Scott Bakula to Join Jonathan Groff in HBO's LOOKING

HBO's upcoming LGBT-centric dramedy from Michael Lannan, now titled LOOKING, has scored its latest lead.

According to Deadline, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA's Scott Bakula has signed on for the eight-episode series, which follows three friends who explore the fun and sometimes overwhelming options available to a new generation of gay men.

Frankie J. Alvarez, Jonathan Groff and Murray Bartlett also star. Andrew Haigh directed the pilot. Production on the rest of the season will kick off this fall, with the network eyeing a 2014 premiere date.

Bakula will take on the role of Lynn, "an attractive entrepreneur and pillar of the Castro community."

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Groff, who plays a video game designer searching for love via OkCupid, recently told the San Francisco Gate: "The show hopefully will express all facets of gay life. We're all different types of people. There's lots of people who have anonymous sex. There's also people looking for love. There's people looking for an open relationship. There are also the queens. There are those you wouldn't know were gay. It's the gay experience."