Jennifer approves of Netflix deal
Streaming service has paid $100m to keep playing ‘Friends’
Jennifer Aniston calls it “amazing” that Friends still has an audience big enough to prompt multi-million dollar business deals to keep it from disappearing on Netflix.
“I find it amazing that it’s continued to have such love and such an audience and such an appetite for it,” Aniston said on Thursday at the premiere of her Netflix film Dumplin’.
After an outcry from fans, Netflix announced earlier in the week that it was keeping the adventures of Ross, Rachel, Phoebe and Joey available to subscribers through 2019 — at a reported $100 million (Dh367.2 million) price tag to the streaming service.
“I think it says a lot about the show. Especially since it takes place at a time where it’s so different from now. You know, people actually spoke to each other and hung out with each other and talked,” Aniston said.
Warner Media owns the show, which aired on NBC for 10 years ending in 2004.
Netflix paid more than triple the $30 million a year it had been paying for Friends, The New York Times reported last week.