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After months of rumors and hints, it’s official: The Friends cast will reunite exclusively for an untitled unscripted special for HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s direct-to-consumer offering debuting in May 2020. Series stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer will return to the iconic comedy’s original soundstage, Stage …
For everyone who thought 1990s hit sitcom Friends was too unrealistic or too white, Jay-Z and director Alan Yang are here for you. Yang (Master of None) directed the music video for Jay-Z’s new single, “Moonlight,” which dropped Friday afternoon. It’s a beat-by-beat re-enactment of a scene from Friends, with …
Louis CK and Matt LeBlanc may not have won Emmy Awards last night in the category they were matched up in — Jeffrey Tambor won Lead Actor in a TV Comedy for his performance in Transparent — but CK and LeBlanc and all of us are winners for rediscovering their …
When Adam Devine burst into our national consciousness — not just through his starring role in Comedy Central’s Workaholics, but also through a national ad campaign and a plum role in the singing feature film Pitch Perfect — I was far from the only person to notice how Devine reminded …
Seinfeld has been updated and parodied for today’s times and technology thanks to Twitter (@SeinfeldToday) and (@Seinfeld2000). But what about that other Must-See TV sitcom of the 1990s? Friends uploaded all of its history onto Netflix this year, but how would Friends be portrayed in this year of 2015? Created …
This is as close as we’re ever going to get to an actual Friends reunion, most likely. So thank Jimmy Kimmel for being such a devoted fan that he spent thousands on designing an exact replica of the Friends NYC apartment set, and convinced guest Jennifer Aniston to read his …
The big four broadcast networks usually are coy when it’s still three to four weeks before their official Upfronts debut presentations to advertisers, but NBC isn’t wasting time, at least with former Friends star Matthew Perry. The Peacock Network announced today that it’d ordered Perry’s latest sitcom venture, Go On, …
