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...JOEY: The Friends spinoff seems one-sixth as good as the original...
...makers of Joey know TV series don't get on the air until months after taping. But why should Joey be any more realistic about life in Hollywood than Friends was about Manhattan real estate? This is one of many ways that Joey signals its determination to deliver what NBC desperately wants: familiar, Friends-style humor to kick off Thursdays at 8 p.m. E.T. exactly as we remember it--nothing less and nothing more...
...pilot of Joey, America's favorite Friend--well, America's favorite Friend who could be persuaded to do a spin-off--moves to L.A. and lands a TV role as a male nurse, but turns it down. Days later the new show is a hit, and the actor who took the role instead has become a megastar...
Successful sitcom spin-offs--Frasier, Laverne & Shirley--give their lead characters new challenges and foils and find a fresh voice that suits them. In this show, Joey Tribbiani, Matt LeBlanc's sweet-hearted dope, heads West to jump-start his career and reconnect with his equally Noo Yawky sister Gina (The Sopranos' Drea de Matteo). We also meet his nephew Michael (Paulo Costanzo), a rocket scientist; his sharky agent, Bobbie (one-woman brass band Jennifer Coolidge); and his bland, pretty, married neighbor Alex (Andrea Anders). But none of these types are fresh or memorable. There's no Niles. Not even...
...live in a divided nation. Thus there are two schools of thought on Joey, the 800-lb. gorilla of new TV shows (NBC, Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.), starting Sept. 9. Friends was lame, ergo Joey will be lame. Friends was genius, and ... perhaps we need to give Joey a chance. After the failure of every one of the Seinfeld-alum shows, few think Matt LeBlanc's much-hyped solo sitcom is a guaranteed success. In the first episode the still none-too-bright Joey moves to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. He moves in with his sister (Drea...