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The world stopped this weekend to marvel at the achievement of Friends star Matthew Perry, who finally joined Instagram. He is the final member of the iconic 1990s sitcom to enlist on the service. Perry was an instant hit, gaining 4.4 million new friends in a single day, according to his representatives. He is now…

An outpouring of sympathy has taken over Twitter, as Friends star Matthew Perry revealed in a tweet that he’s spent the last three months in a hosptal bed. Perry tweeted on Friday: “Three months in a hospital bed. Check.” Earlier information from his representative revealed he underwent surgery to repair a…

CBS comedy series The Odd Couple is ending its run after three seasons of 13 episodes each. The writing was on the wall when the network in November opted not to give a back order to the reboot of the Neil Simon classic toplined by Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon. While Season 2 of The Odd Couple exceeded (modest)…

Matthew Perry says he took the Ted Kennedy role in Reelz’s sequel to The Kennedys limited series, The Kennedys – After Camelot, because "it scared me,” calling it by far the most challenging role he has ever played. "As a man who has been forced to transform his life many times, I really admire the changes he made,"…

EXCLUSIVE: Midding-to-scorching reviews have not dissuaded London theatergoers from making Matthew Perry’s star turn in his playwriting debut a breakthrough West End sellout. Entering the final week of its run, The End of Longing has become the Playhouse Theater's most successful drama to date. The four-hander, which…

Nearly a year and a half after Katie Holmes was set to return as Jackie Kennedy Onassis in The Kennedys: After Camelot, the miniseries finally has its Ted Kennedy. Matthew Perry will star as the Massachusetts senator in Reelz’s follow-up to its 2011 mini The Kennedys. The four-hour project is set to air in spring…

Lloyd Owen (NBC’s upcoming You, Me And The Apocalypse) has been cast in The End of Longing opposite Matthew Perry, starring in his playwriting debut at the Playhouse Theater in the West End. Owen will play Perry’s best friend Joseph. The director is Lindsay Posner, who also staged Perry’s last London show, David Mamet…

Matthew Perry will lead the cast of The End Of Longing, his playwriting debut that will have its world premiere in February at London’s Playhouse Theatre. Veteran Lindsay Posner (Speed-The-Plow) is directing after the pair teamed in 2003 on the West End on David Mamet’s comedy Sexual Perversity In Chicago. End Of Longi…

Almost 40 years after the original The Odd Couple series went off the air on ABC, a new Odd Couple debuts at 8:30 tonight on CBS. The show has been gifted with a great slot between The Big Bang Theory and the series finale of Two and a Half Men but that prime scheduling is just about all the Odd Couple 2015 has going…

“It’s such an elastic concept and it’s been steeped in TV for the last four decades,” executive producer Bob Daily said about why Neil Simon’s 50-year-old comedy The Odd Couple  is not a dusty sitcom premise for today’s generation. “I wrote on Frasier, and that was an Odd Couple with one Oscar and two Felixs,” added…

Meet television’s new Odd Couple. Reno 911! co-creator/star Thomas Lennon is set to play Felix opposite Matthew Perry‘s Oscar in CBS’s multi-camera comedy pilot The Odd Couple, a take on the Neil Simon classic. Co-written and executive produced by Perry, Odd Couple centers on two mismatched roommates — the messy Oscar…

Sky Arts HD is getting ready for its annual Playhouse Presents series which returns to the channel this May. The showcase is devoted to one-off comedies and dramas with talent lined up this year to include Matthew Perry, Billie Piper, Ben Wishaw, Mark Strong, Jo Brand, Simon Callow, Cara Delevingne, Lindsay Duncan…