Television Show 'Friends'

Friends
from Warner Bros 1999

Jennifer Aniston -Role: Rachel Green
Courteney Cox - Role: Monica Geller-Bing
Lisa Kudrow - Role: Phoebe Buffay-Hannigan
Matt LeBlanc - Role: Joey Tribbiani
Matthew Perry - Role: Chandler Bing
David Schwimmer - Role: Ross Geller

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Friends (stylized as F•R•I•E•N•D•S) is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan.

Filming for the series took place at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California in front of a live studio audience. The series finale (the 236th episode), airing on May 6, 2004, was watched by 51.1 million American viewers, making it the fourth most watched series finale in television history and the most watched episode of the decade.

The series won many awards and was nominated for 63 Primetime Emmy Awards. It was also very successful in the ratings, consistently ranking in the top ten in the final primetime ratings. Many critics now regard it as one of the finest shows in television history, including TV Guide, which ranked it No. 21 on their list of the 50 greatest TV shows of all time.