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Friends was a long-running American television situation comedy centered on lives of six twenty-somethings (eventually thirty-somethings) (3 male, 3 female) living in Manhattan. The program was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television for NBC in the US, first broadcast on that network and followed by other broadcast networks in numerous countries throughout the world. In the US, its first episode was aired on September 22, 1994, the last on May 6, 2004.
In monetary terms, Friends is the most successful sitcom of all time. By the end of the series the six main cast members were each paid $1,000,000 per episode. Advertisements for the series finale, which attracted an audience of over 52 million viewers, cost $2,000,000 for a 30-second spot in the United States and CAD$190,000 in Canada. The last episode was released on DVDDVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. DVDs are similar in appearance to compact discs. History During the early 1990s there were two high density optical sto less than a week after its broadcast.
The show focused on the lives of a group of six friends: Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey, Ross, and Phoebe. As the show begins, Rachel leaves her fiancé at the altar and moves in with Monica, who lives across the hall from Chandler and Joey. They all hang out with Monica's brother Ross, and Phoebe, the "free spirit" of the bunch. The settings for the show include Monica's apartmentMonica's apartment was one of the main focal points of the popular television series Friends''. Originally rented by Monica Geller's grandmother (who let Monica live in the rent-controlled apartment illegally), it was a large apartment with purple walls,, Chandler and Joey's apartmentJoey and Chandler's apartment was not a main focal point for the sitcom Friends in the same way that Monica's apartment and Central Perk were. It acted not so much as a gathering place for the six friends, but as more of a sanctuary for its two residents, and the coffee shop downstairs, " Central PerkCentral Perk was a fictional coffee shop in New York City's Greenwich Village, one of the main focal points of the popular television sitcom Friends. This was the main hang-out of the six main characters, where they spent the majority of their free time.."
Rachel was a spoiled Daddy's girl who gets her first job as a waitress in the coffee shop and later becomes a personal shopper at Bloomingdale'sBloomingdale's is an upscale department store owned by Federated Department Stores, which is also the owner of Macy's. Bloomingdale's has 36 stores nationwide, with annual sales of $1. 9 billion dollars. Its most famous store is the Manhattan flagship sto, then a buyer for Ralph Lauren. Monica is a chef, who for the first several seasons struggles for success. Chandler is a data processor who eventually switches to a career in advertising. Joey is a struggling New York actor. Ross is a paleontologist who works at a museum; in later years, he became a college professor. Phoebe eked out a living as a singer-songwriter and a masseuse.
A constant story line throughout the series is the off-again, on-again romance between Ross and Rachel.