Matt LeBlanc is heading back to television, and this time, he is trying something new. The Friends star was revealed as the lead and executive producer of the project during CBS’s 2026-27 schedule briefing in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Matt LeBlanc is attached to star in and executive-produce at CBS
Flint, currently a working title, has received a development room order from the network, meaning writers have been brought in to develop additional scripts ahead of a potential series order. If greenlit, the show would slot into CBS’s 2027-28 primetime lineup.
The premise gives LeBlanc something considerably different from the sitcom comfort zone he has occupied for most of his career.
According to the official logline, he plays “a burnt-out LAPD detective who, on the verge of retirement, is blindsided when the city extends his service by five years. Determined to get fired, he breaks rules and disobeys orders, which, to his dismay, makes him an even better cop.”
CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach described it as “a smart, character-driven premise that has a really distinctive tone.“
The series comes from writer and executive producer Evan Katz, best known as a showrunner across multiple seasons of Fox’s 24, and is being produced by CBS Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Television. LeBlanc developed the project in partnership with Katz.
For LeBlanc, the project would mark two notable firsts. It would be his drama debut after a career built almost entirely on comedies, and it would also represent his return to CBS for the first time since Man With a Plan, the sitcom he headlined for four seasons from 2016 to 2020.
His last television appearance was the 2021 Friends reunion special.
Before Man With a Plan, he had also starred in Showtime’s Episodes and co-hosted BBC’s Top Gear for four seasons, but a lead drama role is genuinely new territory.
The announcement came as part of a wider development reveal from CBS, which also unveiled Hilda! In Lights, a comedy following a 70-year-old widow trying to make it as a Broadway star, and I Know Who You Are, a forensic drama inspired by Barbara Rae-Venter’s memoir about the unmasking of the Golden State Killer using DNA technology.
A medical spinoff set within the Fire Country and Sheriff Country universe is also in early development.
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