--- title: Friends Creators: Reboot Will Never Happen description: "We finished the show exactly the way we wanted to finish it" canonical: https://time.com/4219173/friends-creators-reunion-not-happening/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-12T15:48:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:00.743Z og:title: The 'Friends' Creators Want You to Know a Reboot Will Never Happen og:description: "We finished the show exactly the way we wanted to finish it." og:url: https://time.com/4219173/friends-creators-reunion-not-happening/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdad0a6a1b88fcba2/69887d63a988ca4d816b6922/gettyimages-154575495.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Friends - Season 6 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The 'Friends' Creators Want You to Know a Reboot Will Never Happen twitter:description: "We finished the show exactly the way we wanted to finish it." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdad0a6a1b88fcba2/69887d63a988ca4d816b6922/gettyimages-154575495.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The _Friends_ Creators Want You to Know a Reboot Will Never, Ever Happen > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=fbd55f86-9f82-4b3f-88cb-1056638e1084&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1) by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 12, 2016 3:48 PM UTC  FRIENDS -- Season 6 -- Pictured: (l-r) David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani -- (Photo by: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) FRIENDS -- Season 6 -- Pictured: (l-r) David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani -- (Photo by: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) NBC/Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 12, 2016 3:48 PM UTC David Crane and Marta Kauffman, the duo behind _Friends_, truly cannot emphasize the following statement enough. A _Friends_ reboot is not happening. It’s never going to happen. In a [recent interview](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/friends-creators-a-reunion-show-863087) with the _Hollywood Reporter_, Crane and Kauffman tried — as they have [many](http://time.com/3839615/friends-marta-kauffman-sitcom-netflix-nbc/) times [before](http://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/news/a24586/friends-creators-dismiss-any-chance-of-reunion-or-spinoff-its-over/) — to make that clear. Even though the cast (minus Matthew Perry) will appear in an upcoming [NBC special](http://time.com/4207557/first-look-friends-reunion-nbc/), a reboot of the show is just not in the cards, as much as fans may want it. Sure, shows like [_Full House_ ](http://time.com/4213654/netflix-fuller-house-trailer-ellen-show/)and [_Gilmore Girls_](http://time.com/4200873/netflix-gilmore-girls-return/) may be getting revived on Netflix, but not _Friends._ “It will never happen, but no one tends to believe me,” Kauffman said. “It shouldn’t happen. That show is about a time in your life when your friends are your family. Once you start having a family, that time of your life is over.” Crane added: “We finished the show exactly the way we wanted to finish it. To revisit those characters just seems like a bad idea — you don’t want to see them hang­ing out in the coffeehouse now. And the good news is, you can see them whenever you want to. 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