Matt LeBlanc as his Friends alter-ego Joey TribbianiSpinoffs are hard. For every Frasier or The Jeffersons, there are about a dozen forgotten shows that buckled under the pressure of living up to their original series.But the stakes for a spinoff have arguably never been higher than they were in 2004, when Joey Tribbiani left his friends behind and flew across America to launch his Hollywood career.After the incredible success of Friends, which ran for 10 seasons and won six Emmy Awards, the only cast member who agreed to stick around for a spinoff was Matt LeBlanc. The result was Joey, a two-season sitcom filmed on the very same soundstage, in which the lovable doofus moves to Los Angeles to finally become a star.Spoiler alert: He kind of succeeds, but his career was cut short when the show was canceled due to low ratings.Two decades later, the pilot episode of Joey recently made its streaming debut when it was quietly uploaded to Friends’ o
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