How I Met Your Father is coming to regular television
Hulu seems to love this show so much it'll spend a decade telling its kids how they met
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In a move that’s vaguely reminiscent of when Netflix’s One Day At A Time reboot moved to Pop TV, Hulu’s How I Met Your Father—which is also a reboot of an existing sitcom, though How I Met Your Mother is a lot more recent than the original One Day At A Time was—is going to start airing on Freeform. A more appropriate comparison might be the time TNT, TBS, and TruTV aired episodes of Titans and The Flight Attendant as a plug for HBO Max, though that was at least partially a “we’re desperate for things to put on TV during COVID move.” Either way, How I Met Your Father will soon be airing on Freeform, which is a regular TV network! It comes from a TV cable and not an internet cable like Hulu does! TV is an older kind of technology, as opposed to a newer kind of technology like internet streaming!
Variety says HIMYF will premiere on Freeform on April 25 with the first two episodes of season one, and it will continue to air two episodes every week on Tuesdays until it has run through the whole first season. While a good way to pad out a linear TV schedule, this mostly seems like a major vote of confidence for How I Met Your Father… which has already received at least one other major vote of confidence in the past. Last year, about a month after premiering, Hulu renewed the series for a 20-episode second season, which is a pretty huge number considering how short seasons tend to be for streaming shows. Hell, the first season of this show was only 10 episodes. Basically, Hulu loves HIMYF so much that it’s going to spend a decade telling it’s future kids about how they met.
The series, which stars Hilary Duff, Christopher Lowell, and Kim Cattrall, will continue to air new episodes on Hulu—naturally, since that’s kind of key to the whole “Hulu loves this thing” argument.
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A few weeks back, this gesture of confidence in the show would have gotten a sharp, “This show?!” response from me, despite my watching every episode. However, I think they have finally found what works. The last couple of episodes have been really funny. That’s the show they should let everyone see. But, well, Freeform is only getting season 1. Hopefully people will show the same stubbornness I did and stick with it anyway.
That would be my response too. I slogged through the first season but found the show to be totally bereft of anything actually funny. I started watching the first episode of season 2 but it was as if they’d turned the canned laughter up to 100. Could barely make it through the Kim Catrall intro due to all the laughter at nothing. They had laughing over simple mundane things like picking up a glass of wine. It was just too much and i switched off halfway through the episode.
I was shocked it actually got a second season to begin with.
I don’t think you read my full comment
No i did, i just agree with what you said your original statement would have been. I just haven’t been able to sit through an episode of season 2 at all.
It’s not a reboot, it’s a spin-off
Yes, I was coming to write the same thing.
Meanwhile, the completely finished, in the can Season 4 of Miracle Workers has yet to see the light of day, even though it was scheduled to air in January.
This show is groan inducingly bad. The original show was funnier
The show hasn’t grabbed me the way that HIMYM did back in the day, but the characters are likeable enough, so it makes for good “background TV” if nothing else. Glad more people will get a chance to see it.
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If it doesn’t find an audience on Freeform, it will be turned into0 a sock puppet show and performed for patients in comas at the VA.