Don’t worry if it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month or even your year: The forged of “Friends” is making a return on your TV screen.
More than 15 years after audiences ultimate saw Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe and Joey on community television, the group is returning for an untitled, unscripted exclusive unique for HBO Max, a new streaming provider. In addition to the unique, subscribers will also have get entry to to all 236 episodes of the Emmy Award-triumphing collection while the streaming provider makes its debut in May, executives said in a announcement on Friday.
“Guess you may call this the only where all of them got back together — we’re reuniting with David, Jennifer, Courteney, Matt, Lisa and Matthew for an HBO Max unique a good way to be programmed alongside the entire ‘Friends’ library,” stated Kevin Reilly, the streaming provider’s chief content officer.
On Instagram, forged members posted a Rolling Stone cover image from the show’s early days.
“It’s happening,” they wrote.The declaration of the unscripted unique comes just weeks after the display’s removal from Netflix.
“Friends” has loved a rich cultural afterlife, as audiences rediscovered — or, for more youthful viewers, located for the primary time — the display in reruns or on streaming services.
In 2014, a reproduction of Central Perk, a fictional coffee shop that figured closely as a setting inside the show’s 10-season run, became set up within the SoHo segment of Manhattan to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of its debut
But it hasn’t been all nostalgic glory for the show in the years since it went off the air. In August, Buzzfeed distinct how the show “hasn’t elderly well.” In 2018, Insider described the display as “overvalued at pleasant and elaborate at worst.”
The “Friends” series finale, which aired in May 2004, drew extra than 52.5 million viewers at the time.
There are scant details available approximately the unique at this time, an HBO Max spokeswoman said in a short interview on Friday, however lovers who are able to pivot beyond the characters’ impossibly big Manhattan apartments will be treated to an unscripted display filmed at the comedy’s authentic soundstage.
HBO Max declined to comment on the monetary factors of the deal on Friday.
Variety reported on Friday that the six actors — Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer — “will receive at least $2.five million apiece for participating inside the special.” The sitcom stars could “be paid between $2.five million and $3 million for the special,” consistent with The Hollywood Reporter.