Friends(1994-2004)




1.Friends(1994-2004) NBC

On May 6, 2004, quite fifty two million individuals tuned in to the ultimate episode of Friends, creating it the fourth-most-watched finale in U.S. history once it ventilated. however it is the show's lingering hold on the tone that creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman realize thus gratifying — and a bit problematic. "It's utterly surreal," says Crane, 58. "From the manner the show got on the air, to the actual fact that we have a tendency to had ten wonderful years, which youngsters these days area unit clasp it. You'd assume they'd be like, 'This is tired, old TV.' "

On the contrary. Even Taylor Swift may be a fan; she recently performed "Smelly Cat" with Lisa Kudrow onstage in la. Crane and Kauffman laugh these days after they mirror on a number of the notes that preceded the series' 1994 premiere. Former NBC chief Don Ohlmeyer thought viewers would suppose Monica was "a slut" for sleeping with a man on the primary date, et al felt the gang's coffee shop couch was too "fleshlike" (it was swapped for one thing less "downmarket"). "But overall, there have been only a few notes by today's standards," says Kauffman, 59. "Our own personal mantra was, 'Let's do a show we might truly watch.' and that we stuck thereto."

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