Friends could see 10th season
By BroadCasting & Cable Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 7/25/2002 8:00:00 AM
The door to another season of Friends appears to be open just a crack.
During the NBC portion of the Television Critics Association press tour, NBC Entertainment president Jeff Zucker suggested that the sitcom might continue despite previous word that the show's next and ninth season would be its last.
"I don't want to ever believe that it's absolutely going to be the end . I think it's most likely the final season, but I wouldn't 100 percent rule it out," Zucker said.
The show's producers were less optimistic.
"We're certainly approaching this as if this is the last season and sort of planning our stories accordingly," executive producer David Crane told a packed house.
Added executive producer Kevin Bright: "If this was not going to be the last season, we would have to know that, like, now, because everything is planning toward that, and so it's not something that can be a last-minute decision."
If that sounded like the door closing again, Marta Kauffman wouldn't let it shut: "[It's] not that we couldn't come up with another season if that were in front of us, but it does feel a bit like things are coming full-circle; our characters are growing up, it may be time. Also, we don't want to overstay our welcome."
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