One of the season’s most anticipated TV spin-offs is about to arrive in Canada, with “How I Met Your Father” set to make its premiere on Disney+ next week.
15.02.2022 - 20:13 / variety.com
Joe Otterson TV Reporter“How I Met Your Father” has been renewed for Season 2 at Hulu, Variety has learned.The first season of the standalone sequel series to “How I Met Your Mother” debuted on Hulu on Jan. 18 with the first two episodes, with new episodes dropping weekly. The first season will consist of 10 episodes, while Season 2 will consist of 20.Like the original series, “How I Met Your Mother” sees a woman in the year 2050 telling her son the story of how she met his father.
Hilary Duff stars as that woman, Sophie, back in 2022. Sophie and her close-knit group of friends 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. Along with Duff, the series also stars Christopher Lowell, Francia Raisa, Suraj Sharma, Tom Ainsley and Tien Tran.
Kim Cattrall provides the voice of Sophie in 2050.The show hails from writers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, who also serve as executive producers and co-showrunners. Duff serves as a producer in addition to starring. Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, Pam Fryman, and Adam Londy serve as executive producers.
Bays and Thomas created “How I Met Your Mother,” while Fryman directed the vast majority of episodes of that series. 20th Television produces.“Isaac and Elizabeth’s inspired vision for ‘How I Met Your Father’ has proven to be true appointment viewing that fans cannot get enough of week to week,” said Jordan Helman, head of scripted originals for Hulu. “The lives of these characters, as portrayed by the immensely talented cast led by Hilary Duff, are just starting to unfold and we’re thrilled to bring more of this group’s journey to our viewers with a supersized second season.”
.One of the season’s most anticipated TV spin-offs is about to arrive in Canada, with “How I Met Your Father” set to make its premiere on Disney+ next week.
Tiffany Haddish-fronted murder mystery comedy The Afterparty will be back for a second case.
Selome Hailu The mystery continues.Apple TV Plus announced that “The Afterparty” has been renewed for a second season. Tiffany Haddish is confirmed to return in the role of Detective Danner.The series, which hails from Chris Miller and Phil Lord, is a comedic murder mystery where each episode is told in a different genre and from a different character’s perspective. For example, Episode 1 is styled like a romantic comedy, as it follows the narrative of escape room designer Aniq (Sam Richardson), whose primary goal is to reconnect to his high school crush Zoë (Zoë Chao).
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFox’s “Next Level Chef” is ready for, well, its next level. The Gordon Ramsay-fronted cooking competition has been renewed for a second season. Rob Wade, Fox Entertainment’s president, alternative entertainment and specials, announced the pickup on Wednesday.Fox Alternative Entertainment and Studio Ramsay are behind “Next Level Chef,” which takes place on a three-story stage with different kinds of kitchens on each floor.
Gordon Ramsay and gang are running the culinary gauntlet again.
Starz has renewed its critically acclaimed crime drama series Hightown for a third season.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“Hightown” has been renewed for a third season at Starz.The crime drama starring Monica Raymund aired its 10-episode second season between October and December of last year. In the second season of “Hightown,” the picture-perfect version of summer on Cape Cod clashes with its off-season reality.
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There’s a lot of Teen Mom news today!
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EXCLUSIVE: Teen Mom: Family Reunion will return for more drama at MTV, which has renewed the spinoff series for Season 2.
How I Met Your Father that Present Sophie () would hook up with a lot of dudes before settling down with the father of her future son. And it looks like the show will make good on that promise! Hulu just gave the green light to a second, 20-episode season of the sitcom, which follows the dating adventures of 20- and 30-something New Yorkers in the age of Tinder.“[Series writers] Isaac [Aptaker] and Elizabeth [Berger]’s inspired vision for How I Met Your Father has proven to be true appointment viewing that fans cannot get enough of week to week.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe business anthology series “Super Pumped” has been renewed for Season 2 at Showtime.The news was announced as part of the ViacomCBS investor day presentation. Each season of the show will focus on a different major story from the world of business.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“Yellowstone” prequel “1883” has been renewed for Season 2 at Paramount Plus, and the ViacomCBS-owned streaming service has ordered another Taylor Sheridan-created origin-story show following the Dutton Family called “1932.” Yes, you guessed it — the show will follow a new generation of Duttons “during the time of western expansion, Prohibition and the Great Depression.”“1883″ stars Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Billy Bob Thornton, Isabel May, LaMonica Garrett, Marc Rissmann, Audie Rick, Eric Nelsen and James Landry Hébert.The show follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It is a stark retelling of western expansion and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.
Master Chief will stay locked and loaded for Paramount+, which has renewed Halo for a second season. The renewal was unveiled during a ViacomCBS presentation on Tuesday.
Hulu has renewed How I Met Your Father for a second season!!!
Hilary Duff, for a second season, the streaming service announced Tuesday. The series, a pseudo-continuation of the mothership series, launched Jan.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter“South Side” has been renewed for Season 3 at HBO Max.Season 3 of the comedy series will now be the second season of the show to air on HBO Max. Season 1 debuted on Comedy Central in 2019 before the show was sold to HBO Max along with fellow Comedy Central series “The Other Two,” which was picked up for a third season in September.