Hilary Duff will star in a single-camera comedy series at Hulu titled “Pretty Ugly.”

The show is based on Kirker Butler’s 2015 novel of the same name, and it hails from director Silver Tree, 20th Television and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Butler will also write the series.

Duff will play Miranda Miller, a mother whose mission in life is to make her 10-year-old daughter Bailey the most successful child pageant contestant in America.

“A former teenage pageant queen herself, Miranda dreams of endorsement deals, beauty brands, maybe even a TV show,” reads the logline. “Bailey, however, wants none of it. She’s been doing pageants since she was three months old and is burned out. But Miranda can’t imagine slowing down. In fact, she’s seven months pregnant and already mapping out he

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