VIDEO : Matthew Perry to Star as Ted Kennedy in 'The Kennedys: After Camelot'

Los Angeles - Matthew Perry will star alongside Katie Holmes in The Kennedys: After Camelot. The former Friends star - who is currently on stage in London's West End playing the lead in his playwriting debut The End of Longing at The Playhouse Theatre - will play Ted Kennedy in ReelzChannel's follow-up to the 2011 mini-series The Kennedys. The project, which is set to hit TV screens in 2017, will see Perry play Ted in the years following the assassinations of his brothers American President John F. Kennedy and politician Bobby Kennedy and depicts his very complicated public and private life as he tries to live up to the Kennedy family political ambitions and fill a male leadership void in the family.