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Cast and filmed in the series pilot as married next-door neighbour Allison, [[actor|actress]] [[Ashley Scott]] was released when test audiences responded poorly to her character. The role was renamed as Alex, recast with [[Andrea Anders]], and her scenes in the pilot reshot in [[July 2004]]. The episode aired in [[September 2004]] was this reshot version. ''Joey'' has been renewed for a second season.
Cast and filmed in the series pilot as married next-door neighbour Allison, [[actor|actress]] [[Ashley Scott]] was released when test audiences responded poorly to her character. The role was renamed as Alex, recast with [[Andrea Anders]], and her scenes in the pilot reshot in [[July 2004]]. The episode aired in [[September 2004]] was this reshot version. ''Joey'' has been renewed for a second season.


The show was pulled from its Thursday-night timeslot in December 2005, but it will return in the spring of 2005, after the [[Turin Winter Olympics]], which will air on NBC.
The show was pulled from its Thursday-night timeslot in December 2005, but it will return in the spring of [[2006]], after the [[2006 Winter Olympics]], which will air on NBC.


== Episode list ==
== Episode list ==

Revision as of 23:55, 1 December 2005

Joey
File:Tv nbc Joey pr.jpg
Matt LeBlanc on Joey
Created byShana Goldberg-Meehan
Scott Silveri
StarringMatt LeBlanc
Drea de Matteo
Paulo Costanzo
Andrea Anders
Jennifer Coolidge
Miguel A. Nunez Jr.
Country of originUSA
No. of episodes24
Production
Running timeapprox. 0:22 (per episode)
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseSeptember 9, 2004 –
present

Joey is a sitcom starring Matt LeBlanc, reprising his role as Joey Tribbiani from the popular sitcom Friends.

Overview

Rumors of Joey, a spin-off show from Friends and produced by Bright-San Productions, Silver & Gold Productions and Warner Bros. Television, began to surface towards the end of the final season of Friends. First aired on 9 September 2004 on American television network NBC, Joey continues the story of popular character Joey Tribbiani, moving to Los Angeles in an attempt to boost his acting career. Possibly he is also seeking distance from his quintet of friends in New York, as his best friend Ross Geller has just gotten together with the only woman Joey has ever truly loved, Rachel Green. Joey, with Matt LeBlanc reprising the role, meets up with his sister Gina, and her son Michael, who help him acclimatize to the differences between New York and LA.

The advertising image shows LeBlanc on a lounger in a pool in a suit but with bare feet.

Despite middling ratings, the sitcom was renewed for a second season, 2005-2006.

In the second season, Joey becomes a bigger star. He also gets a new best friend named Zach Miller, played by actor Miguel A. Nunez Jr (who will be a series regular). Also, Jennifer Coolidge will have a more prominent role this season.

Recurring characters

List of guest stars

The show has had the following celebrities as guest stars:

Development of the show

Cast and filmed in the series pilot as married next-door neighbour Allison, actress Ashley Scott was released when test audiences responded poorly to her character. The role was renamed as Alex, recast with Andrea Anders, and her scenes in the pilot reshot in July 2004. The episode aired in September 2004 was this reshot version. Joey has been renewed for a second season.

The show was pulled from its Thursday-night timeslot in December 2005, but it will return in the spring of 2006, after the 2006 Winter Olympics, which will air on NBC.

Episode list

See List of Joey episodes.

Region 2 DVD releases

Season releases

DVD Name Release Date
The Complete First Season 25 July 2005

Trivia

File:Matt LeBlanc in Joey 1x03.jpg
Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani in Joey
  • The pilot episode was released in screener form for test audiences and members of the entertainment industry to preview the show and drum up business. The screener was subsequently leaked onto the Internet, and thus has received a much wider critical review process than initially conceived.
  • The theme song for the show is Sunny Hours by Long Beach Dub Allstars featuring will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas.
  • The fifth and the thirteenth episodes were directed by David Schwimmer (who played Ross Geller on Friends).
  • The sixteenth episode, aired on February 3, makes reference to Johnny Carson, who died on January 23, 2005.
  • Drea de Matteo and Paulo Costanzo, who play mother and son, were born six years apart. Costanzo's character is twenty years old, while de Matteo's is in her mid-thirties. This is probably referenced by Joey's role on Deep Powder, where he plays the father of a woman just five years his junior.
  • The duckling and the chick, bought on the last episode of Friends have yet to appear in Joey.
  • There is a picture of Joey & Chandler in a green picture frame on the cabinet next to the door into the apartment
  • Joey's classic pick-up line of "How you doin'?" was first spoken in the show by Gina.
  • The boxes of ordered Chinese food from which the characters of the show can be seen eating, have the Chinese character for friend (or friends, as Chinese lacks plural forms of nouns) printed on them.

Broadcasters

First-run

Reruns/syndication

  • None announced as of March 2005 though the first episode rerun on NBC, in the place of a new episode.
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