They won’t be there for you after all — at least not on Netflix.
As many will be ringing in the new decade, the streaming giant is losing the ’90s sitcom “Friends” on Jan. 1, 2020. The show about three men and three women living in a New York apartment complex exploring life as 20-somethings is gearing up to move to HBO Max.
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That’s Warner Media’s foray into the world of steaming series and movies. It debuts in May 2020.
If fans want to keep up with the adventures of Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey and Phoebe with no commercial interruptions, they’ll have to pay $14.99 a month to do it.
It was previously announced that the series would exit Netflix in the new year, but the exact date was not known. Before then, speculation loomed that the show would become unavailable before 2019 rolled around. But it remained on Netflix thanks to a $100 million price tag to license it from Warner Media.
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Airing 236 episodes from 1994-2004, the series turned little-known stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc into household names. The ensemble cast was also close, having teamed together to negotiate a $1 million per episode salary in the series’ final two seasons. The actors would all be paid the same or they’d walk away from the NBC series. That made the six stars the highest-paid TV actors of all time in that era. Only the cast of the recently-ended “The Big Bang Theory” has made an equal amount of money per half-hour episode.
While the "Friends" casts' big payday set a record, the show's co-creator Marta Kauffman told Business Insider the payout was absurd.
"A million dollars an episode is kinda ridiculous," Kaufmann said. "Let's be honest, that's a lot of money."
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Yet all that money has paid off for the stars, who have since gone on to star in other TV shows and films. The "Friends" cast still receives income from syndication payments, which USA Today has reported is $20 million each a year. And if fans don't want to pay up for another streaming service, they'll have to rely on those reruns to relive the show.
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