HBO Max’s ‘Friends’ reunion special has finished shooting after delays pushed it back a full year. The unscripted reunion was alleged to shoot and air last spring but was postponed thanks to the pandemic. But it’s full steam ahead now, and Courteney Cox says the show had tons of special surprises.
Without giving an excessive amount of detail, Cox told Ellen DeGeneres in an interview that the reunion taping was unbelievable, and so emotional.
For the primary time in 17 year, the ‘Friends’ costars – Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt Le Blanc, and Matthew Perry – reunited on the comedy’s original soundstage, Stage 24, to shoot the unscripted reunion special for HBO Max.
The show was originally set to start out taping shortly after the reunion was announced early last spring but was delayed when the primary wave of COVID-19 cases burst onto the scene.
Then special was later pushed to mid-May 2020 in hopes of creating the launch of HBO Max that summer, but was postponed a second time since the pandemic hadn’t lightened. the foremost recent target date to start out shooting was rumored to be August 17, but with new COVID cases spiking again through the summer, HBO resorted to taking the buddies reunion off the calendar with for a short time . Now the show has finally been ready to get cast and crew together for taping, but no release date has been set.
