Remember? She was Lizzie Maguire? No? OK.

The actress has taken some time out of her career recently to focus on her marriage to Mike Comrie and their five-month-old son Luca but is thrilled to have signed a development deal with 20th Century Fox which will see her make her small screen return.

Hilary tweeted: "Ok it's official! Very excited about my development deal with 20th century fox!! t.v. here I come! :)" (sic)

According to Deadline, the generous deal states the studio must develop a half-hour episodic sitcom for Hilary, but if it falls through Fox has to cast her in another comedy or drama series. So she's going to be on telly no matter what.

For those of you obsessed with monitoring baby weight and the loss of it (loads of people must be, there's pages of magazines devoted to it), Hilary recently revealed she is in no rush to lose her it and is enjoying the 'free pass' motherhood has given her to eat what she likes.

She said: "I am working out and I'm trying and I'm trying not to [obsess]. Everyone wants their body back, but all in time. It took nine months to get there and so hopefully, it won't take that long to get it off, but I'm doing it slowly."