The next chapter of “Friends” is here.
It’s the “One Where They Get Back Together.”
“Friends: The Reunion” is on HBO Max tonight. It only took 17 years after the series finale, but the whole cast returns to reflect on and celebrate the long-running NBC sitcom.
Here’s the information for when to tune in, who will be there, watch parties and other details.
Jennifer Aniston (Rachel), Courteney Cox (Monica), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe), Matt LeBlanc (Joey), Matthew Perry (Chandler) and David Schwimmer (Ross) reunited to film the unscripted special at Stage 24, the show’s original soundstage on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California.
The reunion arrives this week after filming was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Don’t expect a new episode of “Friends,” but there will be plenty of series material. Actors revisit the series sets — the miraculously spacious apartment, the Central Perk hangout spot — and reminisce about the first table read. They will also deliver a reading of a “Friends” script.
“Everyone was so perfectly cast,” Schwimmer says in the trailer.
The "Friends" set in the "Friends" reunion.Terence Patrick
Another highlight: Aniston says an unnamed TV producer once told her she had no chance of succeeding with “Friends.”
“I remember I went to the producer of the show I was on and he said, ‘That show’s not gonna make you a star,’” she says in the reunion.
The series premiered on NBC in 1994 and wrapped in 2004, after 10 seasons. Fans continued to binge-watch the show, finding “Friends” on HBO Max in 2020 after the series left Netflix in 2019.
“Friends” executive producers Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane produced the reunion special with Aniston, Cox, Kudrow, LeBlanc, Perry and Schwimmer.
Variety reported that each actor received $2.5 million for the special, which is reminiscent of their pay during the series.
By the end of “Friends” in 2004, each cast member was being paid $1 million per episode.
The "Friends" reunion was filmed on the same Warner Bros. lot where the show was filmed.Terence Patrick
James Corden plays host to the “Friends” cast for the reunion.
The trailer also shows David Schwimmer hosting some “Friends” cast trivia.
Special guests at “Friends: The Reunion” include series regulars and guest stars:
- Christina Pickles (Monica and Ross’ mother, Judy Geller) and Elliott Gould (their father, Jack Geller)
- James Michael Tyler (Gunther)
- Reese Witherspoon (Rachel’s younger sister Jill Greene)
- Maggie Wheeler (Janice)
- Tom Selleck (ophthalmologist Dr. Richard Burke, who dated Monica)
- Larry Hankin (Mr. Heckles, Monica and Rachel’s downstairs neighbor)
- Thomas Lennon (Randall, Joey’s identical hand twin)
Central Perk, the old hangout from "Friends," at the HBO Max reunion.Terence Patrick
Celebrity super fans taking part in the reunion:
- David Beckham
- Nobel Prize laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai
- Justin Bieber
- Lady Gaga
- BTS
- Mindy Kaling
- Cindy Crawford
- Kit Harington
- Cara Delevingne
Chandler, Joey, Ross, Monica, Rachel and Phoebe are back — at least the actors who played them.HBO Max
The hashtag for the “Friends” reunion watch party: #CentralPerkWatchParties.
Fans can also go to scener.com in order to watch the reunion with their friends on custom virtual couches.
“Friends: The Reunion” will be released at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT Thursday, May 27 on HBO Max.
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