The first official How I Met Your Father trailer for the Hilary Duff reboot sitcom has dropped today. The series is a standalone follow-up to the long-running CBS series How I Met Your Mother, which ran from 2005 to 2014 and starred Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, and Alyson Hannigan. The series followed the romantic exploits of Ted Mosby (Radnor) through the framing device of him telling his future children the story of how he and their mother first met. Although the How I Met Your Mother finale, which aired in 2014, was not well received by fans or critics, the show overall was generally beloved.
How I Met Your Father is a gender-swapped update of the same premise, featuring Kim Cattrall (who is conspicuously absent from this year's other reboot of a popular series, And Just Like That) as an older version of Duff's Sophie, telling her kids how she came to meet their father. The series also stars Chris Lowell, Francia Raisa, Tom Ainsley, Tien Tran, and Suraj Sharma as Sophie's group of friends supporting her search for love in New York City. How I Met Your Father will premiere exclusively on Hulu on January 18, 2022.
Today, Hulu shared the brand new How I Met Your Father trailer, giving fans their first glimpse at Duff and her friends in action. Scored to the classic song "Sooner or Later" by The Grass Roots, the trailer gives a brief overview of the new wacky characters that viewers will encounter in the show. In addition, the clip gives a brief summation of the many, many disastrous encounters Sophie will have in the New York dating scene. Check out the How I Met Your Father trailer below:
How I Met Your Father was created by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, two writers from the hit NBC drama This Is Us. They took on the project in 2016 after the 2014 pilot How I Met Your Dad, which starred Greta Gerwig, Drew Tarver, Nicholas D'Agosto, and Meg Ryan, failed to get picked up to series. Finally, after years of scheduling conflicts and developments, production on HIMYF began in August of this year.
It remains to be seen if How I Met Your Father can capture the spark that the original series did. The concept was fresh and never-before-seen on network television when it first premiered on CBS, but that was over 15 years ago. However, armed with an exciting and diverse cast, the new series is certainly set up to give it a good shot.
Source: Hulu