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...other news, NBC announced "Joey," a spinoff of "Friends," and a fourth edition of "Law & Order...
...exception is "Joey," which NBC is so excited - and/or anxious - about that they screened the entire pilot, something NBC president Jeff Zucker said the network had only ever done for "The Cosby Show" and "The Golden Girls." (Both, I assume, were meant as flattering comparisons.) Why take such an extraordinary step? Because you want to create the impression that "Joey" - on which more paychecks than usual are riding - is itself extraordinary...
...sure, short of that step, that many people would be using "Joey" and "extraordinary" in the same sentence. But given NBC's track record with "Must-See Thursday" comedies - "Coupling," "Inside Schwartz," "Leap of Faith," "Stark Raving Mad," I'll stop for your sake - they'd settle for having "ordinary" in the same sentence. And often, the pilot is even, well, better than ordinary. If it was not like watching a great episode of "Friends," it was like watching a pretty good "Friends" subplot stretched out to a half-hour...
...Joey" moves Matt LeBlanc's lunkhead character from New York to L.A., introducing "The Sopranos'" Drea deMatteo as his loud-mouthed, gum-snapping sister. (NBC may not be able to match HBO quality-wise, but it's catching up in the derogatory Italian-American-stereotype business!) On the plus side, the script has the kind of nicely set-up jokes you'd expect on "Friends"; in the first scene, Joey gives a long expository spiel about his reasons for moving to L.A. to the cab driver on his ride from the airport (acting auditions, getting close to family...
...order to draw more dimensions of a character who mainly provided comic relief for 10 years. This may not be fair to say, but I missed the six-person setup that bounced one-liners off one another like pinballs. And, perhaps for that reason, the script occasionally makes Joey, well, smarter than we remember him being. At one point, his sister - who has a 20-year-old son - mentions how great it is she got pregnant at 16, because she looks so young now. "You rarely hear the argument for teen pregnancy," Joey says. It's a great line...