Is Friends Being Taken Off Netflix Canada?

We got to the bottom of the rumour

is friends being taken off netflix canada

Could we be any more upset with Netflix right now? Yesterday, the streaming service sent viewers into a panic when they added an expiration date of January 1, 2019 onto the Friends details page on the streaming service’s American interface. Fans, likely queuing up a classic like “The One With Ross’ Wedding,” were understandably shook. All we could wonder was is Friends being taken off Netflix Canada, too?!

The vicious rumour that the popular sitcom starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc would be taking a break from Netflix quickly circulated online with some fans even starting a petition to stop Friends’ Netflix departure on and demanding answers from the streaming giant like: 

We’ve come to rely on shows like The Office and Friends being *there for us*—cue Friends theme song—when we need them most, like when it hasn’t been our day, our week, our month or even our year, or those times when you need comforting background noise during a gruelling laundry folding session (or is that just me?). What in the name of all that’s funny and binge-worthy are we to do without those 236 classic 22-minute episodes—that’s 5192 minutes, or 86.5 hours, of pure entertainment potential—just waiting for us to hit “play”?! 

Thankfully, Friends fans’ deepest, darkest fears were swiftly assuaged when both Netflix US and Netflix Canada’s Twitter accounts confirmed that the series, which originally aired on NBC from 1994 to 2004 and joined Netflix Canada in January 2015, would be available “through 2019.” 

Crisis averted. (For now.) If they come for The Office next, we won’t survive it. 


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