To celebrate the 20th Anniversary, Warner Home Entertainment UK have launched a UK tour for the iconic Central Perk sofa, are releasing a special edition FRIENDS box set, and Comedy Central UK will be broadcasting a special marathon broadcast of every episode from all 10 seasons, and have also created a national voting poll to reveal the UK’s favourite episode.
To kick off the landmark celebrations, a replica of TV’s most famous sofa will be installed with a backdrop at prominent UK locations, giving fans the chance to celebrate the anniversary with their friends, take a sofa selfie and sit on Central Perk’s sofa just as Ross, Rachel, Joey, Chandler, Monica and Phoebe did for all those years.Fans can bring their own friends in on the fun by shouting about their sofa experience on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using #Friends20th. The sofa has already visited Latitude Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Leeds Festival and will be visiting Westfield Shopping Centre and various University’s Freshers’ weeks *this August and September.
Extending the celebration into every living room, Comedy Central, will be taking fans down memory lane from August 23rd with back to back episodes airing every day from 5pm – 9pm. As they go back to the very beginning, starting with the very first episode, ‘The One Where It All Began’ and continuing to play every episode from all 10 series, culminating with the bitter-sweet series finale, ‘The Last One’.
And if that weren’t enough… Comedy Central are also running a Friends 20th Anniversary poll to encourage the public to vote for their favourite ever FRIENDS episode. The top 20 episodes will then be shown in ranking order commencing on Sunday 21st of September. Will it be ‘The One with Ross’s Tan’ or ‘The One With Chandler In A Box’? Visit www.comedycentral.co.uk to vote now before the poll ends on 31st August!
The celebrations don’t stop there, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment are also releasing special edition FRIENDS 20TH Anniversary Box Sets (The Beginning, The Middle & The End) available from 22nd September.
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