Matt Bomer and Nathan Lane to Star in Golden Girls-esque Hulu Pilot from Ryan Murphy and Will & Grace EPs (2024)

Bomer is much too old to be the Gen Z naked housekeeper and too young to be a living his golden years in retirement.

[quote]He is also hard of body and soft of head.”

Bomer is Rose or a combo Rose and Blanche?

I thought this was funny from "Terryt" in the comments section of the TVLine article:

[quote]Does the young housekeeper disappear after the pilot? RIP Coco

[quote]The series, which is loosely inspired by The Golden Girls, “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,” according to the official logline.

So who's going to play the naked housekeeper? My money is on Lukas Gage.

The housekeeper can be any of Murphy's standard stable of himbos.

[quote]gay gentlemen of a certain age – who, after an unexpected death, decide to spend their golden years living together in Palm Springs

I'm now thinking that Bomer will play the partner of the "unexpected death" which is how he's connected to Lane and the other guy.

Let's cast the third friend. Victor Garber is the right age. Matthew Broderick would be interesting.

The third friend is going to be a vain, over-sexed Blanche type, as Lane is clearly the mordant, self-effacing Dorothy stand-in and Bomer is the sweet but dim Rose role.

It’ll be tricky to cast “the sexy one” next to someone as arrestingly beautiful as Matt Bomer. Maybe Ricky Martin? Murray Bartlett?

Gay men are planning a re boot of a show that has been basically kept alive by other gay men.

Ryan Murphy, misreading the room again, has chosen the much hated Linda Lavin to star.

Well I guess that proves two things. Miss Murphy does not play here on DL and Rita Moreno said no.

Thank God Bea is dead.

[quote]This sounds beneath Bomer. His career right now is pretty hot, he shouldn't be doing some hack sitcom for Hulu.

After Fellow Travelers, his career seems to be going well.

Is his partner actually financially successful or did he simply hit the trifecta of a hot, younger, successful partner while he was too young and inexperienced to know better? Are they living on Bomer's money, so he needs to keep working? Bomer is not pulling multi-million dollar paydays, so if they're living on his money, he needs to keep working.

[quote]Maybe he's hot to work with a gay daddy like Nathan?

Nathan Lane is a disgusting drunken troll.

He hit on me back in my twink days, 20 years ago, at the old Works bar on the UWS. He was so drunk he was barely able to stand upright and he was completely gross.

[quote]Linda Lavin?! The Datalounge is about to explode.

DL's epic Linda Lavin threads never disappoint. They're always a scream.

r23/24 I think you're both correct. Matt is the breadwinner and they have three teenagers. They have homes in NY and LA. That all costs a ton of $$$$.

And Bomer has never had a franchise that could set him up for life like the Marvel actors etc. He needs to work.

[quote]Let's cast the third friend.

Julian Morris

[quote]Let's cast the third friend.

I’m available and willing to relocate from Baltimore for this.

[quote]follows three best friends — gay gentlemen of a certain age

Whoever they cast as the two besties will probably have to be openly gay, otherwise people will bitch about casting straights in gay roles. And at least one of them will have to be a POC. And they can't be anyone who'll outshine Nathan Lane.

[quote]How was Linda Lavin cast in this part? There have to be at least a handful of MUCH more appealing character actresses in that age group.

Because DL was once put on the list of "influential" gay sites, so whenever people want to know "what gay people think." they come to DL. DL is literally the target audience for this show.

Your incessant yammering on about both Golden Girls and Linda Lavin have wrought this.

[quote]Who’s a good, out non-white actor who can do comedy?

Reginald VelJohnson?

This is a very bizarre casting. Shocking actually.

A) Bomer is 46 and was getting a career revival. 46 is a sensitive age for an actor and this concept is degrading.

B) Three camera is dead.

C) Bomer has done three camera on Will and Grace. He was bad.

D) The timing of this appears to be purposefully humiliating as he is in the middle of a competitive FYC campaign for Drama.

E) Jonathan Bailey his costar is having a gangbusters moment which makes it even more humiliating.

F) a visibly depressed Bomer has been moping around Milan (below). I thought he had gotten another round of overdone face work but he may actually be depressed.

G) Even in the event that Bomer WANTED to do a three camera sitcom, it would be hard to believe he would not be able to get a sitcom conceived for him, instead of starring alongside Nathan Lane who sucks all the air out of a room.

H) Bomer was just last week touting a White Collar revival.

I) Max Mutchnick & David Kohan struck lightning in a bottle with Will and Grace and nothing they have done since has worked. This casting is pretty analogous to the casting of non-comic Brandon Routh in their failed ensemble piece, Partners.

and now I want to point out the most important part of this story which is unreported.

[bold]Nathan Lane, Ryan Murphy, Max Mutchnik and David Kohan are Simon Halls’s clients.

Bomer is doing this as a FAVOR.[/bold]

There was probably some time constraint, an option was going to expire, something last minute and they needed ONE name to step in and shoot the pilot and he said yes.

Three eldergays who have more money than God have decided it was necessary to derail an FYC campaign which a lot of people are working very hard on and which Bomer has a very good chance of winning, for a project that was very personal to him and an enormous creative risk, so they can make a little bit more money. For a garbage sitcom no one wants with extremely niche appeal on a streamer that has never hosted a successful three camera sitcom. THERE HAS NOT BEEN A SUCCESSFUL THREE CAMERA SITCOM ANYWHERE IN YEARS.

It was obvious to anyone with a pulse that Bomer and Bailey were having an affair during Fellow Travellers. I was shocked Bomer chose to stay in his marriage to a husband 14 years his senior when a stud 11 years his junior was making a play for him. His children were largely grown. The universe which had denied him many things because of his sexuality had decided to throw him a ripped, hairychested English top and he walked away to return to a man who looks like Roddy McDowell in Fright Night.

And now he is doing a sitcom. A Golden Girls-type sitcom. At 46.

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[bold]Duckling.[/bold]

Please tell me that Linda Lavin is singing the theme song.

"There's a new girl in town with a brand new style"

R77 in the old network situation, perhaps, but streamers would likely have flexibility, and Bomer's at a level where he could negotiate that.

A second tier performer, not so much.

LINDA hums while dusting the house: "Ba-da-doo-ba-DAAAH ... "

NATHAN: "My mother. The scat queen."

AUDIENCE laughs hysterically.

[quote] It’ll be tricky to cast “the sexy one” next to someone as arrestingly beautiful as Matt Bomer.

🙄

This is not a Ryan Murphy production. This must be a misprint.

Not one under-qualified, unattractive nepo baby in sight for him to live his delusional fantasies through.

[quote]Sitcom legend James Burrows will direct the pilot and serve as an executive producer, alongside Mutchnick, Kohan, Burrows, Lane, Bomer and Murphy.

Linda knew this show is a turkey and decided to take full salary rather than equity stake and a producer credit. It will never rack up enough episodes for rerun syndication. And Lane has bombed in every show where he was lead.

MATT, to LINDA: " ... and that was just the prelude."

NATHAN: "Who's pre-lubed?"

SASSY HOUSEBOY: "Based on what I found when I changed your sheets this morning, it's all three of you bitches!"

AUDIENCE laughs hysterically.

[quote]I'd cast a Frasier's dad type.

John Larroquette’s sarcasm to Nathan’s prissy would work.

[quote]John Larroquette’s sarcasm to Nathan’s prissy would work.

That would be good, but I can't imagine him playing gay.

Something does not make sense.

The announcement was made while Bomer was out of the country.

[quote]Sources reveal that Bomer will take on the ditzy Rose-like character, played by Betty White in the original “Golden Girls,” with Lane taking on the Dorothy (Bea Arthur) of the bunch. Linda Lavin will play Lane’s mother, a la the original Sophia.

They would not be able to say this unless they bought the rights to the Golden Girls. They are literally saying this character is Rose, this character is Dorothy. They would have had to buy the rights to do this. No one would be stupid enough to buy the rights to something that was not an exact remake of the Golden Girls. They would not be able to say this in a press release.

[bold]Bomer filed for divorce. This was retaliatory misinformation intended to humiliate him during his Emmy campaign. This is exactly how a publicist would get revenge.[/bold]

Who is playing the Southern slu*t Blanche?

It must be a POC trans person.

[quote] Who is playing the Southern slu*t Blanche?

You rang, bitches?

Are Jack Plotnick and Tim Bagley busy?

How about Coco and Varla?

[quote] Sources reveal that Bomer will take on the ditzy Rose-like character, played by Betty White in the original “Golden Girls,” with Lane taking on the Dorothy (Bea Arthur) of the bunch. Linda Lavin will play Lane’s mother, a la the original Sophia.

They could not say this unless they bought the rights.

[bold]Jerry is pure of heart. He is also hard of body and soft of head.[/bold]

This is what gives it away. It is so flagrantly mean.

Look at the character names. Bunny Schneiderman. Sybil Schneiderman. This is not a real show. If this was real, it would be so astoundingly stupid no one would buy it.

Nathan Lane is Simon Halls’s oldest client. No one would center a television show around Nathan Lane. No one has since Encore Encore.

[quote]The universe which had denied him many things because of his sexuality had decided to throw him a ripped, hairychested English top

Bomer strikes me as versatile, and "anything to please you in bed" kind of guy. "Let's take turns on each other. But you can come in me first."

Versatile is the hottest.

R109 because you are stupid and just bought that this was happening

They also wouldn’t have announced the pilot order without the remaining principal cast.

On December 22nd pictures of a stern looking Halls and a distressed Bomer were posted on JustJared. JustJared is the most publicist friendly celebrity news site - everything is PR sanctioned.

Now if you go to the webpage, the thumbnails for the full sized images have been removed.

Now Bomer ends it and gets thru Winter FYC and awards season.

But there was always going to be Emmy FYC. Now. And last week they released a very beautiful shoot for Emmy magazine. Maybe it was shot a month earlier.

Now if the pilot announcement was bogus and intended to humiliate Bomer it touches upon several themes

#1. That Bomer would always be dependent on Simon Halls for work and would never be able to do anything by himself. And it is true that Bomer relied heavily on Simon Halls’s clients for work, even if the work was unflattering, like many of the Ryan Murphy roles and his role on Will & Grace.

#2. That Bomer can only play gay roles and has to accept whatever is offered. Bomer himself said this was a sore spot for him the past week when he talked about not being cast in Superman because they found out he was gay. He also turned down Barbie because it was an insubstantial token gay role.

#3. That Bomer is terrified of aging. This anyone could glean from the amount of face work he gets and he doesn’t let himself go grey.

#4. That Bomer was a limited actor. He could not do multicamera (live audience) comedy.

“hard of body and soft of head.”

#5. That Bomer offered a ripped body and little else.

#6. Soft in the head = “Mentally deficient; also, silly, foolish. For example, He's nice enough but a bit soft in the head . The soft in this idiom, first recorded in 1775, alludes to a weakness in mental capacity.” Bomer is not known to be stupid. But it is highly likely he is neurodivergent.

Bomer, who was on a career upswing and closer than ever before to getting a White Collar revival and an Emmy, would suddenly accept a role in something that covered the gamut of his insecurities? While he is out of the country? One week after saying he was going to do something else?

This show sounds like one of the fake shows on 30 Rock. Midcentury Modern? How the f*ck do you even market that?

And finally,

Linda Lavin was thrown into the fake story because Simon Halls knows the only place somebody would pick up on the inconsistencies of the story and state them out loud is someplace like here, so if he threw in an old actress from the seventies, knowing any discussion about the show would be derailed by old gay man reminiscing about sitcom actresses from the past. Which it almost was until I showed up at r71.

Actually one more thing because the ADHD is still going on four cylinders.

The story wants you to accept that the most logical buyer of a White Collar revival, Hulu, would in fact say, “No, we don’t want that, we want Matt Bomer in a Nathan Lane multicamera sitcom.”

[bold]Hulu has never aired an original multicamera sitcom. Ever. Not once. No one would ever pitch a multicamera sitcom to them because they would never order it.[/bold]

Thank God tomorrow is Juneteenth.

[QUOTE] How was Linda Lavin cast in this part? There have to be at least a handful of MUCH more appealing character actresses in that age group.

Michele Lee as the yenta granny? Her old soap is still popular among the gays of a certain age, and she's not nearly as grating as Lavin. It would be fun to see her and Lane each trying to out-ham the other.

What reputation? All the trades are owned by a single company, Penske media.

90% of everything that is in Variety, THR and Deadline is regurgitated press releases.

If this is wrong and was a prank (and there have been many pranks over the years, like the Father of the Bride sequel with the gay wedding Nikki Finke republished), THR and Deadline will simply pass the blame onto Variety and Variety will pass the blame onto the person who reported it, Marc Malkin:

[quote] It’s not “The Golden Girls,” but get ready for a new, even gayer roommate sitcom. I can exclusively report that Matt Bomer and Nathan Lane are set to star in “Mid-Century Modern,” a multi-cam series for Hulu executive produced by Ryan Murphy and created by “Will & Grace’s” Max Mutchnick and David Kohan. Sources reveal that Bomer will take on the ditzy Rose-like character, played by Betty White in the original “Golden Girls,” with Lane taking on the Dorothy (Bea Arthur) of the bunch. Linda Lavin will play Lane’s mother, a la the original Sophia.

Marc Malkin is a pathetic gay minstrel show who dresses like a someone who teaches children how to brush their teeth on Nickelodeon. Variety would be glad to get rid of him. Everything Marc Malkin does can be written by AI now.

[bold]This is how new show announcements are handled in the trades. They are very officious, written like the dispassionate truth. No “I can exclusively report” and “Sources reveal.”[/bold]

Tatiana Maslany Dark Comedy Pilot ‘The Nightbeast’ Set at Amazon MGM Studios

Amazon MGM Studios has given a pilot order to “The Nightbeast,” a horror comedy starring Tatiana Maslany.

In “The Nightbeast,” per the official logline, “a young mother unsatisfied with her seemingly perfect suburban life begins an affair with the boogeyman in her son’s closet — a surprisingly sexy man called the Nightbeast. But this harmless affair she thought to be a figment of her imagination begins to have unexpected consequences, as her two worlds increasingly begin to collide in this seductive, darkly comedic tale.”

Leah Rachel and Travis Jackson serve as creators of “The Nightbeast” Executive producers include Peter Warren; Justin Levy, Fred Berger and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones for Range Studios’ Station26; Kristen Campo for Campout; and Jamie Babbit, who also serves as director. Maslany serves as a producer in addition to starring.

If this were fake, why wouldn't Bomer, Lane, Lavin, Murphy or Max Mutchnick and David Kohan simply deny it?

I can't imagine that they'd all simply stay quiet since the only reason to do so would be to test the waters to see whether folks are actually interested in such a steaming pile of crap.

I'm not saying it's real or fake. I'm suggesting that there are a lot of oddities about such an announcement that seem to defy common sense.

And another thing

[bold]A four hander would not be ordered to pilot without all the roles cast. There would be no point.[/bold]

Even White Collar was not ordered until they cast Tim DeKay. These things are cast contingent. ESPECIALLY for something which wants to be like The Golden Girls which was entirely chemistry based. Ordering to pilot means they have something they are ready to prepare to shoot.

Speaking of chemistry

In what universe would you put Matt Bomer against Nathan Lane, who unhinges his jaw and swallows sets whole, including makeup and wardrobe?

They would NEVER pass a chemistry test. When you put Bomer up against big personalities he falls to the wayside. That was why he faded into the woodwork in Magic Mike and The Boys in the Band. The only thing you can say about his characters is that he was in them and he took off his pants.

If you build something around him he’s fine, if you put him in a two hander with someone he has chemistry with he’s fine, if you put with strong personalities who do things better than he does like broad comedy he becomes a nonentity. He did not work in Will & Grace at all, had no chemistry with McCormack and was a punchline based on his looks. No one who saw him on that show would say, “Yes, more of that, please.”

[quote]and he doesn’t let himself go grey.

Some men don't go grey in middle age. I'm more or less the same age as Bomer and I don't have a single grey hair. And I still have a full head of hair.

[quote]No one would cast an 86 year old as a series regular.

* Betty White waves from the great beyond while cuddling a tiger cub while Allen sucks off a College Bowl contestant *

[quote]Interesting timing for Simon to speak out.

Yeah, it's too coincidental that all these are coming out at the same time.

At the same time, it's so hamfisted that it makes you think there couldn't possibly be anything concerted about it.

Someone is either panicking and reacting on bad impulses or it's bizarre happenstance.

It’s a panic mea culpa. Simon Halls is a publicist, he does not need to narrate his life story to a journalist. He has a Masters in English.

Now let’s just posit for a moment, that, having been served divorce papers while his husband went to Milan, Halls underwent a bout of temporary insanity and gave a phony exclusive to Variety (which is giving him too much credit. This is standard abusive spouse behavior.)

If this story was made up, Simon Halls would have exposed a MAJOR HIDDEN VULNERABILITY within Penske Media. That fake news could flow from one Penske site to another to another unchecked like a Trojan Horse virus. All the trades are owned by the same company, if all four reported the same bogus story, why do all four need to exist?

The reason they need to exist is below.

Advertising. Unnecessary, repetitive, and lucrative For Your Consideration advertising.

If a jilted husband was able to plant a fake story to sabotage an awards campaign by a studio who is paying for advertisem*nts on four different websites which now host the same fake news story, then Penske Media is going to have a HUGE existential problem on their hands.

And I won’t even mention how bad it is that he decided to involve The Walt Disney Company.

Who is the wacky celebrity conspiracy theorist who has made it his mission to expose this innocuous, proposed sitcom as evidence of an abusive, toxic relationship and a colossal sham perpetrated at the highest level of show business?

He’s nuttier than The I Hate Emily Blunt Troll.

R160 you make a very good point.

Halls could have said “proposed.” He could have said “pitched.” Or “In early development.”

He went with “ordered.”

Bomer has been posting on his social media and has not acknowledged his own casting in a sitcom. He did however post this.

[quote] As if Disney wouldn't have said "what the f*ck no this isn't happening" by now.

I’m sure something’s going on in Business Affairs. Disney owns The Golden Girls. The show described is an outright ripoff of The Golden Girls.

If a new television pilot were to rip off the plot and characters of a famous sitcom without buying the rights, several consequences could follow:

1. **Legal Action**: The creators and rights holders of the original sitcom could file a lawsuit against the new show for copyright infringement. This could lead to significant legal costs, fines, and potential damages awarded to the original creators.

2. **Cease and Desist**: The new show's production could be halted through a cease and desist order, preventing it from airing or being distributed until the legal issues are resolved.

3. **Reputation Damage**: The producers and creators of the new show could face severe backlash from the industry and the public. This could damage their reputations and make it difficult for them to find future work.

4. **Financial Loss**: The new show's production company could incur substantial financial losses due to legal fees, fines, and the inability to air the show. Additionally, investors and advertisers might pull their support.

5. **Industry Blacklisting**: Those involved in the rip-off could be blacklisted within the entertainment industry, making it hard for them to collaborate on future projects.

6. **Removal from Platforms**: If the show somehow made it to air, it could be pulled from streaming platforms, TV networks, and other distribution channels once the infringement is discovered.

Overall, ripping off the plot and characters of a famous sitcom without buying the rights would likely lead to significant legal, financial, and reputational consequences for the parties involved.

[quote]That's why it's such a f*cking fraud. No one would cast an 86 year old as a series regular.

Linda Lavin has been cast as a series regular on:

- B Positive (32 eps, 2020-2022)

- 9JKL (16 eps., 2017-2018)

- Sean Saves the World (15 eps., 2013-2014.)

She was recurring season 1 of B positive.

Here’s the thing

There are a lot of tv shows SIMILAR to The Golden Girls. Hot in Cleveland was one and it costarred Betty White. Even Sex and the City was likened to The Golden Girls. I remember a Natasha Lyonne pilot called “Old Soul” was pitched as being similar to The Golden Girls. It’s done all the time.

The announcement for this show is literally telling you it is ripping off The Golden Girls. It is saying the characters ARE the characters from the Witt/Thomas/Harris show. Bomer himself would be sued if he was EP on this show.

Now could Murphy/Mutchnik/Kohan have bought the rights to the Golden Girls? It would be a bizarre decision given that they merely need to change some of the characterizations and plot points to avoid having to pay for the rights of The Golden Girls. After all the characters are dissimilar enough by virtue of them being men. But by announcing the characters ARE the characters from The Golden Girls, they have exposed them to legal action if they did not obtain the necessary rights. No network would have bought this pilot. The plot is exactly the same.