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

I would watch it.

The article is terribly written. Are there two more characters? Who are the other two of the three friends?

Who cares, R2? This cast is Datalounge heaven!

Bomer in a sitcom? I did not see that coming. Of course I'll watch this, we all will.

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

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

Linda Lavin?! The Datalounge is about to explode.

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.

THR says the third friend and the housekeeper have yet to be cast:

Sounds awful unless Ryan Murphy intends to turn it into a Golden Girls-esque blood splatter murder show.

Give us Feud: Bea Arthur vs Betty White or get the fuck out, Ryan Murphy.

Bomer is too dead behind the eyes to be funny

If they’re thinking of Lavin as Sophia, they need to watch Alice reruns where she did a dual role as Vera’s elderly landlady. That should negate the idea quickly.

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.

Bomer is objectively attractive. He's just so damn boring. Bruce Vilanche wanted to do a similar show years ago, but (obviously) it didn't happen. That said, I'll have to get updates here. This is a Ryan Murphy show, so I won't be watching.

It's a streaming show so there will be a stupid twist like the characters are actually vampires or aliens.

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?

Matt Bomer is now in his Hag era.

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.

Will it be as successful as this?

[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.

R23, Matt and Simon have three teenage boys to support.

[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.

You know Linda will strong arm the writers into giving her a song and dance number in every third episode so she can show off her "talents."

R23 I feel there's truth in what you're saying.

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.

I’m not that busy right now.

A scatting old lady. How appropriate.

I would sign on to ANY project attached to Nathan Lane - that’s three months of wind, four months of DRAMA, and a midseason cancellation. You have your check and everyone blames Nathan.

Will Linda sing the theme song?

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.

June Lockhart, maybe? Or how about Barbara Eden, Marlo Thomas, or Shirley MacLaine. Hell -how about Shirley Jones?

Lee Meriwether

Lane is 68 and Lavin is 86. Did she birth him as teen?

[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.

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

I am not even remotely going to watch this shit.

The idea might work, but Bomer seems to be way too young to be cast as the "Rose" of the group. He's also way too pretty, and instead of it being two or three friends of similar life experiences navigating living togther, it becomes older men chasing after the dim witted hunk, which is quite a different show.

^^Billy Porter 😂

Holland Taylor, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Ann-Margaret, Faye!

Martin Short and Nathan are friends and he’d be perfect.

I wouldn't watch this if they strapped me into the Ludovico Technique.

Lea DeLaria could work.

[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?

Oh, wait, scratch that — I don’t think VelJohnson is out.

Wilson Cruz

BD Wong

I would rather see Matt and Jonathan Bailey reunited in the many years ago proposed gay Hart to Hart.

54 posts and no one has brought up Billy Eichner as a Dorothy?

r54 that's actually a a great idea.

R55, Ugh.

I was hoping Matt’s next role would be a rom com, but I’ll happily settle for this. He has great comedic timing, as evidenced on White Collar and Glee. He was perfect as Blaine’s dim but beautiful older brother Cooper Anderson.

Mindy Kaling could play neighbor Harriet Weston!

“Will & Grace” producers - this will bomb.

If they're looking for a Blanche, I hope they keep in mind she was delusional about her level of attractiveness. Neil Patrick Harris if he can do a southern accent and Walton Goggins if we can overlook his supposed heterosexuality.

I'm a little confused. Just last week there was a big announcement that White Collar was being rebooted and the original cast was coming back. He can't do both.

Nathan Lane deserves better than this piece of junk.

R41 Colman Domingo would be perfect. I could definitely see him as the Blanche type. He was great in The Big Gay Sketch Show and knows how to perform in front of an audience. But he probably won’t be interested now that he’s an Oscar nominee.

Too bad Bonnie Franklin is dead. She would've made a perfect Sophia in this clunker.

Bonnie Frannklin rolling over knowing she'd be perfect for this role.

Guys, guys! You're missing the obvious! Mindy Cohn! Estelle Getty wasn't old enough to be anyone's mother, so why put up barriers for someone like our very own Mindy?

Ore Eve Plumb. She could also camp it up as Sophia.

Maybe they could lure Susan Dey out of retirement?

Is Shirley Jones still with us?

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.

This

Is

Why

He

Is

Called

[bold]Duckling.[/bold]

Ask R37, R70.

I may have an opening in my busy schedule

r71 is way too invested

It's also a Hulu thing and may be a short 10 episode kind of deal, so Matty could conceivably do this and a 13 ep season of White Collar within a set time frame.

R62, This is just a pilot according to the article.

R75 a television contract in which someone is a series regular precludes them from signing on to another series. Bomer would not be able to appear on another television series outside of a three episode guest arc until the series he is on is cancelled.

Sounds more like "Vicious" than "Golden Girls."

Epsiode 1: Matt and Nathan are discussing "scat" and Linda starts singing. Hilarity ensues.

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.

GURLEEN

R71 Your post is an interesting read.

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

🙄

Gus Kenworthy for pool boy

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.

Linda Lavin? Ugh, the kiss of death!

[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.

r71 excellent post

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.

Eh I would have changed one of them having a mother to a father. Can gays EVER escape their mothers??!! I'd cast a Frasier's dad type.

[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.

Dan Butler as Bestie #3

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]

R96 = Sherlock Homo.

Who is playing the Southern slut Blanche?

It must be a POC trans person.

[quote] Who is playing the Southern slut Blanche?

You rang, bitches?

If oy Leslie Jordan didn't drive into that wall

Are Jack Plotnick and Tim Bagley busy?

How about Coco and Varla?

Lane is a one-trick pony and says every line to the back row.

[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.

Wondering if they can get a backdoor pilot from this show.

[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.

Nathan deserves at least one successful tv series and I hope this is it. I will definitely watch.

R106 = Nathan Lane, stress eating a brisket

Look at this comment from Deadline. He’s right. Ryan Murphy and Max Mutchnik would not work together because they are both enormous egomaniacal cunts.

Good God, the Matt Bomer derangement troll is melting down all over this thread.

I’m looking forward to watching the first 9 minutes of the 1st episode.

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.

Actually, Matthew Broderick should take the Rose role and Bomer can take the slut role.

In December, Bomer attended a Maestro screening with Bailey as his date. Several people in the comments section intuited that they appeared to be in love. This was December 14.

David Archuleta for the naked housetwink, er, keeper.

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.

But the photos are still available if you do a Google search for the title of the article.

He appears to be terrified.

See in my mind, Halls took Bomer to a public restaurant, gave him the “If you leave me I will destroy you” speech, and exiting the restaurant hired paps to capture the look of fear in Bomer’s face, then sent the photos to JustJared to show him how he would destroy him, and had the photos removed from the article page when Bomer relented.

Does the man ever squint? Even with flashbulbs he’s always got eyes like saucers.

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.

So now a couple of days ago Jonathan Bailey puts out this photo. Bailey has always been a very vain man but this was unusual because Jurassic isn’t noted for bared muscles (Ian Malcom aside). Again, people on the internet thought it was unusual.

Now, Bailey has tied his tank top around his waist in a very unusual, unnecessary way. The package is significant. He appears to be asserting dominance like on a nature show.

He looks fucking AWFUL.

Matt need to see Chaka Khan's Tiny Desk. Seriously, any homosexual will find this inspiring.

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 fuck 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.

Take a nap, R130.

Or a quaalude.

[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.

For those thinking the pilot is bogus: Variety is reporting this story. Would they ruin their reputation on a fake story? (I’m not challenging the idea, I’m just asking out of curiosity.)

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.

Unfortunately, pilots do not always become series.

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.”

^Thank you, Miss Kilgallen.

This ADHD conspiracy theorist losing his mind over a 4 camera sitcom (with Linda Lavin, no less) is what makes Datalounge so fascinating.

Is Nathan still on The Gilded Age?

Is there a role for Miss Vivian Vance?

Or Ruta Lee?

R138 Try Vyvanse, the crash isn’t quite as harsh. A little Risperdal might also help.

[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.

Will they have a straight houseboy?

Linda Lavin is fucking 86 years old!

But she scats like she’s 40.

That's why it's such a fucking fraud. No one would cast an 86 year old as a series regular. That was why Estelle Getty was cast as Bea Arthur's money.

But can she shit like she did when she was 40?

[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 *

Swoosie Kurtz hauled her skeletal remains around every season of Call Me Kat. She was 80 but looked 102.

Danny Pintauro isn't busy!

Interesting timing for Simon to speak out.

Maybe he’s subtly offering his services to a certain Justin Timberlake.

[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 advertisements 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.

^^^ Mary!

And if this WAS an attempt to sabotage a FYC campaign, then Halls has a really, really bad memory.

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.

As if Disney wouldn't have said "what the fuck no this isn't happening" by now. Hence the slow attempt to backtrack at r157

R157 Forget it Jake. It’s Chinatown.

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.

R157 needs a hobby.

[quote] As if Disney wouldn't have said "what the fuck 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 fucking 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.

R157

R168 Trust no one.

There's a new girl in town and she's looking good.

There's a fresh freckled face, in the neighborhood.

There's a new girl in town, with a brand new style.

She was just passing through,

but if things work out she's gonna stay awhile....

R160 Don’t worry, you’ll hate the Bomer Hater Troll that infects every thread that mentions Matt Bomer, too.

What’s Patrick Wilson doing these days? Maybe he could play the Southern slut role.

[quote]What’s Patrick Wilson doing these days? Maybe he could play the Southern slut role.

While his looks are going fast, he's still not old enough to play a retiree.

Also, he's another one I can see willingly playing gay.

He was on that recent PBS-Great Peformances Rodgers & Hammerstein celebration (from London.) He did a few numbers from "Oklahoma." Still looks good.

Patrick Wilson died for me after his sex scenes with Lens and her playing topless table tennis with him. BLECH

[quote]What’s Patrick Wilson doing these days?

Being taken seriously as an actor.

It's so cute how some of you think somebody who regularly acts in movies would want to be in a show as pathetic as this. Not everyone is the spineless piece of jelly you take for granted Bomer is.

I love it I just hope they are able to write in some gays of color.

r178 What color would you like?

somewhat curious but THR and JustJared both used photos from the same event, but different shots, for this story

Now what's interesting is that the photo they used of Bomer was taken one day before the story was published. Bomer had been wearing a ton of different outfits doing fyc but they chose something from the day before and paired in with Lane in a very boring black outfit.

They appear to be trying to make Bomer look as effeminate as possible.

Why would Bomer divorce Halls during Emmy nominations? That’s ridiculous.

News of this show is the universe rebalancing itself after Galitzine's disastrous announcement last month.

[quote] Now what's interesting

Nothing you say is interesting.

R184 For the win.

So. Basically Perfect Strangers. Nah, there's the Golden Girls then there's everything else. It's like remaking I Love Lucy. Not gonna happen

Here is what Matt posted on Twitter

More thought has gone into some of these comments than the actual pilot script.

R187, Guess Matt was too busy to proofread his post.

This show is a misfire and likely will never get a full series order.

Matt Bomer doesn't need this, especially if White Collar is coming back. He probably committed to it a while ago, especially since everyone involved seems to be involved with his husband. Nathan Lane doesn't either. The Gilded Age got renewed and he's expected to return.

Jonathan Bailey has had a partner for years now. He just refuses to talk about him other than confirming he still has one during press for Fellow Travelers. (Besides that destroys the illusion!)

[quote] But it is highly likely he is neurodivergent.

Omg another fucking autism troll.

He’s clearly not autistic.

Yes, aging homosexuals are interesting.

[quote]Jonathan Bailey has had a partner for years now.

They broke up recently. Jonathan was seeing a new guy and he was in a couple of his Instagram posts in the background, but they've been mysteriously deleted in the past week. It makes sense for Jonathan to be single now that his career is taking off.

[quote]They broke up recently. Jonathan was seeing a new guy and he was in a couple of his Instagram posts in the background, but they've been mysteriously deleted in the past week. It makes sense for Jonathan to be single now that his career is taking off.

It's always disappointing when someone finally hits big as a celebrity, then dumps their long-time partner, usually for hot young things presenting hole.

My opinion about said celeb drops precipitously.

R194, Yeah, such a shallow move.

I’m sorry - do you know Jonathan??did he tell you he and his long term bf broke up?

Bailey is single and "currently dating a lovely man". Doesn't sound married or long term... yet.

Do we need a Bailey-Groff hookup? They could be Jon-Jon!

I think the new boyfriend is in the 6th pic. He looks Swedish/German?

Drag queens and trans people have so diluted things. Gay men now seem so mundane.

Remove the T.

[quote]Gay men now seem so mundane.

It’s Bette Midler Syndrome.

She was badass in the 1960s and 1970s. Then she became the frauiest frau that ever fraued.

Our resident publicist is doing a lot of speculation here.

Some might say too much.

I miss Will & Grace. I pretty much stopped watching tv after it ended.

Jim Parsons for the Blanche role. That would be interesting!

R204, Including the reboot?

[quote]Jim Parsons for the Blanche role.

Nobody wants to have sex with Jim Parsons.

R207, Or Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

[quote] Martin Short and Nathan are friends and he’d be perfect

Why doesn’t Martin just come out already…

[quote] It's always disappointing when someone finally hits big as a celebrity, then dumps their long-time partner, usually for hot young things presenting hole.

The hardon wants what it wants.

R209, His wife won’t let him.

R207 That could be part of the joke. Maybe Jim's character is hung like a horse or rich, so he gets tons of play to everyone'ssurprise. Or he could be just as horny as Blanche but never gets any except in his made up stories about his escapades.

They should hire Rich Burns as the town slut.

[quote] Or he could be just as horny as Blanche but never gets any except in his made up stories about his escapades.

Or, in other words, just like most everybody on DataLounge.

I'll only watch if Linda Lavin sings this to Matt Bomer.

R215 A comic book/Golden Girls crossover? Hell No!

R96 I thought “Bomer filed for divorce” - but Matt & Simon seem to be currently enjoying a nice vacation together in Italy.

R217 Oh boy. Get ready for a new round of unhinged posts.

R217 - Brace yourself for an unexpected and tragic "accident" on that vacation...

I'M THE BLANCHE!

Here's an idea that would work much better:

"Designing Gentlemen"

1. David Hyde Pierce as 'Julius Sugarbaker'

2. Neil Patrick Harris as his younger brother, 'Stefan Sugarbaker'

3. Jonathan Bailey as 'Charlie Frasier'

4. Matt Bomer as 'Marty Joe Shively'

5. Nathan Lane as 'Bernie Clifton'

6. Wanda Sykes as 'Antonia Bouvier'

Four gay men running SUGARBAKERS Interior Design Firm. Bernie Clifton is an 'old friend' of the Sugarbaker father, who hangs around the office. Antonia is the delivery driver.

THIS COULD ACTUALLY WORK !

Good cast except Matt would have to be the Suzanne. He's the only one pretty enough.

Yes, but NPH and DP kind of resemble each other - same color complexion and hair color.

Yeah but no rich old queen is going to buy NPH a mansion and put up with his pig. They would for Matt.

[quote]2. Neil Patrick Harris as his younger brother, 'Stefan Sugarbaker'

NPH could never be as funny as Delta Burke. She got the Southern charm/bitchery down perfectly. I’ve known women just like that.

Halls has gained weight in the new photo, he’s sucking in his stomach but it pushes out the man breasts.

Bomer seems somewhat childlike in that photo but that’s been observed in a lot of photos with Halls.

WTF does he see in Simon Halls?

R227. Sometimes relationships become “companionate.”

Susan Harris is fiercely protective of Golden Girls. When show writer Stan Zimmerman did a reading a show based on gay men living together and the press played up the GG connection, she called him and his writing partner, furious, thinking they were trading on the show’s name.

Have to think her lawyers have already had conversations and the creators will be under pressure to ensure their show is appreciably different.

R229. Thanks for using “appreciably.”

It’s a fine word, underused and under-appreciated.

Didn’t Simon represent Matt long before they became romantically involved?

I smell a failed pilot. With politicians and corporations abandoning DEI and Pride…and SCOTUS overturning affirmative action and eyeing obergefell, this will be delivered dead in the water. It’s an abortion, Michael.

[quote]I smell a failed pilot.

The moment they signed Nathan Lane it became a failed pilot.

Fellow Travelers should have been an ongoing series rather than a limited series. Big mistake, Showtime.

I will, however, compliment Showtime on bringing Dexter back for an additional season. It ended most unsatisfactory and the additional season/series ending was most satisfying. Can't do it with FT, they killed off one of the main characters.

[quote]Susan Harris is fiercely protective of Golden Girls

As she should. It's her show, her idea.

Linda Bloodworth would cut a bitch if anyone tried duplicating Designing Women.

Isn’t Sex & the City almost a ripoff of The Golden Girls?

Samantha is Blanche

Charlotte is Rose

Miranda is Dorothy

^ And Carrie is Mr. Ed

R227 neurotypical caretaker.

Susan Harris is very much alive would have sent a cease and desist if this was indeed ordered. But so would Disney, which owns The Golden Girls. And this was ordered by Hulu (Disney) for what I am assuming is Murphy’s deal with 20th (Disney). Disney would be aware of its own intellectual property.

You can make a show LIKE the Golden Girls but you cannot say it IS the Golden Girls unless you bought the rights. For example, KoMut produced a transparent ripoff of Cheers called “Clipped” set at a barbershop in Charlestown, Mass and even cast George Wendt. How much of a ripoff was it? The same wood finishing was used. There was a staircase going up in the back, the walls were brick, the counter was in the middle for no reason. They never said “we are ripping off Cheers, this is the new Sam and Diane, and Norm is in the cast.” They just made the show and that was that.

Midcentury Modern does not exist.

And don't even get me started on Partners.

Guess the show definitely exists. You can buy tickets to go to the pilot.

Is Nathan Lee Graham my drag name?

Only on the DL could the great Linda Lavin be discussed as if she's done nothing since ALICE. This or any other show should be so lucky as to get her -- she's a wonderful actress.

She is wonderful. But it’s wildly impractical to cast an almost 87-year-old in a pilot.

There’s a reason they can’t Estelle Getty and aged her up for the cameras.

A shit sitcom on Hulu for Matt Bomer? He's on a big career high right now and he's doing this garbage? There must be a story here.

Filming in Century City? Must be using Fox studios. I think Fox still owns the property but it is leased to Disney.

Again, you CANNOT actually say “inspired by the Golden Girls” unless they bought the rights. No one has ever bought the rights to The Golden Girls for a US remake. No one would buy the rights unless they were making an actual remake using the same characters.

I wonder if Halls got drunk, put out a phony press release, and now they have to make a fake sitcom taping to save his reputation.

THAT is a good concept for a sitcom.

Again going back to KoMut’s Cheers ripoff, Clipped.

This was supposed to be the new Sam & Diane. He even looks vaguely like Ted Danson. Her character’s name is Danni, she’s blonde.

But they never actually said “This is the new Sam” “this is the new Diane”, they’d get sued.

This Onion parody makes fun of what I’m talking about. In the heyday of network television, sitcoms used to rip each other off all the time. This goes back to Bewitched on ABC in 1964, ripped off a season later as “I Dream of Jeannie” on NBC in 1965. But they could never actually say, “this is the new ‘Pam and Jim’” if they did not own the rights to them.

In the event that Bomer would actually want to do a sitcom

If I was his agent or manager I would try to package something for him like The Unicorn, which was a single camera vehicle for a non-comedic actor, Walton Goggins, about a widowed man (Goggins was 46/47 like Bomer) who was beginning to date again with the joke of the show being how this guy really was a nice guy but women found him irresistible. The Unicorn was a very flattering role and even though the show only did 2 seasons it helped Goggins get the comedic genre series Fallout which is now a massive hit.

So I’m the agent and manager and I would get a writer and producer together and say, “I want a show like this for my client, I want it to be like The Unicorn but we’re going to call it The Duckling. Now go and write me a pilot and make enough things different so we don’t get sued.” So they would change some things around like changing the daughters to sons or making the father gay instead of straight and then a pilot script would be written and then we’d take it to pitch. And when we take it to pitch would tell the suits “This show is like The Unicorn but gay and built around Matt Bomer” and play up his strengths and appeal and why they should pay a hefty salary for my client.

No one under any circumstances would say, “Let’s put Matt Bomer who is still a very good looking 46 and put him second banana in a type of comedy he’s not good at in a role that is completely insulting to him, elevating him to a senior citizen and making a gay minstrel show out of him. And give him a very big star and EP salary. And we’ll tell everyone he’s the new Rose Nylund.” Nobody would do this.

I want to lick Matt Bomer from head to toe, with a few stops in between.

One more thing

If the show was real he would get top billing. Billing is EXTREMELY important in Hollywood and negotiated heavily beforehand.

Even if they had someone appropriate for the role like Sean Hayes, Hayes would receive top billing over Nathan Lane.

Nathan Lane is firmly in the “…and” category now.

This is not real. I’m that bitch on the plane right now… “That motherfucking sitcom pilot is not real.”

Nathan’s requested billing.

r246 Murdoch kept ownership of the Fox Studios Lot

r247 So you're not going to admit you were just wrong but are going to keep digging that hole? Quelle surprise

R251 Ain’t that the truth.

R254 I’m not wrong. I know show business.

The character played by Mike Castle on Clipped who was the Sam Malone equivalent, his character was a former star pitcher in high school who was now down on his luck and worked in a barbershop. Sam Malone was a former pitcher for the Red Sox who went down on his luck and now owned a bar. Clipped is even more of a ripoff of Cheers than Midcentury Modern is of the Golden Girls, but Clipped never went around saying “this is the new Cheers and this is our new Sam and Diane.” They’d get sued.

Additionally if Ryan Murphy was actually producing this then the role of the glamorous femme black man - I’m assuming the Blanche equivalent - would have gone to Billy Porter, not this nobody.

Additionally production is so slow in LA I would be surprised - if this was real - that Disney shot this away from their Buena Vista lot. Disney’s lease of the Fox lot ends this year, I’d be surprised if they haven’t migrated everything to Burbank.

Tim Allen just shot his pilot - for 20th Television (Disney), for ABC (Disney) - at Buena Vista.

See Murphy can get huge stars for his projects. This is for the Kim Kardashian series for pete’s sake.

Not so huge, R258.

I don't know about anyone else, but Simon gives me such bad vibes even in photographs. I have a feeling that Matt has to put up with a lot in his personal life to keep appearances in addition to raising children. He always looks gorgeous, but I wouldn't trade places with him for all the money in the world.

Poor Matt. To go from Jonathan Bailey to Nathan Lane in one short year... next stop, Richard Simmons.

[quote]Just got home from a rehearsal of a new TV show. While I won't give show specifics except to say it was pretty funny, I will say Matt Bomer is even more good looking in person. 😍 And I hope Matt gets an Emmy nomination for Fellow Travelers in 2 days!

They're really going all out for a show that our resident "expert" has promised us isn't actually being made

it doesn’t exist, the giveaway is that the person said it was pretty funny. Other than Will and Grace, nothing KoMut has made has ever been funny.

Richard Simmons is no longer an option, R261.

R264 - I know. The mere thought of doing love scenes with Matt Bomer just proved too much for the old girl.

He was nominated but Fellow Travelers was not.

Entirely possible the Golden Girls announcement hurt the campaign.

If he got nominated it clearly didn't

R266, Jonathan Bailey nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

Bomer was interviewed by Deadline today but neither the interview nor the article acknowledge the sitcom he is supposed to shoot this week. It does however acknowledge White Collar.

Bomer also has never acknowledged the sitcom on social media.

Both Bomer and Baiiley were nominated, but I guess that's part of the conspiracy somehow, too...

What will the conspiracy theorist say when we are all watching the show and criticizing how terrible it is? How will reality be denied then? Stay tuned...

Why do you think you will watch the show? You think it will be picked up?

What is wrong with you?

Why would Bomer mention it on social media? You really expect him to say "hey I'm shooting a pilot that maybe you can watch in a few months"?

Your insane conspiracy theory has been proven to be bullshit. Deal with it.

R268, Was Jonathan Bailey’s role supporting?

R273 because he mentions all his projects on social media

r275 So link me to the post about Outcome.

R276

No!

Because you can't.

R278

Correct. He posts most of his project announcements in his Stories which are not archived. But usually if he has a project announcement he posts a screenshot and says “So excited about this” or something.

Oh so now we've gone from "all projects" to "usually"?

They are making the pilot. They had the rehearsal, they're shooting tonight. You are genuinely claiming they're going to all this effort and expense just to back up a fake story Halls made to spite Bomer? You're sticking with that?

They’re shooting tonight?

Sitcoms tape Friday night, everyone knows this.

No, don't try and deflect, answer the question - is that your claim?

Not always, R281.

Nathan Lane doesn't do sitcoms. Or rather, sitcoms don't like him.

Remember Encore, Encore?

Remember Charlie Lawrence?

We should be spending more time on recommended houseboy casting. Who like Charlie Carver or Nico Tortorella in the role?

…or cute little Connor Jessup? What’s he been up to these days?

Funny how our little conspiracy nut went silent when challenged to actually state what he thought was going on

Meanwhile, Bomer and the cast. Oh and he's also an executive producer on this project he totally didn't want anything to do with

R287 perhaps I don’t hang my every moment on responding to every post on here like you are currently doing on the Armie Hammer thread.

And yet you just did...

[quote]…or cute little Connor Jessup? What’s he been up to these days?

If I'm going by your link, apparently not much.

I will say though - the fact that this does exist means that there will never be a White Collar revival, because this is bottom of the barrel schlock. This would indicate Bomer is not getting offers from anyone - despite the acclaim of Fellow Travelers. It would mean he is not sent projects that could be developed around him or his name is being pitched for roles in serious dramas. This is the kind of role a washed up actor takes out of desperation. Additionally, the fact that they were unable to get a name for the third role - Billy Porter, Titus Burgess come to mind - indicates the material is so poor and so kitschy no gay black man with name recognition wanted to touch it.

There was simply no career incentive for this, not even monetarily as a three camera sitcom is only an effective rainmaker when it is on a broadcast network and can be syndicated and sold internationally. A three camera sitcom on Hulu has never been done before because there’s no point. Hulu would almost certainly pass on it if they ordered a pilot, because the streamer does not air original shows like this.

If Bomer had wanted to make a show with a Golden Girls vibe, he could have simply produced it - lots of actors produce projects they don’t star in. If Bomer had wanted it to star in it himself, he certainly wouldn’t have settled for a second billed role. And he certainly wouldn’t have cast himself in a role as a gay senior citizen. The revival of Will & Grace from the same producers had a 54-57 year old Eric McCormack and it never depicted him as a clichéd elderly gay man. Bomer is only 46.

Additionally, the oddness of the show being announced while Showtime was mounting an expensive FYC campaign indicates Bomer thinks very little of the people who were trying to get him Emmy nominations. Fellow Travelers did not receive a Best Limited Series nomination and Bomer will certainly lose in his category to Jon Hamm, Richard Gadd, or Andrew Scott whose shows did received Limited Series nominations.

Andrew Scott (one year older than Bomer) was cast in a feature film about D Day from Working Title this week. If Fellow Travelers was indeed a game changer for Bomer, he would be getting similar offers to this. But if he is only getting offers as good as “Midcentury Modern” it means his leading career is essentially over. Which again makes no sense because Jonathan Bailey (who may win, because people really like him) starred in the same project and his career is ascending.

r291 You've already shown yourself up to be an idiot, stop trying to pretend you're an expert.

R292 the only idiot here is Bomer, who continues to make an embarrassment of himself despite being given the opportunity and resources to pursue better projects. It shows he has very little faith in himself as an actor, especially since he is only getting the project made because all the principles are his husband’s clients.

It also shows that Bomer is incredibly uncreative, because he chooses to do an outright ripoff of a successful show, down to the casting of the pilot. If he is EP he is responsible for the creative choices too.

[quote]he shouldn't be doing some hack sitcom for Hulu

Starring with Nathan Lane and Linda Lavin, directed by Jim Burrows is hardly hack project.

[quote]Starring with Nathan Lane and Linda Lavin, directed by Jim Burrows is hardly hack project.

It is the definition of a hack project. It’s dinner theater in Fresno.

It's hilarious to see the anger now being aimed at Bomer, rather than yourself for coming up with such an idiotic idea as his husband announcing a fake TV show to try and fuck Bomer's Emmy chances.

Bomer and Halls appear to still be happily married, too. Ignore the hateful troll who disparages Bomer in every dishonest way he can think of. He criticizes his looks, his personality, his career, his achievements, & his personal life. Nobody knows why this loser hates him so much, but he always jumps on any mention of him to make nasty remarks. Jealousy maybe?

[quote] Directed by Jim Burrows is hardly hack project.

FIFY

[quote] Nobody knows why this loser hates him so much.

Join the club, Matt.

What anger? It’s simply an acknowledgment that Bomer’s career has likely reached its end of life and that nobody wants to cast him in anything better than this. This is the reality of what choosing a role like this means. It means even Ryan Murphy, who has several high profile shows casting right now, wouldn’t even want him in any of them. It’s a “Be grateful I take your calls” casting.

Bomer himself is so embarrassed about it he didn’t to acknowledge it in an interview he did on Wednesday. Instead he kept talking about a White Collar revival which is ludicrous because he just made a series commitment which means it couldn’t be pitched with him attached.

2 films in pre-production and 1 in post puts the lie to your inane ravings, r301

Matt Bomer’s career is hotter than ever.

It doesn’t matter what IMDB says. Doing this means he is not getting any better offers. Perhaps the castings he secured after Fellow Travelers were also, like this one, because his husband was playing agent for him. Obviously, Bomer cannot get any roles on his own if this is the best he can get even with his husband’s connections.

R303 no it is not. His agents and managers took a look at his offers and said, “What have you got to lose? Nobody will cast you in anything better than this.”

Literally every single thing you've claimed in this thread has eventually been proven wrong. Time to stop digging that hole.

[quote]Doing this means he is not getting any better offers.

Matt is a TV actor, or a supporting player on film. He's not going to be offered the lead in a movie. Dataloungers overestimate his position in Hollywood.

Andrew Scott, who is the same age and openly gay, is an A-list actor who works in big projects all the time.

Bless your heart, R305.

Andrew Scott is an A list actor? Your dementia must be more advanced than Biden’s.

Andrew Scott is certainly well respected and much more talented than Bomer, and he will probably win the Emmy over him, but he is not marketable in the same way Bomer was (at least until this year, when his career collapsed for seemingly no apparent reason.)

Bomer is so unmarketable that he gets second billing to Nathan Lane now.

When The Matt Bomer Stalker above is finally arrested, this thread will be Exhibit A at the trial.

Why would his career be over when he has just been nominated for an Emmy? He’s been nominated for a bunch of other awards and won some of them.

R311, Matt has a good chance to win the Emmy because that homely guy from “The Bear” is not in the same category.

Max Mutchnick has posted a video and photos from the taping night on his instagram.

Why was DL fave Coco Peru there? Did she do warmup?

Yes the sitcom is really happening. The pilot just filmed, Max Mutchnik posted the vids and photos on his Insta. What do you "there is no sitcom, you're making this up" cunts have to say now?

What a step down for Bomer, a low rent sitcom on a low rent streamer. With all the acclaim and prestige of Fellow Travelers, this is all he was offered? It's odd.

[quote]Poor Matt. To go from Jonathan Bailey to Nathan Lane in one short year... next stop, Richard Simmons.

Not anymore!

Well, unless he has a shovel.

He's so beautiful

Not only a step down, but low budget. Look at the cheap quality of the sets and costumes.

Clearly he has a reputation in Hollywood and no one wants to give him better projects or spend money on the projects he chooses to do.

He has a good reputation as friendly and easy to get along with, he's not a diva.

It's just weird he's doing such a low rent project at this stage in his career.

Obviously, if this is the only work he can get hired for, something is wrong.

[quote]Bomer is too dead behind the eyes to be funny

If I had to pick one flaw with Matt it would be something with his baby blues. His eyes are so striking, almost otherworldly, and everyone in every interview is always caught off guard by his looks. He's not dead behind the eyes though. He proved that in Fellow Travelers. But a Ryan Murphy comedy? I don't know.

Ryan Murphy has done Matt well… certainly, he’s never been better (or more beautiful) than this scene, a steely cold Versace vampire partnered with Lady Gaga was ideal fit.

Gotta put 3 boys through college, ya know.

Never happened and never will happen to me, but I've watched a friend who was blessed with amazing looks be constantly reminded of it in almost every interaction with other people. People don't just like to look, they like to touch. You develop a way of defusing awkward situations without turning the other person off. I kind of feel sorry for people like Matt. All that beauty is a tragic burden, though I just can't seem to work up a tear.

He made me cry at the end of Fellow Travelers. I'm not a crybaby so he did something right.

Yes, the scene at his Quilt. OMG.

He acted the Hawkins character so well. A lot of the emotions were mostly on his subtle facial expressions. The sex scenes were intense too.

[quote] he kept talking about a White Collar revival which is ludicrous because he just made a series commitment which means it couldn’t be pitched with him attached.

I wonder if he thinks the sitcom isn't happening, and just did it as a favor?

But what if it got picked up.

This is the only thing he could get hired for.

Does he have a lot of debts? A super expensive lifestyle he has to maintain? I can't think of any other reason he'd take such a shit project if it weren't for the money.

Even if he was heavily in debt, he would presumably be able to get ensemble work on one of the network procedural shows (L&O, Chicago). Good looking white men in their forties always have lawyer shows to fall back on. “Suits: LA” has Stephen Amell and Bryan Greenberg for example. You would want a network drama because those still have relatively high episode counts (13-18) and you get paid per episode.

Bomer is only doing this because no one will cast him in anything else. Even Ryan Murphy, who hired him for this, would not hire him for his glossy legal drama All’s Fair, which was casting right when this was announced. And Ryan Murphy is willing to work with Kim Kardashian.

R332 You have no idea what has or hasn’t been offered to MB or why he does or doesn’t take roles. You just love to trash him at every opportunity. Your posts are predictable, tiresome & boring

Really? I the one who suggested that Bomer would have all sorts of better opportunities if he wanted to star in a sitcom. That was why I thought it was fake.

I did not think the pilot was real because if it was real then the role was taken out of desperation, because it’s so humiliating. But apparently that is the reality we live in, and Bomer cannot get anything better than this.

It really is a comedown for Bomer, given the state of his career at the moment. He should be in a prestige limited series and not this trash.

I can’t stand Nathan Lane. He’s just too much.

So I'm still not sure. Did this thing ever get produced and air? Is it alive? Is it dead? I googled and it looks like it was taped but I can't find it.

I loved Matt as Hawk. It was a star-making role. The voice, that whispered Alpha vocal fry lol. I was never interested in him before then. Can't get enough of him now.

Here’s the IMDb entry, which is very incomplete.

Your first look at Matt Bomer & Nathan Lane in the new ‘Golden Girls’ inspired sitcom ‘Mid-Century Modern’:

Bomer did a magazine in Italy with the cover story “I said ‘No’ to Ken”

This must have been shot before his career collapsed and the only work he could get was playing a moronic himbo in a ripoff of The Golden Girls.

Series has been picked up by Hulu: