Jonathan Bailey will go from breaking hearts in Regency-era England to romancing Matt Bomer across four decades in a new television project.

The Bridgerton star has signed on to star in Showtimes forthcoming series Fellow Travelers . Hell play Tim Laughlin, a devoutly religious college graduate who catches the eye of Hawkins Fuller (Bomer), a State Department official in the 1950s. Allison Williams of HBOs Girls rounds out the cast as Lucy Smith, a senators daughter who has known Hawkins since the two were teenagers.

Adapted from Thomas Mallons 2007 novel , Fellow Travelers is billed as an epic love story and political thriller that follows Tim and Hawkins volatile and decadeslong romance.

The two men begin their relationship in secret, and later cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves, according to press notes .

Production on the eight-episode series is set to begin in Toronto this month. A release date was not announced.