Unscripted ‘Friends’ reunion special to launch with HBO Max

LOS ANGELES (AP) – WarnerMedia’s new streaming service will debut with some excess “Friends.”

The company introduced Friday that the entire unique “Friends” forged will reunite for an unscripted unique that will be obtainable on HBO Max when the service debuts in May possibly.

A reunion has been extensive-sought by fans of the NBC sequence, which finished its 236-episode operate in 2004. HBO Max will also carry every single episode of the sitcom, which has proved enduringly popular, like with younger audiences who uncovered the show when it was obtainable on Netflix.

The show created Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer into home names and gained 6 Emmy Awards.

“Guess you could connect with this the a person exactly where they all received again collectively — we are reuniting with David, Jennifer, Courteney, Matt, Lisa, and Matthew for an HBO Max unique that will be programmed alongside the entire ‘Friends’ library,” said Kevin Reilly, HBO Max’s main material officer.

The unique is being known as a “celebration of the beloved show” and will be shot on the exact same Burbank, California, soundstage exactly where the sequence filmed.

The stars posted equivalent Instagram posts of an aged publicity image of all them with the caption, “It’s happening.” LeBlanc’s article kept the exact same concept but went farther again in Television background — he utilised a “M-A-S-H” forged image alternatively.

The show’s stars and its co-creator, Marta Kauffman, have extensive fielded queries about a achievable reunion. Rumblings of an unscripted reunion unique picked up just after the WarnerMedia introduced it would start its HBO Max service into the crowded streaming landscape.

It was also introduced Friday that cable channel TBS will air the show’s entire operate weekdays from ten a.m. to 4 p.m.