Actually, Perry could still have a bright career in films if he makes better choices. The Whole Nine Yards was a great film. Serving Sara could have been good if they had tried to use a comic actor rather than a pretty face in Elizibeth Hurly.
I think Chandler could handle a spin-off if they do it correctly. Meaning that should focus on his wise-cracking.
Where are you getting your info? You seem pretty confident. I hope you’re right. (And my guess is that the “one” has to be Aniston.)
I don’t get it…I enjoy the show, but none of them stands out as a strong actor for me…Why Aniston Stoid?
I could see the ** Phoebe/Ursula ** show. I really, really could. Lisa Kudrow is the best actor on Friends, and I think the two characters could carry a series.
All of them are filthy rich now, and will continue to be with residuals for a while. Also most of them will get movie roles for a while as well.
So the likelyhood of a follow up series are slim.
That being said:
Joey.
Matt LeBlanc even talked about this a bit on TVGuide.com.
"If you’d asked several seasons ago, I would have voted for Rachel. The idea of a spoiled girl from Long Island dumping her fiance and learning to thrive on her own certainly has comic possibilities, and Jennifer Anniston is good enough in the role to carry it off. "
Can you say Mary Tyler Moore?
Argh! That will teach me not to read the entire thread before posting. Props to Doghouse Reilly.
As for the OP, I would say Tom Selleck could pull another TV series. I don’t think any of the main characters could pull it off. Gunther may be able to but he would have to develop more of a personality which I don’t think the show will allow.
I can’t watch Friends for more than two minutes before becoming sick, but I will say that Lisa Kudrow (“The Opposite of Sex”) and Matthew Perry (“The Whole Nine Yards”) have potential for movie careers (though Kudrow may be too quirky for anything but character roles).
Actually, David Schwimmer (“Picking Up The Pieces” and his guest shots in the early “NYPD Blue”) and Jennifer Anniston (“The Good Girl”) may also slip into films.
Any “Friends” spinoff will likely fail, though, and it’s not likely individual shows featuring the start will click (since shows built around a star of another TV show are usually dismal unless they’re done by MTM Productions).
Yes, YES I knew about Mary Richards, dammit!
I also knew about That Girl, Caroline in the City, Princesses, Dianne Chambers on Cheers and probably 50 other sitcoms with the same premise.
The question was about a spinoff, not about original thinking.:rolleyes:
Let’s just say from a friend of Friends.
But if anybody watched the pre-Emmy and after-Emmy awards show, there were a lot of clues (maybe the champagne loosened lips).
You could’ve said the same thing about Cheers when it went off the air. And at that time, without the benefit of hindsight, without having any inkling of what NBC had in store, would you have picked Kelsey Grammar as the guy most likely to carry a new show?
(I’d have put my money on Woody Harrelson, personally – maybe having him go back to Iowa).
My vote is…Ugly Naked Guy!!
By the same token, who would have guessed that Trapper John, MD would have been the one to have his own spinoff from MAS*H? He didn’t even make it to the end of the series!
Easy there, pardner. The triteness of the idea makes it all the more likely! Take it as a complement for your powers of prognostication.
Except that at the end of the series, Woody was just voted onto the Boston city council. Now that may have made for an interesting spin-off.
(Plus, I think he was from Indiana. I remember one episode where he and Larry Bird got into an arguement over whose town produced dumber hayseeds.)
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