How I Met Your Father: Hilary Duff's sitcom gets renewed for second season

How I Met Your Father, starring Hilary Duff, has been renewed for a second season by Hulu. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Season Two of the comedy will have 20 episodes, which is double the number of episodes in the current season. The 20th television series from This Is Us showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger has been picked up midway through season one.

While not a sequel to the similarly titled How I Met Your Mother, which aired on CBS from 2005 to 2014, How I Met Your Father is set in the same New York City as its predecessor: The pilot reveals that two of the show's characters (played by Christopher Lowell and Suraj Sharma) now live in the apartment formerly occupied by Ted, Marshall, and Lily from HIMYM (Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, and Alyson Hannigan).

Hulu Originals' head of scripted content, Jordan Helman, said that Isaac and Elizabeth's inspired vision for How I Met Your Father has proven to be true appointment viewing that fans can't get enough of week after week.

He added that the lives of these characters, as portrayed by an incredibly talented cast led by Hilary Duff, are just beginning to unfold, and we're thrilled to bring more of this group's journey to our viewers with a supersized second season.

Hulu picked up HIMYF for a series last year after several previous versions of the show failed to make CBS' lineup in the years following the end of How I Met Your Mother.

Along with Duff, Lowell, and Sharma, the How I Met Your Father cast also includes Francia Raisa and Tien Tran, and Kim Cattrall plays a future version of Sophie and narrates her love story.

Aptaker and Berger, along with Bays, Thomas, director Pam Fryman, and Adam Londy, serve as executive producers. Duff works as a producer. The pilot for the show was also written by Bays, Thomas, and Spivey.