News about Marta Kauffman

Julien's Auctions held their Friends 30th Anniversary Auction on Monday where a studio-made reproduction of the iconic couch from the opening credits sold for an eye-popping $29,250. The orange velvet sofa - which was initially estimated to fetch $2K-$3K - featured carved brown resin paneling lacquered to look wooden and copper-color tassels adorning the front skirt.

Friends creator Marta Kauffman has spoken out about Matthew Perry following the arrest of five people in connection to his accidental overdose death last October.  Perry, who was 54 at the time of his passing, was well-known for portraying the quirky, likable character Chandler Bing on Kauffman's wildly successful series. Speaking with The Times, the 67-year-old TV writer shared what she thinks is the best way to honor the late actor.

More than 52 million viewers tuned in to watch the series finale of Friends on May 6, 2004 and some of them may had already known what to expect. The show's creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane revealed on TODAY this morning that part of the final episodes' script had leaked before its premiere. 'Oh my god, we tried so hard to keep it a secret. We were desperate to keep it a secret and it got out. And it was it was an inside job,' said Kauffman. According to Crane, the scripts were numbered and sent out before the episode's premiere.

The hugely popular comedy turned its six stars into household names as well as giving us 'The Rachel' - one of the world's most famous haircuts. In the USA over 52million tuned in to see how things would end for the gang while, in the UK, close to 9million watched as the last episode aired 10 years after the first. Today, Friends continues to be screened all over the world, attracting a new audience of Millennial and Gen Z viewers, with many picking up on its outdated attitudes and non-PC qualities.

JAN MOIR: Should we be surprised that both the RAF's Red Arrows display team and the inner circle of the Conservative government, supposed citadels of discipline and excellence, places where we might expect superior manners and exemplary conduct, have both turned out to be dank pits of boorish male behaviour? The big boys revel in their female coemings. Women in places where women are regarded as either interfering rodents or potential sex partners, who are never judged on the bossy-o-meter or the allure of their boobage, not by their abilities or skills. Dear God, has nothing changed in the last thousand years? It's enough to make a woman stick a hairdryer up her nostrils of moral despair. The Red Arrows' display team's anarchic culture discovered that predatory behavior against women was "widespread and normalized." It was all going on full throttle, inside or out of the cockpit, with unwanted physical contact, sex messages, and pleas to sexually engage.

Following Matthew Perry's unexpected death at the age of 54, the creators of Friends paid a loving tribute to him. Following Marta Kauffman's suspected drowning on Saturday, co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane, as well as producer Kevin Bright, have released a joint statement.

Sitcoms have been a staple on television for decades. During challenging times for those who need a laugh, viewers flock to them. In the 1990s and 2000s, the period was particularly popular. However, some of these sitcoms have seen a revival and have become even more popular now thanks to the domination of streaming services. Now World of Statistics has ranked the top sitcoms of all time based on its IMDB rank, and it may surprise you to see which TV shows made the top ten, out of ten.

Eric Weinberg, a long-serving television presenter, was charged with 18 charges of sexual assault between 2014 and 2019. According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney, he was said to have'relied on his Hollywood credentials' to lure young women to photo shoots where he reportedly assaulted them. Two new civil cases accused 62-year-old Weinberg of rape, including one on a woman in his daughter's bedroom, last week. Now, a recent Hollywood Reporter has more elaborated on his suspected predatory behavior over a long career, during which he appeared on programs including Scrubs (top-inset), Veronica's Closet, and Californication. The magazine interviewed many people who worked with Weinberg during the period, many of whom were young women, as well as a portrait of an influential man who displayed inappropriate conduct and overt misogyny (and an industry willing to turn a blind eye). Top Right: Kayra Raecke, a restauranteur, is one of hundreds of women who have accused Weinberg of sexual harassment. Bottom-right: Avian Anderson, 33, who told Hollywood Reporter before how Weinberg used his fame to lure women in.

In a rare public appearance for the actor, Matt LeBlanc was seen on a shopping spree on Monday. At a Ralphs supermarket in Encino, California, the Friends star, 55, picked up some essentials. For his outing, the former Top Gear host wore a Ford branded t-shirt, blue jeans, and a baseball cap.

As considering their backgrounds, Friends actor Lisa Kudrow addressed the lack of diversity on the show's foundations, saying that the show's writers, David Crane and Marta Kauffman, had 'no corporate writing stories about the benefits of being a person of color.' In a story with The Daily Beast on Wednesday, the 59-year-old actress discussed the issue in a story more than two years after she said that the show had no representation in the series's ten seasons. Crane and Kauffman created material that they did not know about from their personal lives, according to Kudrow, who appeared on Phoebe Buffay on the comedy from 1994-2004.

Despite rising fame as a beloved sitcom "Friends" and cocreator Marta Kauffman, the show has been chastised for the lack of representation and plurality. Kauffman has mainly addressed the show's lack of LGBTQ+ visibility and representation, eventually admitting that Chandler Bing's transgender parent was misgendered. In a forthcoming episode of BBC's "The Talk," people claimed that Helena Handbasket, portrayed by Kathleen Turner, should not have been referred to as Chandler's father. "We kept referring to her as Chandler's father even though Chandler's father was trans," Kauffman said. "Pronouns were not yet something that I understood, so we didn't refer to them as'she,'" explains the actor.' That was a mistake.