Hulu, Deadline reports, has picked up the multi-camera comedy pilot Mid-Century Modern, which stars Tony winner Nathan Lane, Matt Bomer, Nathan Lee Graham, and Tony winner Linda Lavin.
The modern-day Golden Girls follows best friends (played by Lane, Bomer, and Graham) who decide to live together after the death of a fellow friend. They share their Palm Springs residence with Lane's mother, Sybil, played by Lavin.
The new comedy is from Ryan Murphy and Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick; Kohan and Mutchnick penned the pilot, which was directed by James Burrows.
It was previously reported that Bomer will play an intellectually challenged
character who is roommate to the smarter, more sarcastic Lane. Bomer, Hulu adds, plays a former Mormon named Jerry Frank, while Graham plays a fashion industry veteran named Arthur, and Lane plays Bunny Schneiderman, the wealthiest of the three.
The '80s sitcom Golden Girls, which lives on worldwide in syndication, featured a foursome of older women living together in Miami, Florida. That cast was stacked with Broadway favorites, too, including Bea Arthur as Dorothy, Rue McClanahan as Blanche, and Estelle Getty as Sophia plus TV favorite Betty White as Rose. Getty played Arthur's sarcastic Sicilian mother, who was rescued from living at the shady Shady Pines.
Mutchnick and Kohan have made their careers solely in Hollywood thus far, while Murphy was part of the producing team behind Broadway's 2016 revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night and 2018's The Boys in the Band (which co-starred Bomer). Murphy also brought Broadway's The Prom to the screen in a 2020 film adaptation for Netflix.
Co-stars Lane and Bomer will executive produce Mid-Century Modern alongside Mutchnick, Kohan, Burrows, and Murphy. A premiere date has yet to be announced.