The idea of a Friends reunion is something that’s been bouncing around pretty much since the show finished.
Of course that’s something that has never materialised and it sounds like those that are still holding out for a miracle should give up once and for all.
Despite the iconic show celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Marta Kauffman appears to have put the final nail in the coffin – saying that a revival won’t ever come to screens for “several reasons.”
“There are several reasons,” Kauffman told Rolling Stone.
“One, the show is about a time in your life when your friends are your family. It’s not that time anymore. All we’d be doing is putting those six actors back together, but the heart of the show would be gone.
“Two, I don’t know what good it does us. The show is doing just fine, people love it. [A reunion] could only disappoint – ‘The One Where Everyone’s Disappointed’.”
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise, the cast have frequently shot down any ideas about the show returning.
Since Friends was added to Netflix, a lot of people have watched the show for the first time and some of them have taken issues with select storylines.
Aisha Tyler played palaeontology professor Dr Charlie Wheeler, a character who became the love interest of both Ross and Joey. She recently addressed criticism that the show lacked diversity and said her casting was really important due to the sitcom’s “unrealistic representation”.
“People of colour were always aware of it [the lack of diversity]. Even at the time, people were constantly pointing out that Friends wasn’t as diverse as the Manhattan of the real world,” Tyler told The Guardian.
“My character wasn’t written on the page to be a woman of colour, and I auditioned against a lot of other women of different ethnic backgrounds, so I like to think they picked me because I was the right person for the role,” she continued.
“But I knew it was something new for the show, and it was really important because, the fact of the matter was, it was a show set in Manhattan that was almost entirely Caucasian. It was an unrealistic representation of what the real world looked like.”