Overview
- Netflix released the first trailer on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, and confirmed the three-part documentary The One About Matthew Perry will premiere globally on Oct. 27, 2026.
- The film is directed by Emmy-winner Mary Robertson and produced by Maxine Productions with Sony Pictures Television listed among the production companies.
- Trailer footage includes new interviews with Perry’s sister Mia Perry Bowick and longtime friends and uses unreleased family photos and videos to frame his life beyond the Chandler Bing role.
- Bowick tells the camera that Perry spent $7 million trying to get sober, the clearest new detail in the trailer, and reporting notes that none of the main Friends cast appear while some of the show’s creative team do.
- The series revisits Perry’s public advocacy around recovery and his long history of treatment and will arrive one day before the third anniversary of his 2023 death, which officials attributed to the acute effects of ketamine.