Irish Daily Mirror

Friends will now be there for you after Netflix deal

Former One Direction star expects a whirlwind year

- BY DEMELZA de BURCA

Friends cast IT’S been more than a decade after the final Friends season wrapped but Irish fans still can’t get enough of the show.

When Netflix revealed it was acquiring the popular US sitcom, one fan yesterday hailed it as “the best New Year’s gift”.

All 10 series of the show, which aired on TV from 1994 to 2004 but has been repeated, is now available on the streaming service in Ireland and the UK.

Netflix announced the news on Twitter, posting: “We’ll be there for you. All episodes of #Friends, now streaming.”

It had hinted the show’s arrival was imminent a few days earlier.

Fans told of their joy after the series became available yesterday.

One wrote: “You can now watch all 10 seasons of friends on Netflix and I couldn’t be happier what a way to start 2018.”

The show, which made huge stars out of Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Matt Leblanc and David Schwimmer, finished 13 years ago after 236 episodes. With One Direction

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Niall Horan course of the year I’ll start writing. With jamming at sound checks and things like that, things always come up – little riffs and bits and pieces.”

In a separate interview last month, Horan also hit back at online trolls

He told Esquire: “Back in the day it used to be that you’d read stuff and be like, ‘Aw, is that what they think of me?’ But the way the world turns is you can do no right, so I’ve just gone past the point of caring.

“Apparently all these people who are writing to you are perfect, so they have every right to say that to you. So they can go f*** themselves.”

This year I’ve done stuff I never imagined and it’s all thanks to you guys

NIALL HORAN

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