CBS is developing a cop drama called Flint with Matt LeBlanc attached to star, a project that would put the former Friends star back at the center of a network series if it gets a green light.
If CBS orders the show, Flint would land in the network’s 2027-2028 lineup. LeBlanc would play a burnt-out LAPD detective who is close to retirement when the city adds five years to his service, then tries to get fired by breaking rules and disobeying orders.
The project was announced Wednesday at a press briefing in Los Angeles, where CBS also laid out its development slate and set its fall 2026 schedule. LeBlanc is serving as an executive producer as well as starring, and the series comes from writer Evan Katz, with CBS Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Television producing.
Katz brings a long television résumé to the project. He wrote and produced on Seasons 2 through 8 of Fox’s 24 and served as showrunner on multiple seasons of the series. He also created the UPN sci-fi comedy Special Unit 2, which ran for two seasons, and showran NBC’s The Event, which lasted one season from 2010 to 2011.
LeBlanc is best known for playing Joey in Friends, which ran for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004. He later reprised the role in Joey, a two-season spinoff that aired from 2004 to 2006, and then played a fictionalized version of himself in Episodes for five seasons from 2011 to 2017. That role brought him four Emmy nominations and one Golden Globe win, while Friends earned him three Emmy nominations.
The tension built into Flint is simple enough to explain and harder to pull off: a detective who wants out becomes better at the job the more he tries to sabotage it. CBS has not said the show is greenlit, so the immediate answer is that Flint is still a development project — but if it advances, LeBlanc would be heading into one of the network’s biggest future slots with a role built to play against his most familiar screen image.
