Matthew Perry comedy for ABC network
Perry will play a self-involved manager of a second-rate sports arena who begins to reevaluate his life on his 40th birthday.
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America’s ABC network has picked up the rights to the new single-camera comedy being developed by Matthew Perry.
The former Friends and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip star will play a self-involved manager of a second-rate sports arena who begins to reevaluate his life on his 40th birthday.
The comedy is based on an idea by Perry, and will be written with Sony-based Alex Barnow and Marc Firek (both ofTil Death, Out of Practice, Family Guy). Thomas Schlamme (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The West Wing) will direct.
Amid continued speculation of a Friends movie, this now leaves Perry, Courtney Cox and Matt Le Blanc particularly busy in television with Lisa Kudrow producing the US Who Do You Think You Are?
The deal for the comedy could well be the richest deal so far this development season.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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Good to see Matt with a new deal after his last one fell though.