Joey (TV series)

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Joey
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Genre Sitcom
Running time approx. 0:22 (per episode)
Creator(s) Shana Goldberg-Meehan
Scott Silveri
Starring Matt LeBlanc
Drea de Matteo
Paulo Costanzo
Andrea Anders
Jennifer Coolidge
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Country of origin USA
Original channel NBC
Channel Five
Original run September 9, 2004–March 7, 2006
No. of episodes 46 (8 unaired)
IMDb profile

Joey was an American sitcom, starring Matt LeBlanc reprising his role as Joey Tribbiani from the popular sitcom Friends. It ran on the NBC television network, in the former time slot of its parent series, Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m. One episode was shown on a Tuesday at 8:00 p.m.

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[edit] Main characters

  • Paulo Costanzo as Joey's nephew Michael who idolizes his Uncle Joey's ability to date an enormous amount of women, and who himself is sheltered, nervous around girls, self conscious that he has been so sheltered and that his mother Gina breast fed him until he was seven, and he's a huge Star Trek: The Next Generation fan. He is extremely intelligent, a master of maths, attends Caltech, works with his rival Seth frequently on rocket inventions, and is an obvious direct opposite from his more street-wise mother and uncle. Turns to Joey as a big brother and substitute father figure, even after his biological father Jimmy has re-entered mother Gina's lovelife.
  • Andrea Anders as Alex Garrett, the next door neighbor, landlord, and friend. She is an educated and very pretty, but slightly ditsy blonde lawyer who graduated from Pepperdine. Initially intimidated, but also intrigued by Joey's tough street-wise older sister Gina, the two women eventually become friends, and she becomes more bold in the way she dresses and acts, thanks to Gina's influence. She is puzzled but impressed by Joey's gift at being able to know when she is wearing thong panties, and spends most of her time hanging out at Joey and Michael's apartment. She and Joey bond and become close friends, and she confides in him her problems with her marriage. Her husband is a professional orchestra musician, and is away from home most of the time. By the end of season one, she and Joey become romantically involved during her separation from her husband.
  • Drea de Matteo as Joey's older sister Gina Tribbiani, who is sexy, beautiful, tempermental, a little slutty in the way she dresses, promiscuous, not particularly bright but very street-wise, and a very caring but over-protective and domineering mother. For years she convinced her genius son Michael he was born when she was 22, instead of 16 and always says he is the one thing she has done really well. She and Joey are friends in addition to being siblings, both having in common the gift of being extremely appealing to the opposite sex, with numerous lovers. Initially working as a hair dresser, by season two she works as a secretary for Joey's agent Bobbie, having impressed Bobbie with her brash unintimidated manners with her.
  • Jennifer Coolidge as Joey's oversexed agent Bobbie Morganstern, and reportedly the 12th most powerful agent in Hollywood. She is pretty, buxom, and stylish, and has an enormous and flirting crush on Joey's nephew Michael. She often entertains herself by making her office assistant do funny tricks, or shocking herself with a stun-gun. She is brash, forward, aggressive, highly entertaining and slightly ditsy, laughing at everything and at anyone's expense, including her client Joey's.
  • Miguel A. Núñez Jr. joined the cast at the start of season two as the character Zach. He soon became one of Joey's best friends. Zach has an interesting career life, going from playing extras on t.v, to directing amateur plays. Zach does not appear to have a home, he was seen at one time, living in Joey's trailer, while he was working on a major block-buster movie. In one episode, Zach and Joey, both drunk, married in Tijuna, possibly a parody of Ross and Rachel marrying eachother in the season five finale of Friends. Possibly as a tribute to Joey and Chandler, Joey and Zach argued like a married couple, Zach playing the part of the wife. Zach's final appearence was in "Joey and the Big Move". Núñez was absent from the last five episodes, including the finale of the series, due to having found another job. Zach's absence within the show was not mentioned, nor was the character at all.

[edit] Development of the show

Despite middling ratings in its first season (2004-2005), the sitcom was renewed for a second season (2005-2006). During its second season, ratings fell 82%. In the second season, Joey became a bigger star. Miguel A. Núñez Jr. was also added to the show as a series regular. He played Joey's best friend. Also, Jennifer Coolidge had a more prominent role.

The show was pulled from its Thursday-night timeslot in December 2005, and NBC returned the show in a new timeslot (Tuesdays at 8pm) on March 7, 2006. Now in competition with American Idol, the ratings were even poorer, with Joey one of the lowest rating programs of the week for NBC [1]. The network pulled the series after the first Tuesday airing and its cancellation was announced on May 15, 2006. The remaining episodes have never been aired by NBC, but have been shown on various other networks around the world.

[edit] Episode list

Further information: List of Joey episodes

[edit] Awards

Joey won the People's Choice Award of Favorite New Television Comedy and Favorite Male Television Star for Matt LeBlanc, LeBlanc was also nominated for the Golden Globe of Best Actor in a Television Comedy or Musical.

[edit] DVD releases

Season Releases

DVD Name UK Release Date US Release Date Ep #
Season 1 July 25, 2005 May 30, 2006 24
Season 2 TBA 2007 22

[edit] Trivia

  • 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 and also directed some Friends episodes).
  • 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 Chick and The Duck, Joey's house-warming gift to Chandler and Monica which he was asked to keep on the last episode of Friends, never appeared.
  • There is a picture of Joey and 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 friends (or friend, as Chinese lacks plural forms of nouns) printed on them.
  • Joey's high-school friend, who shows up in the second season, is played by Adam Goldberg, the same actor who, on Friends, played Chandler's crazy new roommate, Eddie, when Joey temporarily moved out.
  • Jennifer Coolidge, who plays Joey's agent Bobbie, was a previous guest star on Friends as Monica's and Phoebe's annoying friend Amanda.
  • In response to an Entertainment Weekly review as to why he chose to reprise his character for a sitcom spinoff, Matt LeBlanc did it because he wanted to stick with a winning formula.
  • None of the main or recurring characters from Friends appeared on Joey during its run, although Chandler, Ross and Rachel were mentioned.
  • Chandler was referenced in the first episode when Gina says that 'Hollywood has a very vibrant gay scene' and that he and Joey should have moved there a long time ago. Joey makes a joke saying that Michael would be great friends with Ross. Joey also brings up Rachel, saying that she was the only girl he ever fell in love with.
  • Rachel was referenced many times by Joey as the only woman he ever loved and the reason for steering away from serious relationships with friends.
  • In the episode "Joey and the Dad", Joey's father, Joseph Tribbiani Sr. (played by Robert Costanzo), was the only character (other than Matt LeBlanc) to appear in both Friends and Joey and be played by the same actor.

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