Portents of the future?

According to this Drea de Matteo (aka Adriana La Cerva) is going to be doing the Friends spinoff. Now, while I could care less about Friends -- the big deal for me is the news that she was cast. Even though officials are saying that "de Matteo's new role on Joey won't interfere with her contractual obligations to the mafia series' sixth and final season," I read it differently. I think her character's going down like a sack of bricks. Of course, I could be wrong.