“When David and I lived in New York, we had a group of six friends. Ever the creative, Marta penned 13 episodes of the show.ĭavid and Marta came up with the simple premise of Friends from their real-life experiences together. It aired for six seasons on the streaming service, beginning in 2015.
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Marta, 64, cocreated the Netflix series Grace and Frankie, starring the legendary Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Kauffman recently finished the Netflix comedy. It can currently be found streaming on Netflix. Marta Kauffman is an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning television writer, producer, director, and showrunner. David, 63, cocreated Friends star Matt LeBlanc‘s successful Emmy nominated BBC comedy Episodes, which ran for five seasons. The Kirstie Alley-led comedy lasted three seasons, from 1997 through 2000.ĭavid and Marta both went on to have long and successful careers after Friends. It was one of the lucky shows to get the sitcom ratings juggernaut as a Thursday night prime time lead-in. But the big money came rolling in following syndication proceeds, which the magazine has pegged at $475 million for the creative team.ĭuring Friends‘ tenure on NBC, David and Marta cocreated Veronica’s Closet. “Not in a mean way – it’s just people acknowledging it was long overdue.Over the show’s 10-year run, the team of David, Marta and Kevin made an estimated $70 million in producer fees, according to Forbes. “I’ve gotten a lot of, ‘It’s about time,’” she told the Times. Kauffman said she had received supportive messages after announcing her gift. The professorship Kauffman plans to establish within Brandeis’ African and African American studies department aims to support scholarship on the peoples and cultures of Africa and the African diaspora. “I really felt like Ross should date other people, women of all races,” Schwimmer said. Schwimmer said in a 2020 interview that the lack of broader cultural representation was “wrong” and he described advocating for his character Ross to date diverse women. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago.”Ĭharacters of color on Friends were largely fleeting. It’s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. “Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. Cast members of the hilarious sitcom hit headlines back in 2002. “I’ve learned a lot in the last 20 years,” she said to the Times. The creator of Friends, Marta Kauffman, has admitted that she thinks the cast were overpaid. Previously, Kauffman co-created and served as executive producer on the critically acclaimed comedy series Dream On for which she received an Emmy Award nomination and a CableAce Award. Kauffman said Friends’ lack of diversity illustrated how she had internalized that systemic racism. Marta Kauffman, creator of the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie also co-created and executive produced the Emmy Award-winning series Friends.
“That was really the moment that I began to examine the ways I had participated. “It was after what happened to George Floyd that I began to wrestle with my having bought into systemic racism in ways I was never aware of,” Kauffman said.
Kauffman said that she had initially felt Friends was unjustly singled out for its racial and ethnic homogeneity, saying, “It was difficult and frustrating.” But she said now she feels that criticism was fair. “At a time when the television landscape is becoming increasingly diverse and inclusive, it’s uncomfortable – if not outright inappropriate – to raise a glass to a sitcom that was so blind to the multiculturalism of the world where it took place,” Greg Braxton noted. When HBO last year streamed Friends: The Reunion, an LA Times diversity writer said it wasn’t “a moment of celebration for everyone” and that it might have been subtitled “The One Where They Ignored Diversity – Again”. Many wondered how, on Manhattan’s racially diverse Upper West Side, the characters seemed to exist without interacting with any residents or visitors of color. “So you can watch it in order, or you can watch your favorite episodes.”īut after Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd in 2020, triggering racial justice protests across the country, Friends became a target of criticism. “Yes, it’s a sitcom, but it’s also a soap opera,” Austerlitz told the Times. The show earned tens of millions of dollars in syndication and streaming for its creators and cast, including Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer.Īfter Netflix announced it would drop the sitcom in 2019, Saul Austerlitz, who wrote Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era, said Friends occupied a central place in American pop culture. Kauffman said it was initially “difficult and frustrating” to see Friends criticized for its lack of diverse characters in a show that ran for 10 seasons after it premiered in 1994, according to the Times.
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