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he first reunion of American sitcom Friends, starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer, has been unveiled, revealing that the episode will premiere on Warner Bros' broadcasting service HBO Max on May 27. HBO Max is not available in India right now. The producers also announced that the guestlist for the episode includes celebrities such as David Beckham, Justin Bieber, BTS, James Corden, Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevingne, Lady Gaga, Elliott Gould, Kit Harington, Larry Hankin, Mindy Kaling, Thomas Lennon, Christina Pickles, Tom Selleck, James Michael Tyler, Maggie Wheeler, Reese Witherspoon, and Malala Yousafzai.

Created by David Crane and Martha Kauffman, Friends is shown on the American television network NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, which lasts for ten seasons. It is now available to Indian audiences on Netflix, including the top 10. Sure, Warner Media Entertainment may have given India a chance when it launched HBO Max in the United States last May but the company could bring the stadium to the country soon.

“If you want to be a strong international player, you have to be strong in the Asia-Pacific. In India, we do not have the scales we need and where we should be. To get there, the work that will work will be HBO Max, "Gerhard Zeiler, head of international affairs, Warner Media had said last September at a fire conference at APOS Summit 2020, an event hosted by Media Partners Asia, an independent provider of research, advisory, and consulting services to all media outlets, Asia Pacific telecommunications, and technology Zeiler did not elaborate on the launch of the program.

While Warner already has a foothold in countries like China and Japan, in a decade, the company is demanding 70% of revenues from international markets as opposed to the current 30%, he added.