Matthew Perry-related stories
Posted Oct 13th 2009 12:33PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, Celebrities, Reality-Free

I was looking forward to Matthew Perry's new Showtime show
The End of Steve, a drama about a radio talk show host. Unfortunately, Showtime wasn't looking forward to it as much as I was and didn't pick up the show.
Instead, Perry is going to produce, co-write, and star in
a new comedy about a sports arena manager who finds himself thinking about where his life is at after he turns 40. Fans of
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and
The West Wing (two other shows that Perry was in) will be interested to know that Thomas Schlamme will be involved in the show too as director and co-producer.
Continue reading Matthew Perry to produce and star in new sitcom
Posted Sep 29th 2009 1:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Reality-Free

You know, ever since
Friends went off the air, rumors have cropped up again and again that there would be a big screen version of the show, presumably picking up the storylines from the grand finale. Of course, if you remember the great stories on
Joey, maybe post-
Friends storytelling isn't such a grand idea after all.
However, at least one person is sure that a feature film is coming. James Michael Tyler, who poured the coffee at Central Perk as Gunther (he also ogled Rachel), was asked about the movie version and
Tyler said that Friends: The Movie is definitely on.
Continue reading Friends feature film rumors begin again
Posted Aug 7th 2009 12:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Reality-Free

So no one told him life was going to be this way, but it was, at least for a few days. A gentleman in Brixton, South London named Steve Misiura
watched every single episode of Friends in a non-stop marathon. That's 84 hours of Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Monica, Joey, and Phoebe loving, fighting, and drinking coffee. He actually broke the world record for watching TV, which was at 72 hours straight. I think this is a record someone here at TV Squad should try to break.
Of course, this being the age of the web,
he kept a blog about it and uploaded pictures from the event. The picture above is Steve about 80 hours into his marathon. He began to hallucinate and get various ailments.
I think it would have been OK, record-wise, if he had interrupted his marathon at some point. He could have just used the excuse "I was on a break!"
Posted May 8th 2009 2:35PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Video, Web, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Have you caught Kevin Pollak's new online talk show? It's titled
Kevin Pollak's Chat Show, appropriately enough, and it airs (can we still say that if it's on the web, "airs?") every Sunday at 5PM PT. So far he has had a variety of guests on, including
Mad Men's Jon Hamm, Levar Burton, Paget Brewster, and Alex Albrecht. It's a fun little show, with a casual atmospshere and a Charlie Rose-like set. Here is his interview with Matthew Perry (yes,
that's really him on Twitter). Sure, they talk about
Friends, but also tennis,
Studio 60, Old Spice commercials, and
this.
Posted Apr 14th 2009 1:24PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: OpEd, Commercials, Celebrities, Reality-Free

I've been trying to figure out what bothers me about the TV commercials for the new movie
17 Again, and I finally know what it is: it's just not believable.
I know, I know, of course a movie that features a 37-year-old man somehow becoming a teenager again through some complicated process (from the previews I think it involves a whirlpool and/or lightning) isn't supposed to be gritty realism, but I'm talking about the cast members.
Continue reading Those commercials for 17 Again really bother me
Posted Apr 10th 2009 3:39PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Lost, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free

There's an odd little rumor spreading around the internet today, that
Friends star Matthew Perry will appear in the season finale of
Lost. Is it true or not?
Answer: very not. ABC and Perry's publicist says that
there's no truth to the rumor whatsoever. Perry did express a desire to appear in the show, which he loves, but it's not going to happen. How did it start? Well, the IMDb is an awesome web site, but when you can join and pretty much add any info that you want, things like this are going to happen (see also: Wikipedia). His name is still up there though, playing a character named "George Hobbes."
Continue reading Matthew Perry to appear in the Lost season finale? Yeah, right
Posted Dec 10th 2008 2:26PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free

We told you a while back about Matthew Perry's new Showtime series,
The End of Steve. He'll play an arrogant local talk show host who is going thorugh some changes in his life. Now some other
cast members for the series have been announced.
Nate Torrence, who costarred with Perry on the short-lived
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (he played Dylan), has joined the cast and will play Perry's assistant. Other people signed on for the show include Martha Plimpton (she'll play Perry's producer), Eddie Shin (he'll play Perry's boss), and Kiele Sanchez, who
Lost fans will remember as the much-loved character of Nikki, who is currently still buried on the beach somewhere. She also starred in one of my favorite sitcoms of the past ten years, ABC's
Married to the Kellys.
Oh, besides
Studio 60, Perry also starred in a show called
Friends that lasted a few years or so.
Posted Nov 25th 2008 8:10AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, Video, Web, Reality-Free

There are many Thanksgiving traditions we all enjoy: the turkey, the stuffing, watching football, fighting over the drumstick to see whose wish comes true, and putting up with family members you avoid 363 days of the year (you see them at Christmas too).
There's another tradition, this one TV-oriented:
Friends!
Continue reading All of the Friends Thanksgiving episodes are there for you - VIDEO
Posted Nov 20th 2008 11:23AM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, Cheers

All this month, AOL TV is publishing their list of
TV's hottest hunks of all time. That's a lot of hunks, but probably they won't all be memorable to you -- or to me.
Because when were you swooning over TV hunks? When you were a teenager, of course. Unless you are really, really immature. But seriously, I am guessing that beyond the age of 16 or so, you probably didn't plaster any
Teen Magazine pin-ups on your bedroom walls.
As a teenager of the '80s, I surely had my favorite TV hunks. Yep, they were plastered on my bedroom walls, too: imagine hunk wallpaper and you've got the idea. So who on TV mingled amongst the movie actors of the
Brat Pack?
Continue reading '80s TV hunks for the thirty-something teenybopper
Posted Sep 3rd 2008 2:38PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, 30 Rock, Casting, Reality-Free

We all speculated as to what role
Jennifer Aniston will play when she guest stars on NBC's 30 Rock later this year, and
now we know what part she'll play. It's actually one of the choices we came up with.
Aniston will play an old friend of Liz Lemon who starts to stalk Jack Donaghy. The character is described as an ex-roommate of Liz's from Chicago who is a "free-spirited,
Fatal Attraction-like stalker." Well, let's hope that she isn't completely like that. We don't need any gunshots to the chest or bunny-boiling on
30 Rock. The character's name is Claire Harper.
So we've had Aniston and David Schwimmer on the show. I think all of the
Friends people should appear on
30 Rock at some point.
Continue reading Here's who Aniston is going to play on 30 Rock
Posted Aug 13th 2008 2:21PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Reality-Free

Remember
Studio 60? It was a little show that not many people had opinions about, and no one here really talked about it that much. But creator/writer
Aaron Sorkin is talking about it, to
GQ.
Sorkin actually feels guilty about the entire thing, because he knows he screwed it up. He tells Mickey Rapkin that the ultimately the show didn't work because he made too many mistakes:
I was too angry when I wrote Studio 60. The show became like the cover of Abbey Road. Everybody was trying to figure out who this character was in real life or what that incident was trying to be.Continue reading Aaron Sorkin feels guilty about Studio 60, meets with HBO
Posted Jul 6th 2008 2:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Reality-Free

Thanks to the success of the
Sex and the City movie -- and talk of more to come -- the rumor mill has been bubbling with other TV shows making the leap to the big screen. In the case of
Arrested Development, it
sure sounds like the truth.
However,
the Friends feature is a rumor that has no legs. Warners owns the property and on July 4th, even though all U.S. offices were closed for the holiday, denied the rumors via the London office.
Jayne Trotman,
Warner's director of publicity, said of the Friends movie, "(There's) no truth in the story." Just to be sure, Matthew Perry's press rep also denied the rumor. She told the BBC that nothing is happening and the rumor is just that, a shred of news with no value attached to it.
Continue reading No, no, no to Friends feature says Warners
Posted Jun 18th 2008 2:40PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Matthew Perry spent ten seasons on Friends and a rough season on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, but it looks like he isn't sick of television.
Perry has signed to star in a new comedy titled The End of Steve. Perry will play a radio talk show host in Rochester, NY who likes to swear a lot. In fact, the first word you hear Perry's character say on the show is a certain word that women don't like to hear. It begins with a C and rhymes with something a baseball batter does, especially if there is a runner on first with no outs.
The show is from Peter Tolan (Rescue Me, The Larry Sanders Show, Home Improvement), and while there is no network announced for the show, I think we can assume it's going to be HBO or Showtime (unless it airs on FX or AMC and they bleep the swears, but that would blunt the edginess of the words).
[via Google News]
Posted Jun 13th 2008 2:43PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, Reality-Free

If there is one rumor that never dies it's the one about the possibility of a
Friends reunion. Since the series finale aired in May 2004, rumors about a reunion popped up here, there and everywhere. Sometimes the rumor takes the form of "
there will be another spinoff" (remember
Joey?) but most of the time it's a "
there are talks about a movie but one of the stars doesn't want to commit." This week's revival of the rumor is of the latter kind.
Continue reading The rumor that never dies: the potential Friends movie
Posted Oct 20th 2007 1:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd
I almost didn't want to review this DVD set. Did I really want to go back into those murky waters again and bring up all those old disagreements? But here we go...
Actually, the DVD set for Studio 60 is much like the TV series itself. It starts out brilliantly and then as it goes on it starts to get worse and worse. But then it ends nicely!
Packaging
Pretty standard packaging, just a regular box containing three plastic holders housing two DVDs each. The artwork on each plastic holder is fairly interesting. Instead of a large pic on the front and the info on the inside, all the episode info is on the front and back of each individual holder, including pics from episodes and promotional pics.
Continue reading Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Complete Series - DVD review
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