Once Jennifer Aniston’s acting career got rolling, she began landing roles in films and TV series. Right out of the gate, she was cast as a series regular in “Molloy,” a 1990 sitcom starring Mayim Bialik of “Blossom” fame. Her big break, however, turned into a big bust when the show was axed after six episodes. Not long after, she was cast in another series, “Ferris Bueller,” based on the hit Matthew Broderick movie, which was canceled after 13 episodes.
In 1992, she joined “The Edge,” a sketch comedy series on the Fox network that only lasted a single season. Then, in 1994, she became a series regular on the CBS sitcom “Muddling Through.”
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After she’d signed on for “Muddling Through,” Aniston was offered a role on a different sitcom, NBC’s “Friends,” but was in second position — meaning she was contractually obligated to stick with “Muddling Through” for as long as it continued. NBC president Warren Littlefield, however, was bullish on “Friends,” and really wanted Aniston to be part of it; when he learned “Muddling Through” was struggling in the ratings so much that CBS was burning off episodes on Saturday nights, he instructed NBC’s scheduler, Preston Beckman, to obliterate the show in order to free up Aniston. “I put original Danielle Steel movies against it,” Beckman told The Hollywood Reporter. “We wanted to make sure they weren’t going to pick up more episodes just to be spiteful.”
