will be forever remembered for his iconic role as Chandler Bing in Friends, there is another show in his CV that deserved to be just as big, if not even bigger.Created by Aaron Sorkin, the guy who also created The West Wing, as well as writing the scripts for Moneyball and The Social Network, the cast alongside Perry included Bradley Whitford , Amanda Peet and Sarah Paulson , and it was going out on NBC, the home of Friends.
Yep, 30 Rock aired within weeks of Sunset 60 on the Studio Strip, and while the Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin sit-com went on to become a smash hit and one of the greatest TV comedies of all time. An executive at NBC at the time made the comparison of Scrubs and ER not competing with each other in the audience's eyes, but apparently audiences saw things differently.
When asked about the show, Perry said that by episode five they all knew they were in trouble, and by episode ten, they weren't even on the air anymore, which completely hobbled the drive to continue making the show as good as it could be:While the 22nd and final episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip didn't air until June 2007, NBC had confirmed that the show had been cancelled by May 2007.
Despite 30 Rock not being an immediate ratings smash, it was much cheaper to produce, so NBC could afford to keep it on its schedule. It would eventually run for 138 episodes across seven seasons. And while Friends has rightfully taken its place among the most popular shows of all time, Matthew Perry's cancelled show had the potential to not only be massively popular and very funny, but to bring in some of that behind-the-scenes juiciness that Sorkin so brilliantly delivered in his other projects... if only it had been given the proper amount of time to do it.
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