Friends Special Reunion To Air On HBO Max

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JAKARTA - It was not in vain that fans asked the players of the Friends television series to reunite. The news was finally realized this year and was announced by HBO Max, a streaming platform made by HBO.

The six main characters of Friends will return to appear in a special episode, which will air soon this year. This special episode will mark the 25th anniversary of the broadcast of the Friends series.

The proof is, when Friends entered the Netflix streaming platform, their number of viewers greatly increased. So, fans are eagerly awaiting the news of this reunion.

Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and Matthew Perry will be appearing for a special episode for HBO Max. Along with that, the entire Friends season will also be re-releasing afterwards on the HBO Max platform.

Reporting from The Verge, HBO Max and WarnerMedia paid more than 425 million US dollars to get the broadcast rights of this popular series. That means, the players of this series will also get paid twice as much as the episodes that have been aired.

In addition, the writers of the Friends series, David Crane and Mata Kauffman will also return to work on stories for this special episode. Moreover, both of them will also prepare a special story without a script for the six Friends players.

In fact, this is not the first time, fans are waiting for the six Friends players to reunite. But several times the players have also refused to play again since the broadcast of its last episode in 2004.

This news was also warmly welcomed by the Friends of the cast. A teaser photo was uploaded simultaneously and wrote "This happened!". This one-day special will be released on HBO Max when the streaming app is officially released in May.

Friends is a television series that started broadcasting in 1994. This series tells the story of six friends who meet and live in Manhattan and live their relationship with family, friends, and themselves.

For 10 seasons, Friends is still establishing itself as the most successful television series in the United States. The series was also a turning point for the careers of the six players.