Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda may become the new Golden Girls when their Netflix sitcom “Grace and Frankie” debuts on Netflix.
The premise sounds like a hoot: the two veteran actresses will play women whose husbands leave them when they fall in love with each other and plan to get married. Besides dealing with the shock of a late-in-life divorce, Grace (Fonda) and Frankie (Tomlin), who have never gotten along, discover in each other the best sounding board they ever had.
“Grace and Frankie” was created by Marta Kauffman, who co-created the long-running NBC series “Friends,” and Howard J. Morris (“Home Improvement”). The first-season order is 13 episodes; the show is set to debut in 2015.
For Fonda, this will be her first regular role on a series; she currently has a recurring guest role on HBO’s “The Newsroom.” Tomlin has had a nearly 50-year track record on television that stretches back to “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” and includes “Desperate Housewives” and several television specials. She has 7 Emmy awards; Fonda has one Emmy and two Oscars.