When Matt
LeBlanc decided to return to network TV in a multicamera sitcom – and then said
sitcom landed a plum Monday night berth, near his former Friends co-star Matthew Perry’s The
Odd Couple – the whole thing “felt like coming home again.”
Matt LeBlanc with his new TV wife, Yes, Dear's Liza Snyder, in CBS' new sitcom Man with a Plan. |
Now, more
than a decade after last playing the perennially single Joey Tribbiani, LeBlanc
is Adam Burns, a Pittsburgh contractor who agrees to spend more time raising his
kids – manipulative pre-teen Kate (Grace Kaufman), middle son Teddy (Matthew
McCann) and brand new kindergartener Emme (Hala Finley) -- when his wife
returns to work. “Picking them up from
school, making their lunches in the morning – Adam realizes straightaway on the
first day that he hates all that,” LeBlanc explains. “It becomes a big point of contention between
him and his wife, and that’s where the comedy is.”
Created by
former That ‘70s Show showrunners
Jeff and Jackie Filgo, Man With a Plan
is the first chance the actor, a real-life father of two adult sons and a
12-year old daughter, has had to play both a dad and a spouse. “Being a parent is a really fun thing, and
I’ve had a great time doing it,” LeBlanc says.
“I think if you have a funny bone, and can laugh at your kids, that’s a
fun place for a show to be.”
LeBlanc says
he’s proud of the healthy and supportive marriage with wife Andi (Liza Snyder) at
the center of the show – and yet, Adam still feels the need to scheme behind
her back with two newfound confidants and co-conspirators, fellow parents
Lowell (Matt Cook) and Marie (Jessica Chaffin). It turns out, the trio is able to come up with
some unorthodox methods to control today’s entitled, unruly spawn. “We live in a very politically correct world,
especially regarding parenting,” LeBlanc explains. “At school, other parents have so many rules,
specifying that everything has to be non-GMO and organic. I had none of that growing up, and I’m sure
neither did Adam. So Adam is a little
less PC than most guys – and I’m ready to have fun watching him fumble his way
through that world.”
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