Friends star Matt LeBlanc is coming back to the small screen.
LeBlanc, who last starred in the Friends spin-off Joey, will team with Friends co-creator David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik (The Class, Mad About You) for Episodes, a single-camera send-up of the TV business. The series focuses on a British couple whose hit show is turned into a dumbed-down American sitcom starring LeBlanc, who plays himself...
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Matt LeBlanc may be needing a little help from his Friends soon, thanks to a ruling Tuesday that will allow a breach-of-contract suit against him to go to trial.An L.A. judge decided against a request by LeBlanc's legal team to dismiss a suit that the actor's ex-manager, Camille Cerio, filed last August, says E!. Cerio claims that he owes her more than a million bucks in commission back-payments.Cerio reportedly managed LeBlanc betwen 1994 and 1995, and she claims that at the time, LeBlanc agreed to pay her 15 percent of all earnings "derived" from the Friends phenomenon. The cash, she says, stopped flowing in 2000, four years before the show ended. With a trial date set for Sept. 22, LeBlanc has time to mull things over, and so do we: Who should come out on top? — Anna DimondUse our Online Video Guide to reminisce about Friends.Related:• How You Suin'? Matt LeBlanc's Ex-Rep Wants $1 Mil
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The other day we posted that Joey - The Complete 2nd Season (the final 22 episodes of the Friends spin-off, including 8 that NBC never aired) is coming to DVD...in Canada.The American branch had not decided to go ahead with this release, but Warner - Canada decided to move forward with it, in the full knowledge that American fans could use these discs on any standard DVD player. Anybody with an Amazon account will be able to easily import these, once Amazon's Canadian branch lists it. TVShowsOnDVD will have a link to that once it's available.The release date given on Monday was May 13th, but since then Warner - Canada has issued a date correction notice. It seems the date they gave at first was too far off, and so they've revealed that they will release it sooner than expected. The new release date is April 15th.These episodes star Matt LeBlanc (reprising his Friends role), Drea de Matteo (The Sopranos) and Jennifer Coolidge (American Pie). Time to celebrate with a really big Joey-s...
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In a lawsuit filed Monday, Matt LeBlanc's former manager, Camille Cerio, is suing the actor for allegedly failing to pay commissions due her for the past seven years. Per Variety, Cerio says that as LeBlanc's manager from April 1994 until the end of '95, she signed a contract that entitled her to commissions on income he earned from Friends and any derivatives of the show, such as Joey. Cerio has called for an audit of LeBlanc's income since 2000, estimating her overdue take at more than a million bucks. (Presumably not accounting for Joey-induced deflation.)
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Suddenly, I feel kinda bad about all the Joey jokes I made. Yesterday Matt LeBlanc filed for divorce from his wife of three years, Entertainment Tonight reports. Irreconcilable differences are said to have done in the union of the former Friend and his missus. Y'know, on second thought, I don't feel bad after all. Joey really blew.
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