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By Tim Surette - TV.comWilmer Valderrama to star in new Fox comedy pilot; Matthew Perry writing, acting in Showtime dark comedy.
When television viewers turn on their sets next year, they may see a few familiar faces that transport them all the way back to...2004!
Matthew Perry, nonthreatening. That's what makes him so dangerous.
Friends star Matthew Perry and That '70s Show's Wilmer Valderrama have both landed leading roles on a pair of recently announced pilots.
Perry, who played the neurotic Chandler Bing on the NBC megahit from 1994 to 2004, is pulling double duties as star and writer for Showtime with The End of Steve, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The cable channel has ordered a pilot episode of the dark comedy, which follows a foulmouthed, egomaniacal talk-show host (Perry). Writing and producing with Perry will be Peter Tolan, who previously wrote for Rescue Me and The Larry Sanders Show.
Like most Friends alums, Perry's post-Friends career has been largely disappointing. The actor last dabbled in television in the heavily hyped Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which fizzled out after one season.
Celebrities, they're just like us! Wilmer taking out the trash.
Valderrama, who has seemingly spent the last few years gallivanting around Hollywood as the scene's Lothario, is following his role as host of MTV's god-awful Yo Momma with a new pilot at Fox, as reported by Variety. The hour-long comedy The Emancipation of Ernesto centers on a man (Valderrama) who is on the search for his father in Los Angeles.
Before talking publicly about bedding Hollywood starlets and overseeing people talking about how corpulent each other's dear mums are, Valderrama was best known as the foreign-exchange student Fez on Fox's That '70s Show. He'll also be seen in next year's big-screen remake of CHiPs.
I really don't think Willmer will be that great as anything other than Fez, though. I could be wrong, hey. 
