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"Joey": Room for Rent
With Chandler, Monica and his other New York cohorts back in New York, Friends' Joey Tribbiani is finding out that it's hard to find a good neighbor in Los Angeles.
Tribbiani (Emmy nominee Matt LeBlanc), the star of NBC's fall 2004 Friends spinoff Joey, hasn't even hit the airwaves yet. But there's already a vacancy in his new building, as Joey producers gave an eviction notice to actress Ashley Scott, who played Joey's new La-La Land neighbor in the pilot episode of the series.
Scott, whose credits include the WB's short-lived superhero drama Birds of Prey and the big-screen remake of S.W.A.T., played a character named Allison, who was originally supposed to be a love interest for transplanted actor Joey. Two problems: Her character reveals to Joey in the pilot that she is married; and, the more serious problem--Scott had less than zero chemistry with LeBlanc.
Most critics and advertising types who viewed the Joey pilot at NBC's annual upfront presentation in New York last month, including our own TV diva Kristin, gave the show itself two thumbs up.
Joey, who heads off to Los Angeles when he gets a chance to star in a new prime-time TV series, is surrounded by his uptight sister Gina (The Sopranos' recently whacked Drea de Matteo) and her 20-year-old genius son, Michael (Road Trip's Paulo Costanzo).
LeBlanc, de Matteo and especially Costanzo were good. But most who viewed the pilot agreed that, if the show had a weakness, it was Scott's character. Joey producers plan to create a new love interest for the titular Tribbiani, and will recast and reshoot the new character's scenes before the show premieres in September.
In other preseason TV moves:
The WB is moving its new drama The Mountain, a family drama starring Oliver Hudson and Anson Mount, from Thursdays to Wednesday night, where it will follow teen Superman drama Smallville. The network has been considering the move since Fox announced that the second season of The O.C. would move to Thursday night at 8 p.m., where the tough ratings competition also includes Joey and Survivor: Vanuatu on CBS. The new sacrificial lambs on the WB schedule for Thursdays at 8 p.m.? Sketch comedies Blue Collar TV and Drew Carey's Green Screen Show are drinking the Kool-Aid.ABC is greenlighting John Stamos' untitled romantic comedy, which was originally competing for a spot in the fall lineup. Stamos, who is set to costar with Twin Peaks alum Mädchen Amick, plays a New York publicist and swinging bachelor who tries to change his ways when he hooks up with Amick's character. The show has been significantly revamped since its initial concept, which would have seen the entire season unfold, à la 24, over the course of one blind date. ABC execs were said to be concerned that the idea was not sustainable for an entire season.
The Sci Fi Channel is developing a series based on the upcoming Vin Diesel big-screen flick The Chronicles of Riddick, which hits theaters this week, while a syndicated one-hour drama based on Reese Witherspoon's Legally Blonde character is in development at MGM Television.
Candice Bergen and Frasier dad John Mahoney are close to signing on as the stars of NBC's latest Law & Order spinoff, Law & Order: Trial by Jury. Jerry Orbach, who recently left his role as Lenny Briscoe on the original L&O series, is also expected to star in Trial by Jury.
Last but not least, a group of people with an unusual number of Z's in their names (Cameron Diaz, Frankie Muniz, rapper Jay-Z, rocker Rob Zombie and former umbrella-toting P. Diddy butler Fonzworth Bentley), plus That '70s Show star Wilmer Valderrama, are developing reality-show pilots for MTV.
Meanwhile, according to reports in the Las Vegas Journal-Review, MTV is also said to be producing a reality show starring Mötley Crüe lead singer Vince Neil, who will undergo a complete physical and lifestyle makeover in hopes of launching a comeback and possibly reuniting with his old bandmates.
The new Neil is scheduled to be unveiled on Aug. 28. Of course, he'll still have to deal with the old Tommy Lee for a Mötley Crüe reunion to happen.
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