Netflix has greenlit a three-part documentary built around home movies and photographs that, until now, existed in exactly one place: the private archive of Matthew Perry’s own sister. The One About Matthew Perry premieres October 27, 2026, and its access to the Perry family’s unreleased footage is the reason it exists at all.

Key Points

• The three-episode series premieres October 27, 2026 on Netflix, per the streamer’s own Tudum announcement.
• It’s directed by Emmy winner Mary Robertson and produced by Maxine Productions, a Sony Pictures Television banner, with the project also confirmed by Deadline and Variety.
• Mia Perry Bowick, Perry’s sister and a licensed psychotherapist, provides testimony she has never given publicly, drawn from the family’s private photo and video collection.
• The series lands almost exactly three years after Perry’s October 2023 death and more than two decades after his signature role ended.

Netflix’s own description, via Tudum, frames the series as a corrective: director Mary Robertson says “Matthew Perry was one of the comedic geniuses of our time” but that “the public only knew part of his story,” according to the official release. Bowick, in the same announcement, says it “taken time” for her “to feel ready to share these memories,” adding that her brother “had a beautiful heart and a generous spirit.”

That access matters because Perry’s public archive is already enormous. Netflix’s own Tudum coverage frames him primarily as the actor who played Chandler Bing across all ten seasons of Friends, from its 1994 debut to its 2004 finale, and as the author of a 2022 memoir detailing his decades-long struggle with addiction, per the same official page. What neither the show nor the memoir could offer, by design, was the Perry his family saw off camera — which is the gap this project is built to fill.

Sony’s Maxine Productions built the series specifically around Bowick’s cooperation rather than retrofitting archival footage around a pre-written narrative, according to Deadline’s report on the greenlight. Executive producers include Robertson, Lisa Kalikow, Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman, with Lora Moftah as co-executive producer and Jessica Call producing.

Documentaries built on family-only footage are still the exception in celebrity nonfiction, where production companies more often license archival TV clips and paparazzi photos to stitch together a life. A three-part series anchored entirely in one sibling’s home movies is a narrower, riskier bet, since there’s no backup reel of red-carpet interviews to pad out a thin hour. If Netflix’s own framing holds, though, it’s also a more intimate one than the usual retrospective clip show, trading polished talking heads for the unpolished version only a sister would have kept.