TV shows, eh? You go home to watch them every night. You laugh, you cry, you talk about the characters like they're your best pals. You put your heart and soul into them. Then, one day, the network announces it's been cancelled and the characters just vanish from your screen, never to be heard from again (unless Netflix picks them up for a multi-million dollar reboot, of course).

It sure is tough to say goodbye after investing all of that time in their lives. One of the hardest programs to see go off the air was Friends. Although the American sitcom ended back in 2004, its fans are the most ardent around. Almost 15 years later, they still talk about the series an unhealthy amount.

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Perhaps one of the biggest questions on the lips of a Friends fan, though, is "what happened to the couples on the show?" The series ended with will-they-won't-they pair Ross and Rachel finally reuniting (after getting accidentally married, divorced and having a baby together) and Monica and Chandler happily married with twins. But, 14 years later, are these dream teams as solid as ever?

You\'ll be happy to hear that the answer to this question is yes! When speaking at a panel for The Wrap at the Landmark Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Friends co-creator David Crane was asked: "In your opinion, Ross and Rachel, how are they doing?" His reply? "Yes. Come on, they worked really hard, ten years."

Next up was friends-turned-lovers Monica and Chandler. The interviewer asked: "Chandler and Monica, still good?" to which Crane replied "Absolutely."

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So, all in all, fabulous news all around! It would have been pretty upsetting to learn that we spent 10 years of our lives shipping the wrong couples. Unfortunately, it wasn\'t good news for everyone though...

Devotees of the show will be disappointed to hear that the Friends creator was asked about the chances of a reboot, to which he responded: "Never happening. Never. We did it! It’s done. That’s why you don\'t want to see more of it, because it’s all a happy ending."

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He\'s not alone in his feelings. Members of the cast have, numerous times, shot down the idea. Perhaps most recently was Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay, who seemed to have mixed feeling about the idea while on The Conan O'Brien Show in January. She told O'Brien: “They’re rebooting everything. But I don’t know — how does that work with Friends, though? That was about people in their 20s, 30s. The show isn’t about people in their 40s, 50s. And if we have the same problems, then that’s just sad. That’s not fun.”

Kind of gutting right? But we can comfort ourselves with the news that Ross, Rachel and Emma, and Monica, Chandler and the twins are all living out their best lives and playing happy families. I guess Phoebe was right about that lobster thing after all.

Just a year before Matthew Perry’s death, he finally revealed the reason the hit show Friends came to an end after 10 seasons - and it had a lot to do with his co-star Jennifer Aniston.

After an impressive 237-episode run, the actors said their goodbyes but remained good friends in the years to come.

“Aniston was sobbing — after a while, I was amazed she had any water left in her entire body. Even Matt LeBlanc was crying,” Perry shared in his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.

“But I felt nothing; I couldn’t tell if that was because of the opiod buprenorphine I was taking, or if I was just generally dead inside.”

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“So, instead of sobbing, I took a slow walk around the stage with my then-girlfriend — also appropriately called Rachel [Dunn] — stage 24 at Warner Bros. In Burbanks (a stage that after the show ended would be renamed ‘The Friends Stage.’) We said our various goodbyes, agreeing to see each other soon in the way that people do when they know it’s not true, and then we headed out to my car.”

Elsewhere in the memoir, Perry revealed that Aniston was the one who brought up the idea of bowing out of the long-running series.

He explained: “The truth was, we were all ready for Friends to be done. For a start, Jennifer Aniston had decided that she didn’t want to do the show anymore, and as we all made decisions as a group, that meant we all had to stop.”

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“Jennifer wanted to do movies; I had been doing movies all that time and had The Whole Ten Yards about to come out, which was sure to be a hit,” he added. “… Even though it had been the greatest job in the world, the stories of Monica, Chandler, Joey, Ross, Rachel and Phoebe had all pretty much played out by 2004.”

When the six main cast members of Friends started filming the NBC sitcom in 1994, they were fairly unknown in the industry - aside from Cox who appeared in a few movies and in Bruce Springsteen's 'Dancing In the Dark' music video.

“It was not lost on me that Chandler had grown up way faster than I had. As a result, mostly by Jenny’s design, ten was a shortened season,” Perry added in the book. “But all the characters were basically happy at this point, too, and no one wants to watch a bunch of happy people doing happy things — what’s funny about that?”

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In the lead up to the series finale, Perry admits to asking co-creator Marta Kauffman if he could utter the very last line.

“No one else will care about this except me,” he recalled saying. “So may I please have the last line?”

And have the last line he did. In the final scene, Rachel asks her friends if they want to grab a cup of coffee, Chandler simply quips, “Sure. Where?” - knowing full well they'd be going to their go-to coffee place Central Perk.

“I got to bring the curtain down on ‘Friends,’” the actor wrote. “I love the look on Schwimmer’s face as I deliver that line — it’s the perfect mixture of affection and amusement, exactly what the show ‘Friends’ had always given to the world.”

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Lisa Kudrow was a huge fan favorite as Phoebe Buffay during her legendary 10-year run on Friends.

However, it turns out that not everyone is such a big fan of her role in the iconic NBC sitcom.

In an interview with Seth Meyers on his late-night talk show, the 58-year-old star revealed that her own son had been critical of her work playing the infamous masseuse/busker.

In fact, his comments were so negative that Kudrow described them as "demeaning" during her chat with Meyers.

According to the actor, her 24-year-old son Julian Murray Stern was initially surprised to discover that Friends was quite funny.

"He was impressed. He goes, 'It’s actually really funny,'" Kudrow recalled.

However, after talking to her son for longer she discovered that he was less impressed by her - and more impressed by her co-stars Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, and Matthew Perry.

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"He said, 'It’s actually really funny, and I mean, the guys are so funny.' And he’s like, ‘'No, I mean, you’re funny, too,'" she recounted, adding: "Never in my life have I wanted to tell my own kid, like, 'F*** you!'"

The Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion star went on to say that - while she didn't expect her son to love the show - she at least expected him to be nice about it.

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"I mean, listen, it’s not required that you’re a fan. You don’t have to like what I do," she said. "But don’t be so demeaning! Wow!"

However, while Stern wasn't massively into Friends, he did really enjoy another one of her shows - HBO's comedy-drama The Comeback.

"[He] called me up and said, 'So, I just watched the first two episodes. It’s really good, Mom,'" she recalled during the interview, adding that his enthusiasm moved her to tears.

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"I said, 'Thanks.' He said, 'Can I ask you some questions about that?' Like, yes! I almost started crying! I didn’t think that anyone in my family liked that show," she told Meyers.

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Social media users have gone wild after a page from a 2004 magazine resurfaced showing its predictions for what the cast of Friends would look like 20 years later.

This week, Friends fans across the world celebrated the cast coming together for the HBO Max Friends Reunion special.

The show marked the first time cast members Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer had been together since the sitcom ended back in 2004.

Friends ran for an incredible 10 seasons, and a whopping 51.1 million people tuned in to watch Ross and Rachel get back together in the show's finale. Therefore, it's safe to say 'Friends Fever' was well and truly at a high when the show came to an end.

You can check out what the cast looks like today in the trailer below:

In fact, back in 2004, Star Magazine even ran a feature predicting what the cast would look like 20 years later - with mixed results.

Following the airing of the reunion show, the two-page spread has gone viral on social media, with many people sharing their thoughts on the tabloid's predictions.

The magazine subheader reads, "The year is 2024: Do you know who your Friends are? Star uses computer magic to foresee their futures".

"Computer magic" is right - because they surely didn't use Photoshop to create these results.

David Schwimmer looks like a cross between Bill Maher and Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Perry resembles Gary Oldman in his facial prosthetics to play Winston Churchill, and Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox must have really p***ed off somebody at Star Magazine - because, wow.

The writer of the article must have been a Phoebe fan, because Lisa Kudrow got off lightly with just some grey hair and a few added wrinkles.

However, after resurfacing on social media, some people couldn't believe the similarities between Matt LeBlanc and Star Magazine's prediction.

One person commented: "Only one they had right way [Joey]", which was echoed by a second social media user who wrote: "They got Matt LeBlanc right".

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This sentiment was echoed over on Instagram:

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Others also pointed out that the writer of the article had no way of knowing that Jennifer Aniston would go into "anti-aging mode":

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With all that being said, I guess Star Magazine does have three years left for their predictions to come true.

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When Friends debuted back in 1994, every Thursday night on NBC, Rachel, Phoebe, Monica, Chander, Ross, and Joey promised to always be there for us because we were always there for them. But when the show ended in 2004, many of us were abruptly left with a gaping Friends-sized hole in our hearts.

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Sure other sitcoms have come along, trying to fill that hole like Courtney Cox's Cougar Town and Matt LeBlanc's Joey spin-off, but none have managed to bring the same level of universal joy and camaraderie that the original Friends series did.

Perhaps sometimes an impeccable combination of actors, writers, and producers come together with perfect chemistry to make television magic. Ah yes, Friends seemed to define a generation and when one thinks back to the 90s, that wonderful show about six best friends trying to make it in New York City will never be forgotten.

Here's how they designed Monica's iconic New York apartment:

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Even now, nearly 15 years later, the show still holds up. Personally, I love watching an episode or two on Netflix to unwind and have a good laugh with my old TV pals. Plus, a whole new generation is discovering just how amazing that old gang was.

Alas, all good things must come to an end, and after 10 great seasons, Friends aired its last episode, leaving everyone wanting more. However, as it turns out, some of the cast members might be looking to fulfill that wish with a Friends reboot.

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Yes, that's right! Jennifer Aniston recently told InStyle that since the finale where Rachel famously got off the plane to stay in New York with Ross, she's been thinking about what might have happened to the iconic couple.

What's more is that apparently, Aniston has actually been talking about it with Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow. So we've got three friends on board, what about the others? Here's what she told Instyle:

"Before that show ended, people were asking if we were coming back. Courteney [Cox] and Lisa [Kudrow] and I talk about it. It really was the greatest job I ever had. I don’t know what it would look..."

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Perhaps the recent success of other recently rebooted television shows like Will & Grace, Arrested Development, Queer Eye, and Gilmore Girls is fueling Aniston's ambitions. On top of that, other 90s icons have also recently confirmed or hinted at returns to the small screen.

Kelsey Grammer confirmed that a Frasier reboot is in the early stages, while Jerry Seinfeld said he's open to the possibility of bringing back Seinfeld. And if it wasn't for Roseanne Barr's racist Twitter tirade, the Roseanne reboot was looking like a real 90s comeback success story.

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However, Friends reunions, never mind any reboots, have been attempted in the past with little success. The closest we came to seeing all six cast members in the same room together was in 2016 when five of the six actors came together to celebrate Friends director, James Burrows.

At that time, Matthew Perry was absent because he was performing in a play in London, and while it might be a safe bet that he would be the last to come on board on a potential series reboot, this time around it's a different 'friend' that isn't interested in returning.

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While all of the cast members have gone on to have successful careers in Hollywood and all could be committed to other projects, it turns out that none other than Matt LeBlanc who portrayed Joey is standing in the way of a reboot simply because, as Aniston says, he is tired of being asked the question.

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Surely, all of the cast members have been asked ad nauseam about Friends reunions and reboots, but Aniston, and seemingly Cox and Kudrow, are still open to discussing the possibility. Here's what she told InStyle about LeBlanc:

"I know Matt LeBlanc doesn’t want to be asked that question anymore. But maybe we could talk him into it. Or we just give it some time and then Lisa, Courteney, and I could reboot The Golden Girls and spend our last years together on wicker furniture."

Hey, I'd watch that Golden Girls reboot, too, especially if they found a way to still keep Betty White in it! However, as much as I love Joey, do we really need him for a reboot? Here me out. I've got an idea.

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At the end of Freinds, Joey moved to LA to focus on his acting career, so let's assume he got really famous out there and decided to stay. The remaining five friends could then star in the show and occasionally we'd see clips of Joey on TV.

Everyone could comment on how famous he is and it would be like a running joke. The TV clips could even be from the shows Matt LeBlanc did after Freinds, wouldn't that be cool?

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It's kind of like when they rebooted Full House without the Olsen twins and everyone just remarked about how fabulous Michelle's fashion career was and how well she was doing on the opposite coast. Hey, it worked for Full House, it could totally work for Friends, right?

While we might not be getting a Friends reboot anytime soon, here's hoping that perhaps someday down the road it still might happen. In the meantime, let's all look forward to seeing what Frasier Crane's been up to all these years. Tossed salad and scrambled eggs, anyone?

But one 90s show that definitely won't be returning to our screens is Sex And The City, especially after Kim Cattrall's explosive comments regarding her co-stars:

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