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 Jan. 18, 2022 with its first two episodes. The remaining eight episodes will unspool weekly. The big announcement was made by the cast of “How I Met Your Father,” which consists of Hilary Duff, Chris Lowell, Francia Raisa, Tom Ainsley, Tien Tran and Suraj Sharma. As previously reported, “How I Met Your Father” 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 will succeed Bob Saget as narrator (and thus voice an older version of Duff’s Sophie), while Daniel Augustin, Josh Peck and Ashley Reyes are all set to recur.(SD-Agencies) | 