“It was a call from Ryan Murphy that helped recruit Nathan Lane to star and executive produce in Mid-Century Modern, a new Hulu series pitched as “the gay Golden Girls” from Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan.
Murphy had “never done a multicam, but he thought the script was so funny. And this — he wanted to do this one,” shares Lane, who had appeared in another Murphy show, Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, as writer Dominick Dunne, last year.
While multicam — a method of television production employed in classic sitcoms like Cheers and Friends — has fallen out of fashion in Hollywood in recent years, Mid-Century Modern had attached “some of the best people who’ve ever done this form, and that makes a huge difference,” Lane attests. He believes the nostalgia-evoking format, coupled with barrier-breaking (funny!) stories from some of Hollywood’s top queer talent, will mint a hit…”
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