Joey (TV series)

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Joey
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Genre Sitcom
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
No. of episodes 46 (8 unaired) (List of episodes)
Production
Running time approx. 0:22 (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel NBC
Five
Original run September 9, 2004 – March 7, 2006
Links
IMDb profile

Joey is 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, but was pulled by NBC when it was overshadowed in ratings by American Idol. NBC cancelled the series, and did not show the remaining episodes.

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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 and nervous around girls. He is self conscious that he has been so sheltered and that his mother Gina breast fed him until he was seven. He is a huge Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Wars fan. He is extremely intelligent, a master of mathematics, 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 love life.
  • 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 University. 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, temperamental, 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.
  • Jennifer Coolidge as Joey's oversexed agent Bobbie Morganstern, and reportedly the 12th most powerful women in Hollywood. She is pretty, buxom, and stylish, and has suprisingly big boobs. She 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 each other 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 appearance 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 Cover Art UK UK Release Date Cover Art US US Release Date Ep #
The Complete First Season July 25, 2005 May 30, 2006 24
The Complete Second Season TBA 2007 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 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 room-mate, 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.
  • None of the main or recurring characters from Friends appeared on Joey during its run, although Chandler, Ross and Rachel were mentioned.
  • 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.
  • In episode 4 , "Joey and the Book Club" when Joey is seen singing to his cassette player, the song he is singing to is actually from Friends, in the episode "The One with the Baby on the Bus".
  • The TV show was the target of ongoing insults by late night host Craig Ferguson.
  • Although Gina Drea de Matteo plays the role of Joey's sister, she doesn't appear in the Friend's episode in which Chandler kisses one of Joey's seven sisters and doesn't know who he kissed.

[edit] Broadcasters

[edit] First-run

[edit] Criticism

The show received heavy criticism for the excessive promotional spots during the 2004 Summer Olympics. In the end these promotions hurt the show because people became upset and likely despised the show.

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Friends
Cast: Jennifer Aniston • Courteney Cox • Lisa Kudrow • Matt LeBlanc • Matthew Perry • David Schwimmer

Characters (respective to Cast): Rachel Green • Monica Geller • Phoebe Buffay • Joey Tribbiani • Chandler Bing • Ross Geller

Other characters: Gunther • Janice • Ben • Guest stars • Recurring characters • Significant others

Settings: Central Perk • Joey's apartment • Monica's apartment

Music: "I'll Be There for You"  • "Smelly Cat"  • Friends soundtrack  • Friends Again 

See also: DVD releases • Awards and nominations • Episode list • Running gags • Director list • Video game • Joey
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