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Friends: The making of a smash hit

06/05/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Friends: The making of a smash hit

Behind the scenes on one of the biggest TV comedies of all time

It's 20 years since the final episode of Friends aired, after a decade on TV. Executive producer Kevin Bright reveals how the series was born.

When a new show called Friends hit American TV screens in September 1994, it made household names of its cast.

Over 10 series, it charted the lives of six young New Yorkers, through marriages, divorces, births and deaths. 

The final episode was broadcast on 6 May 2004.

In 2014, executive producer Kevin Bright told Farhana Haider how the show was born - and how it became one of the biggest comedies of all time.

(Photo: The cast on the last day of filming. Credit: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)

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