Why Did Matt LeBlanc’s Joey Get the Only ‘Friends’ Spinoff?

Jason Brow September 9, 2025, 4:31 pm

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FRIENDS -- "The One with the Embryos" Episode 12 -- Pictured: Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani -- Photo by:

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It’s been over twenty years since Matt LeBlanc starred in Joey, the (so far) only Friends spinoff, which premiered on September 9, 2004. It’s a little surprising that Friends, one of the most popular TV shows of the ’90s, only got one spinoff (for comparison, The Big Bang Theory has three), but there are a couple of major reasons that most of the Central Perk gang never showed up on TV again after the series finale on May 6, 2004 — though the biggest was that the cast was simply over it.

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