--- ---  # The _Friends_ Creators Want You to Know a Reboot Will Never, Ever Happen 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. The show lives on with amazing vitality.” Friends Creators: Reboot Will Never Happen ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4219173/friends-creators-reunion-not-happening/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4219173/friends-creators-reunion-not-happening/"},"headline":"The Friends Creators Want You to Know a Reboot Will Never, Ever Happen","datePublished":"2016-02-12T15:48:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:00.743Z","description":"\"We finished the show exactly the way we wanted to finish it\"","url":"https://time.com/4219173/friends-creators-reunion-not-happening/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdad0a6a1b88fcba2/69887d63a988ca4d816b6922/gettyimages-154575495.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdad0a6a1b88fcba2/69887d63a988ca4d816b6922/gettyimages-154575495.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Friends - Season 6","caption":"Friends - Season 6","creditText":"NBC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4219173/friends-creators-reunion-not-happening/","name":"The Friends Creators Want You to Know a Reboot Will Never, Ever Happen"}}]}] ```