Hey, how you doin'? Friends finally comes to Netflix UK
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For all you box set binge-watchers yet more temptation lies ahead, with Netflix revealing Friends can now be streamed in the UK and Ireland.
Subscribers to the streaming service can see all 10 series of the successful US sitcom featuring Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Monica, Joey and Chandler.
Netflix recently teased the arrival, tweeting: "The One with the Show Everyone's Been Asking Us to Add."
Repeats of the show were broadcast on Channel 4 and E4 until 2011.
The show, which is currently aired on Comedy Central UK, starred David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox.
They played a group of easy-going friends living in New York, with the series including guest appearances from stars like Julia Roberts, Bruce Willis and Tom Selleck.
We'll be there for you. All episodes of #Friends, now streaming. pic.twitter.com/utAoC0oE4y
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) January 1, 2018
Friends also featured cameos from Brad Pitt and David Arquette, who at the time were the real-life husbands of Aniston and Arquette respectively.
At its peak it spawned catchphrases, calendars, notebooks, mugs, T-shirts, video and DVD box sets and even copycat hairstyles - as Aniston's layered cut became known as "the Rachel".
The last ever episode, from series 10, drew an audience of 8.6 million viewers to Channel 4 when it was screened in 2004. It drew a whopping 51.1 million people in the US.
Responses to Netflix's tweet were largely positive.
— Ryan Love (@RyanJL) December 30, 2017
Friends is on Netflix guys. I repeat, F.R.I.E.N.D.S is on NETFLIX. pic.twitter.com/WvTiqaFeTj
— Dashveen (@DashyDashKaur) January 2, 2018
Me: 2018 will be a year of normal sleeping patterns
— F I S A Y O (@naijahijabi) January 1, 2018
Netflix: *uploads Friends* pic.twitter.com/2rpbOEmIz4
But not everyone was pleased - some felt that the show has already been shown "a million times over", and requested The Office US instead.
Everyone has seen Friends a million times over. Bring back The Office US.
— CJ (@FatMacsFatWife) January 1, 2018
But Netflix responded by joking that binge-watching the show was the way forward.
If you quit your job and watched eight hours of Friends a day you'd complete it in two weeks. You know what to do. pic.twitter.com/GXOi7q3E2g
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) January 1, 2018
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