The filming of the special program which is to bring together the main actors of the American series Friends and accompany the launch of the HBO Max platform has been postponed, said a spokesman on Friday. WarnerMedia, a subsidiary of AT&T, has acquired the broadcast rights to the most popular sitcom of the past 20 years, at the expense of Netflix, for $ 425 million over five years.
He intended to make it one of the headliners of his new online video platform, HBO Max, which is to be launched in May. To promote the event, WarnerMedia had planned to shoot a special program of "Friends", which would have been posted on the platform on launch day. It was to be performed on the original set of the series, in the Warner Bros studios in Burbank (California), with Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, the six accomplices of the series .
The series of a generation
According to Variety , they negotiated a fee of $ 2.5 million each for the filming of this single program. But because of the pandemic, the shooting has not yet taken place and the production has decided to postpone the broadcast, said a spokesman for WarnerMedia, confirming information from the site Variety . HBO Max is due to go live in May as planned, WarnerMedia chief strategy officer Sean Kisker told Variety this week.
The launch is considered late because it comes after the wave that saw the offers of Disney and Apple arrive in late 2019, in a market already occupied by Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. The series “Friends” (1994-2004) was a huge audience success and marked a generation of viewers. His arrival on Netflix allowed him to seduce a new audience, confirming the intact popularity of the sitcom, genre that many said about the decline.
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