Your First Look at Matt Bomer and Nathan Lane in the New ‘Golden Girls’-Inspired Sitcom ‘Mid-Century Modern’

As previously reported, Matt Bomer and Nathan Lane are set to star in a new film produced by Ryan Murphy. Daddy’s Girls sitcom inspired for Hulu. Mid-Century Modern comes from Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, creators of Will and Grace.

Yesterday, her co-star Linda Lavin posted a photo of the cast on set and a brief video clip of the cast enjoying the audience’s applause.

“Throwback to last Thursday night when we filmed this amazing pilot, Mid-Century Modern for @hulu at 20th Century Fox!!,” Lavin said. “Starring the legendary Nathan Lane, @mattbomer @nathanleegraham and @misscocoperu, created by the brilliant team of Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, and directed by the one and only amazing @therealjamesburrows!!”

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What is Mid-Century Modern about?

According to Variety, Bomer (Fellow Travelers) will play a ditzy character reminiscent of Rose in Daddy’s Girls. Lane will be more of a Dorothy character. Lavin will play Lane’s mother.

“The series follows three best friends – older gay men – who, after an unexpected death, decide to spend their golden years living together in Palm Springs, where the richest one lives with his mother and a naked Gen Z housekeeper,” Hulu said in a statement.

“Mid-Century Modern” stars Nathan Lane as Bunny Schneiderman, Matt Bomer as Jerry Frank and Linda Lavin as Bunny’s mother, Sybil Schneiderman.

“A successful retired businessman, Bunny is still looking for love, but he must first be convinced that he is worthy of it. Like her son, Sybil’s strengths are her weaknesses: she is wise, caring, and iconoclastic—which sometimes means she is judgmental, stifling, and amoral. Jerry left the Mormon Church and his marriage in his early twenties after his wife informed him and the rest of the congregation that he was gay. Now a literal Latter-day Saint, Jerry is pure of heart. He is also tough in body and soft in mind.”

Lavin, 86, has a long list of Broadway and television credits to her name dating back to the late 1960s. She is probably best known for starring in the sitcom, Alice (1976-1985).

Although this is only a pilot episode, many people on Lavin’s Instagram have expressed hope that the show will be picked up for a season. There’s certainly a wealth of talent in front of and behind the camera!

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