--- title: 'Friends' Reunion Will 'Never Happen' According To Creator description: 'Friends' co-creator Marta Kauffman broke the hearts of fans everywhere when she told Awardsline that a reunion will "never happen." canonical: https://time.com/4385256/friends-reunion-will-never-happen/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-28T14:20:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:50.891Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Friends' Co-creator Says Reunion Will "Never Happen" og:description: Not on a break. og:url: https://time.com/4385256/friends-reunion-will-never-happen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ed45c18c62c6560/698899af5f570f5789b2181a/friends-reunion-never-happening.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Friends - Season 6 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Friends' Co-creator Says Reunion Will "Never Happen" twitter:description: Not on a break. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ed45c18c62c6560/698899af5f570f5789b2181a/friends-reunion-never-happening.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A 'Friends' Reunion Will 'Never Happen' Says Co-Creator  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 28, 2016 2:20 PM UTC  (Photo by: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) (Photo by: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 28, 2016 2:20 PM UTC [_Friends_](http://time.com/4315044/matthew-perry-matt-leblanc-friends-reunion/) fanatics shouldn’t hold their breath for a [potential reunion](http://time.com/4179320/friends-reunion-happening-nbc/) because it’s still definitely not going to happen. In a [_Deadline_](http://deadline.com/2016/06/marta-kauffman-grace-and-frankie-friends-1201775491/) interview about her current show _Grace and_ _Frankie,_ _Friends_ co-creator Marta Kauffman crushed the hopes of fans everywhere when asked if people still nag her about bringing back the beloved ’90s sitcom. “Yes. They nag me all the time about it and my answer is that Friends was a show about that time in your life when your friends are your family, and in a weird way, this isn’t that different,” Kauffman said. “Once you start having family of your own it changes, and the show was over. A show has a lifespan I believe, it has a lifespan like anything else, and there’s no reason to continue doing it just because people miss the characters. Watch the old ones, there is no way we could win that. And there’s no way it would be satisfying and it’ll never happen. We’ll never do it.” This isn’t the first time that Kauffman has shot down _Friends_ reunion rumors; she told [_Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/30/friends-reunion-will-never-happen)last year nearly the same answer when asked whether a reunion was in the future, noting that, “It’s not that you don’t love those people anymore, but it changes. But to put them back together now when it’s no longer that time of their lives, there’s no reason for the show.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4385256/friends-reunion-will-never-happen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4385256/friends-reunion-will-never-happen/"},"headline":"A 'Friends' Reunion Will 'Never Happen' Says Co-Creator","datePublished":"2016-06-28T14:20:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:50.891Z","description":"Not on a break.","url":"https://time.com/4385256/friends-reunion-will-never-happen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Television","Friends"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ed45c18c62c6560/698899af5f570f5789b2181a/friends-reunion-never-happening.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ed45c18c62c6560/698899af5f570f5789b2181a/friends-reunion-never-happening.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—NBCU Photo Bank via 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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4385256/friends-reunion-will-never-happen/","name":"A 'Friends' Reunion Will 'Never Happen' Says Co-Creator"}}]}] ```