Sitcom Legends Unite!

Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano are hiding something as they try to unload their home in the darkly funny new series No Good Deed

- LEANNE ACIZ STANTON

Romano tells Us learning Kudrow had been cast as his wife was a "bonus."

During the ’90s, Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond both filmed at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif. Raymond even took over Stage 5, home base for season 1 of Friends. Which is why it’s so surprising that Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano had never met until the first table-read for their new black comedy, No Good Deed (Netflix, Dec. 12). “She refused [to work together] every time I tried,” Romano jokes to Us. According to Kudrow, she’d wanted to join forces “for years. I’d see him and think, ‘Oh, my God, he’s such a good actor. I would love to work with him.… I bet that’ll never happen.’”

You’ll be pleased she was so thoroughly wrong: The eight-part series is