Matthew Perry comedy for ABC network

October 15, 2009  Filed Under News, 1 Comment » 

America’s ABC network has picked up the rights to the new single-camera comedy being developed by Matthew Perry.

The former Friends and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip star will play a self-involved manager of a second-rate sports arena who begins to reevaluate his life on his 40th birthday.

The comedy is based on an idea by Perry, and will be written with Sony-based Alex Barnow and Marc Firek (both ofTil Death, Out of Practice, Family Guy). Thomas Schlamme (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The West Wing) will direct.

Amid continued speculation …