this next generation — Hilary Duff is the youngest one of the new cast and she’s 34 so…. mid 30s vs mid 20s. Also, Josh Radnor was 31 at pilot but was also the oldest one — Jason Segel was 25 and Cobie Smulders was 23….
Anyway very excited for HIMYF! Hope it will be even better and more interesting than the original!
Actor age and character age are not the same you know?
Gabrielle Curtis was 33 and played a 16 year old on screen.
Estelle Getty played Bea Arthur’s mother when she was actually younger than her
How do we know they are older? They could pass in the 20’s.
Most of the cast is in their late 20s or early 30s, but Chris Lowell is 37. That really is kind of up there to just be “figuring out who he is and what he wants out of life.”
I’ll definitely be binging this series after it ends – assuming it doesn’t end with such a colossally absurd twist as the on-again-off-again central couple that actually managed to pull off a realistic ending in the “off” position doing a whiplashingly inappropriate sudden shift back into “on” in the last few seconds of the final episode.