David Schwimmer attended the 65th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France (May 17).
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Jennifer Aniston’s photos have recently been released for the new Smartwater ads.
The outing comes after it was announced recently that US channel TBS will pick up her TV show after it was dropped by rival ABC.
TBS will now air season four of the programme as well as re-runs of series one to three.
Courtney attended a presentation by the broadcaster at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
Meanwhile, her co-star Busy Phillips recently told a website about the fraught relations with ABC.
She said: “It has not been fun to feel like the ugly stepsister of the network.
“They moved us around; they took us off the air for months. I do feel a little disappointed in how they’ve treated the show.
“If TBS is willing to launch the show in a real great way and we would actually have billboards and commercials that would be really cool.”
Source: thesun.co.uk
“Go On” brings Matthew Perry back to NBC for the first time in five-plus years, and while the new show is an ensemble piece too, it’s pretty far removed from “Friends.”
Perry plays Ryan King, a glib sports-radio host who’s been avoiding dealing with his wife’s death in a car accident. He reluctantly starts attending group therapy sessions, and then starts taking them over from not-necessarily-qualified group leader Lauren (Laura Benanti, who was hands down the best thing about “The Playboy Club” this season).
The show’s cast also includes Allison Miller (“Terra Nova”), Tyler James Williams (“Everybody Hates Chris”), Julie White (“Transformers”), Bill Cobbs, Suzy Nakamura and Khary Payton. You’ll glimpse John Cho in the trailer too, but he’s not listed as a series regular. “Friends” writer-producer Scott Silveri created “Go On,” which will air on Tuesdays in the fall.
Matthew Perry is coming home.
At the network upfronts in NYC, the star of NBC’s new fall comedy Go On told us that it feels “oddly familiar” after his years on the network’s hit sitcom Friends.
He’s also feeling…purple?!
Read on to find out what he means—as well as why he’s “kind of glad” his ABC comedy Mr. Sunshine didn’t succeed and whether he agrees with former costars Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc that a Friends reunion is “never going to happen.”
“I always like to think of myself as being the purple feather” in the NBC Peacock, Perry deadpanned when we asked about his homecoming.
He definitely deserves a feather in his cap after 10 seasons playing Chandler Bing on one of the network’s most successful series.
Unfortunately, his last two TV outings, Studio 60 and Mr. Sunshine, didn’t, um, go on as long. But, he told us candidly, “I was kind of glad Sunshine didn’t go as long…I was in charge of that show. Now I’m just an actor again and it’s nice.”
Go On “is about a guy named Ryan King who looks a lot like me,” Perry joked. “He is a sportscaster who loses his wife in tragic way and is forced to go to group therapy, where there’s a bunch of kooky characters…Zany hilariousness ensues.” As for more zaniness to come from the Friends gang, Perry calls his costars’ comments “probably a fair assessment.” But he didn’t completely shoot it down, saying his answer is really “I don’t know.”
To hear more comedic stylings from Perry and his Go On costar Laura Benanti, watch the video above!
Matt LeBlanc says his work on Friends was the “best job ever”.
The actor shot to stardom playing Joey Tribbiani for ten years on the sitcom. He admits he could have continued starring in the show well after it ended in 2004.
“It was the best job ever,” he told Radio Times.
“I was not one of the ones who voted to end it. I liked it, it was fun, it was easy. I worked about 20 hours a week, and made a lot of money. What’s wrong with that?”
After the show’s finale, Matt went on to play his character in the spin-off series Joey. The show was pulled by NBC in 2006 when it failed to pull big ratings.
Friends, on the other hand, was a global success until it wrapped.
Matt and his co-stars were earning $1 million per episode and their high wages made headlines all over the world.
“I remember seeing my salary on the cover of the Los Angeles Times Calendar section. ‘Are They Worth It?’ was the headline,” he said.
“I thought, ‘Wow, everybody knows exactly what I make’. It didn’t really matter but it was weird.”
Courteney Cox, Jennifer Garner and Whitney Port have emptied out their closets to raise money for charity.
The A-list stars have donated their fashions to TheRealReal.com, which sells high-end pre-owned clothing, accessories and shoes. Proceeds from the sales of the items will go to a good cause.
A representative from the online store has revealed the company is negotiating with a number of other celebrities to follow their lead.
“We’ve had Courteney Cox, Jen Garner, Whitney Port all donate their clothes through The Real Real with proceeds going to charity,” the rep told Us Weekly. “We’re also in talks with many celebrities to donate clothes with portions to their causes.”
The online consignment store includes luxury labels, often donated from stars and highly-regarded stylists in the fashion industry.
The regular sales are accumulated by the likes of stylist Jeanne Yang, the partner of Katie Holmes’ clothing line Holmes and Yang, and Kate Bosworth’s StyleMint collaborator Cher Coulter.
“We comb the most fashionable closets around to give our members insider access to the world’s best previously-owned jewellery, accessories, and clothing – from Hermes and Chanel to Balenciaga and Lanvin,” the rep continued.
Jennifer Aniston almost missed out on her breakthrough role in hit sitcom “Friends” because she was contracted to star on another TV show when she was offered the part as Rachel Green.
NBC network bosses immediately thought of Aniston as the perfect person to portray Green when they were presented with the comedy and they cast her alongside co-stars Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer.
But she had yet to sign a contract with NBC to officially join the show by the time it was ready to go into production in 1994, and TV executive Warren Littlefield admits they took a huge risk keeping Aniston on the project instead of simply recasting the role – because they weren’t completely sure if she’d be able to quit her other job.
In an interview on the “Today” show on Friday, he said, “We had a little difficulty. She had actually signed on to do a series at CBS and we had to take her in second position. We did the pilot that way, and she still wasn’t available.
“We had to go into series production throwing millions of dollars at risk and we still did not have the rights to go forward with Jennifer.”
Aniston was eventually able to commit to “Friends” and the program went on to become one of the most popular sitcoms of all time, winning multiple awards, including Emmy and Golden Globe honors – and launching her career.
And we have the first pilot from this year’s crop to make it to the schedule for next season: I’ve learned that NBC has picked up comedy pilot Go On to series with a 13-episode order. The project brings back to NBC’s primetime former Friends star Matthew Perry and co-showrunner Scott Silveri. (Will they return to the Thursday 8 PM slot?) Perry stars in and co-executive produces Go On, a single-camera project written by Silveri and directed by Todd Holland. Produced by Universal TV, it centers on an irreverent yet charming sportscaster (Perry) who, trying to move on from a loss, finds surprising solace from the members of his mandatory support group. The series hails from Holland and Karey Burke’s production company Dark Toy, which just re-upped its overall deal at Universal TV. Silveri, Holland and Burke executive produce. The cast of the pilot also includes Laura Benanti, Julie White, Suzy Nakamura, Allison Miller and Khary Payton. The early pickup for Go On will allow the show to start staffing right away and get its pick of available writers. The move may also put pressure on the other networks to start picking up pilots they believe in so they can start locking in writers too. Go On is actually not the first new NBC scripted series picked up for next season. The network has drama Hannibal on tap with a straight-to-series order.
Source: Deadline
