Overview
- Netflix announced on Tuesday that The One About Matthew Perry will be a three‑part docuseries that premieres on October 27, 2026.
- Emmy‑winner Mary Robertson directs the series for Maxine Productions at Sony Pictures Television with multiple executive producers attached.
- Perry’s sister Mia Perry Bowick is the central voice and the film uses unreleased photos and videos from the Perry family archive to portray him off screen.
- The series will examine Perry’s long struggles with prescription drugs and alcohol and addresses the legal aftermath of his 2023 death, which an autopsy attributed to the acute effects of ketamine and led to guilty pleas and sentences for five people who supplied the drug.
- Netflix says the film aims to broaden public understanding of Perry beyond his work on Friends and to foreground his advocacy for addiction treatment while the streamer has not confirmed participation by the main Friends cast.