has an upcoming drama called Flint in development at CBS, and is slated to both star and executive produce.
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Matt LeBlanc Returns to TV After 22 Years!
Matt LeBlanc has an upcoming crime drama called Flint in development at CBS, and is slated to both star and executive produce.The 58-year-old actor established ...
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The 58-year-old actor playing the lovably dimwitted lothario Joey Tribbiani on 10 seasons of Friends from 1994 to 2004.
Although his best-loved work has been in that genre, including his memorable self-parody on Episodes, he is now veering into more serious territory.
His next show Flint will feature him as a police officer who is on the verge of retirement, only to be slapped with a five-year extension of his service.
Stricken with burnout, he starts breaking rules in a bid to get himself fired that counterintuitively turns him into a more effective lawman, via The Wrap.
Evan Katz, who was an executive producer on the hit Kiefer Sutherland show 24, is developing Flint in collaboration with LeBlanc.
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Matt LeBlanc has an upcoming crime drama called Flint in development at CBS, and is slated to both star and executive produce; pictured 2022
LeBlanc shot to worldwide stardom through Friends on NBC, along with Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and the late Matthew Perry
LeBlanc shot to worldwide stardom through Friends on NBC, along with Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and the late Matthew Perry.
When the show ended in 2004, he remained with NBC for an ill-starred spin-off called Joey that staggered on for two seasons before being scuttled in 2006.
When the show ended in 2004, he remained with NBC for an ill-starred spin-off called Joey that staggered on for two seasons before being scuttled in 2006
However he found sitcom success again by playing a fictionalized version of himself on Episodes, co-created by David Crane, who had also co-created Friends
LeBlanc joined the CBS family with another sitcom called Man with a Plan, a working class family comedy set in Pittsburgh that ran from 2016 to 2020
By the end of Friends, he and his five main co-stars were
'My favorite thing in the world to do, my absolute favorite thing in the world to do is nothing,' he remarked in 2018 on the Norwegian-Swedish talk show Sklavan.
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'I'm great at it. I should be a professional nothing. That's what I could be. I could be really good at that. Because it's so easy. There's no rules. "What are you gonna do today?" "I'll tell you - nothing." Pretty simple, right?' he joked.
He noted that he 'felt really fortunate to be in that position,' explaining that he was 'thankful' for having been 'successful' but noting that the 12 years he spent on Friends and then Joey constituted 'a lot of work.'
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