Friends Reunion 2014: Matthew Perry Finds a New Friend; Thomas Lennon is Felix to Matthew Perry's Oscar in Modern 'Odd Couple'

Friends Reunion 2014: Matthew Perry found a new friend. The Odd Couple is heading back to television. Thomas Lennon will play Felix Unger to Matthew Perry's Oscar Madison in the CBS remake of "The Odd Couple." Maybe Matthew Perry can host a Friends reunion for 2014, they seemed odd enough.

Variety reported that Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon will star on the CBS pilot for "The Odd Couple." The sitcom will be a half-hour multi-camera production based on the famous Neil Simon characters.

The cast of "Friends" is keeping busy. Matt LeBlanc is doing his best work in years on the Showtime series "Episodes," playing Matt LeBlanc. Courteney Cox is a cougar on "Cougar Town." Lisa Kudrow has been starring in court room appearance. Jennifer Aniston is hot off "The Millers," has a new movie and a new haircut. Not sure what David Schwimmer's doing, will check tomorrow. Matthew Perry is going to reboot the classic TV series, and Neil Simon play and movie, "The Odd Couple."

'The Odd Couple' will be filmed as a multi-camera comedy, the same format Perry used in 'Friends'.

After receiving a script commitment in December, CBS is moving forward with Matthew Perry's remake of The Odd Couple. The story follows two polar opposite roommates, Felix Unger, a tidy, clean-cut, uptight and responsible photographer at a portrait studio, and Oscar Madison, a sportswriting slob.  Perry will also be executive producer and co-writer of the new version of "The Odd Couple" for CBS.

Deadline reports that Matthew Perry will play messy sportswriter Oscar Madison. Perry just played a sports radio announcer on "Go On" so it's probably close to his heart. No word on who will be playing Felix Unger yet, but hey, who ever it is, FU.

Perry hasn't done well on series TV since Friends ended in 2004. "Studio 60," "Mr. Sunshine" and "Go On," which I always pronounced as GOON, all sank fairly quickly.CBS has greenlit the pilot for the "The Odd Couple" remake starring Matthew Perry. CBS said they're working on a project based on Neil Simon's Broadway classic about two mismatched roommates.

The Odd Couple started as a play, by Neil Simon, the great Neil Simon, that began its run in 1965 starring Walter Matthew and Art Carney, who played Ed Norton on the Honeymooners. It was made into the classic 1968 movie with Matthau taking on the Oscar role again and Jack Lemmon straightening up and honking his nose, clearing his sinuses, as Felix.  The Odd Couple TV show ran from 1970 to 1975 and starred Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison and Tony Randall as Felix Unger. It was remade as "The New Odd Couple," and starred Ron Glass and Demond Wilson. In 1985, the play was reworked on Broadway and starred Sally Struthers and Rita Moreno.