After many delays, Friends: The Reunion is finally happening. HBO Max originally announced the program in the month of February 2020, but it had to be postponed several times due to the coronavirus pandemic, which made an in-person reunion impossible. Now, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow are officially set to appear all together in front of TV cameras again.
This is a full two-minute trailer from HBO Max’s eagerly anticipated Friends: The Reunion special. In the video, they return to the comedy’s original soundstage, Stage 24, on the Warner Bros. Studio lot in Burbank for an unscripted celebration of the iconic NBC series.
The trailer shows the cast gathering on a re-creation of their iconic set, playing a trivia game about the show, doing a table read of a scene, and sharing memories of starring on the hit sitcom and the phenomena it became. The video was revealed during WarnerMedia’s upfront presentation to advertisers Wednesday.
The special’s guest-star cast includes David Beckham, Justin Bieber, BTS, James Corden, Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevingne, Lady Gaga, Elliott Gould, Kit Harington, Larry Hankin, Mindy Kaling, Thomas Lennon, Christina Pickles, Tom Selleck, James Michael Tyler, Maggie Wheeler, Reese Witherspoon and Malala Yousafzai.
Friends premiered in 1994 and ran for 10 seasons on NBC. It remains one of the most popular shows in the world, having exploded on streaming when its 236 episodes debuted on Netflix in 2015 and earned a new generation of fans. ‘Friends’ left Netflix in 2019 and shifted to WarnerMedia’s HBO Max in 2020.
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