{"id":5050,"date":"2016-02-04T16:52:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2016-02-04T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T22:26:45","slug":"nbc-friends-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/nbc-friends-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Friends&#8217; hold rare reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By MELISSA CABRAL<\/p>\n<p>Looks like they&#8217;ll\u00a0be there for us one more time.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 12 years since the show&#8217;s record-breaking finale aired in 2004. NBC has announced that the stars of the hit show, &#8220;Friends&#8221;, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc will all take part in a new two-hour special honoring director James Burrows on Sunday, Feb. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Noticeably absent from the announcement\u00a0is co-star Matthew Perry, who played the sarcastic\u00a0character, Chandler Bing on the show. It was announced that the actor would not be able to make the reunion as he is in London in rehearsals for his play.<\/p>\n<p>The cast is reuniting to partake in a special tribute honoring\u00a0the comedic director, Burrows, who directed 15 episodes through out the 10 seasons of the show.\u00a0Although this is a special about the director, fans from all over the world, including myself, are eager to see the cast mates back together after all these years.<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour &#8220;Must-See TV: A Tribute to James Burrows&#8221; will air at 9 p.m. ET Feb. 21 on NBC.\u00a0The special will also bring together other iconic casts. Among them: &#8220;Mike &amp; Molly,&#8221; &#8220;Taxi,&#8221; &#8220;Cheers,&#8221; &#8220;Frasier,&#8221; &#8220;Laverne &amp; Shirley,&#8221; &#8220;The Bob Newhart Show&#8221; and &#8220;Will &amp; Grace.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MELISSA CABRAL Looks like they&#8217;ll\u00a0be there for us one more time. It&#8217;s been 12 years since the show&#8217;s record-breaking finale aired in 2004. NBC has announced that the stars of the hit show, &#8220;Friends&#8221;, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courtney &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/nbc-friends-reunion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-5050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-melissa-cabral","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5075,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions\/5075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}