Two of the most powerful names in gay television are teaming up for a new comedy series.
Variety announced that Mid-Century Modern, a multi-cam series for Hulu executive produced by Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story) and created by Will & Grace‘s Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, will soon be available for streaming.
Mid-Century Modern will be a Golden Girls-inspired comedy brought to life by a team with loving energy to the iconic series. Matt Bomer and Nathan Lane are set to star; Bomer will take on the ditzy Rose (Betty White) character, and Lane will take on the Dorothy (Bea Arthur) role. Linda Lavin will join the series as Lane’s mother, much like Sophia (Estelle Getty).
“The series follows three best friends — gay gentlemen of a certain age – who, after an unexpected death, decide to spend their golden years living together in Palm Springs where the wealthiest one lives with his mother and a naked Gen Z housekeeper,” Hulu says in a release.
Per the outlet, Nathan Lane stars Bunny Schneiderman; Matt Bomer will play Jerry Frank, and Linda Lavin as Sybil Schneiderman, Bunny’s mother.
The series will take place in Palm Springs and sees “a successful businessman with one foot in retirement, Bunny is forever in search of love, but he first has to be convinced he’s worthy of it. Like her son, Sybil’s strengths are her weaknesses: wise, caring, and iconoclastic – which sometimes means she’s critical, smothering, and amoral. Jerry left the Mormon Church and his marriage in his early 20s after his wife informed him and the rest of the congregation that he was a homosexual. Now a latter-day saint in the literal sense of the term, Jerry is pure of heart. He is also hard of body and soft of head.”
James Burrows will direct the pilot for Mid-Century Modern.
