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"Joey" set to launch 9/04
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Posted by: RGM1138

According to TV Guide, NBC has given the greenlight to a Friends spinoff, featuring Joey Tribbiani, to start in September, 2004.

http://www.tvguide.com/tv/roush/dispatches/

If I were Matt LeBlanc, I'd pass. It's not like he needs the money. Plus, he's tempting the fates with a Friends' version of the Seinfeld curse.

EDIT: BTW, "Joey" is not the official name of the show. I have no idea what it will be. I just used "Joey" for brevity in the header.

Bob

Posted by: edc

LeBlanc has consistently been the one who wanted a spin-off. He likes the character, and his film career has been mediocre.

As for me, I wanted the inevitable spin-off series to be "Gunther!"

Posted by: mp2526

quote:
Originally posted by RGM1138

Plus, he's tempting the fates with a Friends' version of the Seinfeld curse.

Bob

Maybe he's betting on the Friend's version of the Fraser success. What else has he done lately. I'll probably give it a chance.

Posted by: ClutchBrake

Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle

My mom said he was one of the few bright spots.

Posted by: mp2526

quote:
Originally posted by ClutchBrake
Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle

My mom said he was one of the few bright spots.

Right, I forgot. He did do a good job in that. I guess it obviously just wasn't a memorable performance, at least for me. A bit of a bit part.

Posted by: mp2526

quote:
Originally posted by ClutchBrake

My mom said he was one of the few bright spots.

I don't think your mom was their target audience. I, being a guy, found there to be several bright spots. Admittedly, though, some movies you just have to go into knowing you must check your brain at the door and enjoy it for what it is.

Posted by: ClutchBrake

Not really, but she does usually like that kind of movie. She said her main annoyance was them giggling all the time. She said it got real old real quick. She said Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu provided lots of eye candy.

Posted by: Graymalkin

As long as Joey doesn't end up raising Ross and Rachel's baby on his own.

Posted by: BlearyEyed

I’ll reserve judgment on how this whole things going to go until its actually on the air or at least has a few cast members, but is there anybody who heard rumors of a spinoff featuring Matt LeBlanc and thought to themselves, “as long as they don’t name it “Joey!” they’ve got a chance"?

Hopefully they come up with something a bit better, because in my mind no title screams “bland sitcom retread” more than a show called Joe.

Posted by: JYoung

quote:
Originally posted by BlearyEyed
I’ll reserve judgment on how this whole things going to go until its actually on the air or at least has a few cast members, but is there anybody who heard rumors of a spinoff featuring Matt LeBlanc and thought to themselves, “as long as they don’t name it “Joey!” they’ve got a chance"?

Well, a previous version of this story was that they were going to spin off Ross and Joey together and call it "The Ross & Joey Show".....

Posted by: jradosh

Remember, he already was in a failed spin-off from "Married With Children" about 10 years ago. He's brave to want to try again.

J :rolleyes:

Posted by: marksman

I wonder if he will hook up with Ms. Jane and fight with Mr. Drysdale.

Posted by: RGM1138

I wouldn't mind seeing a spinoff with little Emma's nanny - Molly (Melissa George).

To quote Ross: "So hot, I cried myself to sleep last night."

:)

Bob

Posted by: aadam101

One thing about the artice bothered me "Courtney Cox will no doubt return to TV."

Why would Matt Roush assume that?

Out of the sox Friends she has had the most success in movies up until this year anyway. She was in the "Scream Trilogy" which made a lot more money than any of the other Friends movies did. Lisa Kudrow has "Analyze This (and That)" and Jennifer Aniston has "Bruce Almighty" but other those two all of the Friends movies have been flops at least as far as starring roles go.

Does Matt assume the other four are going to continue to make box office duds?

Posted by: laria

I guess we know that Joey and Rachel aren't going to end up together then. :)

Posted by: whoknows55

quote:
Originally posted by aadam101
One thing about the artice bothered me "Courtney Cox will no doubt return to TV."

Why would Matt Roush assume that?

Out of the sox Friends she has had the most success in movies up until this year anyway. She was in the "Scream Trilogy" which made a lot more money than any of the other Friends movies did. Lisa Kudrow has "Analyze This (and That)" and Jennifer Aniston has "Bruce Almighty" but other those two all of the Friends movies have been flops at least as far as starring roles go.

Does Matt assume the other four are going to continue to make box office duds?

Matthew Perry has the whole 9/10 yards.

Posted by: tivospav

quote:
Jennifer Aniston has "Bruce Almighty"

What about Jennifer Aniston in "The Good Girl." It was quite a good movie. I got tickets to a free screening of that and the theater was packed. But afterwards people were really depressed that she wasn't playing the same type of character she plays in friends. It was kind of sad actually. You're on a show like that for 10 seasons that's all people see and you try and break that character mold and your fans shun you because you didn't play the same character. While not a huge box office success, at least it was a critical success.

I think it's safe to say that they'll all be back in television.

While I'm not gonna watch "Joey," I don't even watch friends :ducks:, I think he realized as someone already said that his movies have not been that great, so take the money and run kind of thing.

Posted by: whitson77

when will the madness FINALLY end. This show is on fumes already.

Posted by: jdfs

Aniston was in many decent movies, but no blockbusters. The Good Girl was pretty good, but the average Friends fan wouldn't like it much. Joey only has a chance if they are able to get a really good ensemble to support him and the writing supports that ensemble. Look at any good sitcom today. It only works when there are multiple interesting characters to write stories around. Featuring just one character constantly does not work. That is what happened with the Seinfeld cast. It would help immensely if they got another fairly well known actor in the show, that way some of the focus is taken off of Matt. When there is only one star it is hard to spread around the story line. It is better if they were all equally unfamous (like when Friends started) or had a few stars in it. By naming the show "Joey" NBC does not appear to have taken the show in the ensemble direction. It would be better if there was some other theme, like something having to do with the soap opera he is on and naming the show that.

Posted by: Marco

"Joey" -- canceled by Thanksgiving. You read it here first.

Posted by: jradosh

quote:
Originally posted by Marco
"Joey" -- canceled by Thanksgiving. You read it here first.

"Joey" vs. "Baby Bob" celebrity boxing. Heard it here first :D

Posted by: BrandonSi

quote:
Originally posted by jdfs
Aniston was in many decent movies, but no blockbusters. The Good Girl was pretty good, but the average Friends fan wouldn't like it much.

I thought it was great, although I'm a big Gyllenhaal fan anyways.

Posted by: VegasVic

quote:
Originally posted by jradosh
Remember, he already was in a failed spin-off from "Married With Children" about 10 years ago. He's brave to want to try again.

J :rolleyes:

Oh yes the great Top Of The Heap

http://www.tvtome.com/images/shows/0/5/13-5703-sm.jpg

Posted by: granoff

I suppose "Joey" is a better title than "Friend". :D

Posted by: ClutchBrake

As much as I love the Joey character I'm afraid it is destined to fail. Very much akin to my feelings for the American version of Coupling.

As for Melissa George, she was Susan in the original American version of Coupling. I was skeptical before and downright think it is going to suck even more with Rena Sofer replacing her.

Posted by: uncdrew

They should call it "How You Doin"

Posted by: amtsuchida

Frasier worked, why won't Joey? He is my favorite of the six, so I am hoping it works out well.

Posted by: TampaThunder

quote:
They should call it "How You Doin"

Totally agree. Nothing sums up the essence of Joey better than that.

This show has a lot of potential. A lot of different directions they could go. Who knows. NBC may surprise us and not totally screw it up. Maybe they'll have Joey become a tailor so he can fondle the customers.

Posted by: Marco

quote:
Originally posted by amtsuchida
Frasier worked, why won't Joey? He is my favorite of the six, so I am hoping it works out well.

Hmm ... because Kelsey Grammer's got talent? because Cheers on a bad day was better than the best "Friends" of the last five years, or even longer?

If the creators of 'Joey' can come up with actors and characters like David Hyde Pierce's Niles Crane, they've got a chance. If Matt LeBlanc's the best they can do, they're in real trouble.

Posted by: njtaz

They'll definitely need a good supporting cast or else it will crash and burn before it even takes off.
Frasier has had a great cast and great writing.
It'll be interesting to see what the Friends spin-off will be like.

Posted by: cello

I think that of all the characters, his would have the best chances in a spinoff. Granted, I didn't watch last season, but the only characters I can really stand anymore are Joey and Rachel. And Chandler when he's with Rachel, like in the cheesecake episode. I guess the only characters without major baggage now are Joey and Phoebe, and Phoebe's act got old for me after the first few seasons. I think that she was in her prime as her twin sister on Mad About You.

Posted by: Todd

quote:
Originally posted by edc
As for me, I wanted the inevitable spin-off series to be "Gunther!"

I still think Gunther out to end up getting Rachel!! Then they could have their own spinoff series...

:)

Posted by: Tori

I like this quote from Matt LeBlanc in EW:

quote:
When I'm an old man if people say, "He played Joey and that's all he did," then I can say, "Yeah, that's right, that's all I did. Did it for a long time, it was a very satisfying career; pulled a lot of jokes, got some great stories to tell my grandchildren -- and get off my property."

His suggestion for a name - Where the Hell Is Everybody?

-Tori

Posted by: Frylock

His suggestion sounds a lot like an article a Washington Post writer wrote a few years back blasting the Seinfeld spin-off shows and calling for "Where's Jerry" where all the cast but Jerry would make the show, and once an episode someone would say "Where's Jerry". I think it would work if they replaced Jerry. While he was funny, don't get me wrong, there was enough with the other characters to carry it off.