{"id":294690,"date":"2025-11-20T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294690\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T04:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:05:07","slug":"friends-spinoff-joey-releases-final-eight-unaired-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294690\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Friends’ Spinoff ‘Joey’ Releases Final Eight Unaired Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cFriends<\/a>\u201d diehards can finally watch the conclusion of the short-lived spinoff series \u201cJoey.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe final eight episodes of the 2004 NBC sitcom, which starred Matt LeBlanc<\/a> as the wisecracking Joey Tribbiani, never aired in the U.S. after the show was canceled in 2006 during its second season. But now, those eight installments are available to watch on the \u201cFriends\u201d YouTube<\/a> channel, along with he 38 others that comprise the complete series.<\/p>\n

\n\tOutside of LeBlanc, other cast members included Drea de Matteo, Paulo Costanzo, Jennifer Coolidge and Andrea Anders. The series followed Joey as he \u201cleaves New York for Hollywood in order to take his acting career to the next level.\u201d While in Los Angeles, he reunites with \u201chis high-strung sister Gina (Matteo)\u201d and \u201cMichael (Costanzo), his 20-year-old genius nephew,\u201d per an official description.<\/p>\n

\n\tCreated by \u201cFriends\u201d producers Shana Goldberg-Meehan and Scott Silveri, the show\u2019s pilot debuted to an impressive 18.6 million viewers. However, hype quickly died down through the remainder of Season 1 and Season 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter \u201cJoey\u201d came to an end, \u201cFriends\u201d executive producer and director Kevin S. Bright gave his thoughts on why the spin-off failed to find an audience. He told The Age<\/a> in 2006, \u201cOn \u2018Friends\u2019 Joey was a womaniser but we enjoyed his exploits. He was a solid friend, a guy you knew you could count on. Joey was deconstructed to be a guy who couldn\u2019t get a job, couldn\u2019t ask a girl out. He became a pathetic, mopey character. I felt he was moving in the wrong direction, but I was not heard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFriends\u201d diehards can finally watch the conclusion of the short-lived spinoff series \u201cJoey.\u201d The final eight episodes of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,1911,65185,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-294690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-friends","12":"tag-matt-leblanc","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}