Joey (TV series) was announced on May 15, 2006. The remaining episodes have never been broadcast by NBC, but have been shown on various other networks around the world. Episode 5 and Episode 13 of season 1 were directed by David Schwimmer, who played Ross Geller in "Friends". NBC heavily promoted "Joey" and gave it "Friends"<nowiki>'</nowiki> Thursday 8:00 pm timeslot. The pilot was watched by 18.6 million American viewers, but ratings continually decreased throughout the series' two seasons, averaging 10.20 million viewers in the first season and 7.10 million in the second. The final broadcast episode on March 7, 2006 was watched by
Joey Tribbiani but it is shut down before filming began in Las Vegas. He is also fired from a Burger King commercial. He filmed a role in a "Law & Order" episode that was cut from the completed episode—Joey was only "seen" as a corpse in a body bag. In seasons 6 and 7, he lands a starring role as Detective 'Mac' Machiavelli in a very short-lived, and very bad cop show called "Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E", which Chandler described as "one of the worst things ever... and not just on TV." Joey had high hopes for the series, however "Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E"