Friends TV Series 1994
Friends TV Show
FRIENDS TV SERIES
AUTHOR'S NOTES
Crux of the Series
Popularity and Viewership
Viewers Reviews
Critics on "Friends"
Christianity Perspective of the Show
The paper is all about the TV Show "Friends," an American sitcom about six friends living in Manhattan, New York. We will be viewing the show's happenings, critics and fans' views on the show, its popularity, its progress, the main storyline and its implications in accordance with the religion Christianity. The sitcom is a comic sitcom that goes around the lives of these six friends and how they deal with the problems they face in their lives and the happiness they share together. It is all about loving, sharing and caring for friends and has a very positive approach towards life. This is the major concept behind the show and this is what we will be analyzing and highlighting upon in the paper.
Introduction
"Friends" is a comic sitcom which first aired on National Broadcasting Company (NBC) on September 22nd, 1994. This hilarious show, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, is a product of Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. The story of the series revolves around a group of friends, namely Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc), Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry), Ross Geller (David Schiwmmer), Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), Monica Geller (Courteney Cox) and Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), and their life at the city New York[footnoteRef:1]. [1: FRIENDS WIKI, "Friends," wikia.com. http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/Friends (accessed August 27, 2012)]
The idea of the series originally belonged to Crane and Kauffman who presented it to Bright under the name of Insomnia Cafe in November/December 1993. After the idea was revised and scripts rewritten along with the name of the series, which was changed to 'Friends Like Us', the series was finally named "FRIENDS." The series was filmed in Warner Bros. Studios and was a major hit after its first episode aired on NBC. The ten seasons of this series were sensational and a combination of amusing, emotional and life changing stories of the six friends. The success of the series was of such extent that the finale of the series (236th episode), which was promoted by NBC and aired on May 6th, 2004, was watched by around 52.5million Americans, thus making it the fourth most watched series finale in the Television history and the most watched episode of the decade (Friends Wiki).
Apart from the success in terms of viewership, Friends reaped the rewards of putting forward a great comedy in the form of various awards and nominees that the series won. The series have had 55 Emmy Awards Nominations including six nominees for Outstanding Comedy Series, which the show won in 2004. It won the People's Choice Award for the first season for Favorite New Comedy Series and won three more awards in three years thereafter as Favorite Comedy Series including in 2002. The cast won Screen Actors Guild Award in 1996 for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a comedy series. Also the series has been nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award for the category of Best Television Series (1996, 1997, 1998 and 2002)[footnoteRef:2]. [2: Calif Burbank, "Synopsis of Friends TV Show," HollywoodJesus.com (May 11, 2004), http://hollywoodjesus.com/friends.htm (accessed August 27, 2012).]
The series was consistently ranked among the top ten final primetime ratings. Critics regarded the show as one of the finest shows in the Television history, among which TV Guide ranked the show No. 21 on its list of "The 50 greatest TV shows of all time." The episode of the series "The One with the Prom Video" was ranked as No. 100 on "TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time." The cultural impact of the series was highly strong, which could be judged by the fact that The Central Perk coffee house, which was the main attraction of the series as this was the place where the six friends hanged out all the time, has been imitated at various places throughout the world. Due to the series' huge success, a spin-off series "Joey" was aired right after the finale, starring Matt LeBlanc as Joey (Burbank 2004).
The show had seen an immense magnitude of success and the six stars starring as the six friends were fortunate to be casted for this show owing to the popularity they gained as these characters, especially Matt LeBlanc whose performance as Joey made all of America fall in love with Joey and his innocent humor. Each character...
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