Almost 20 years after NBC’s hit sitcom Friends aired its remaining episode, Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Phoebe, Joey and Monica are coming again to China.
The present, one of the crucial standard American shows of its time, will probably be out there on Tencent, Youku, IQiyi and Bilibili beginning Feb 11 at a tempo of 1 season per week.
It’s not the primary time a Chinese viewers could have entry to Friends.
IQiyi first launched the present in 2012; it has come and gone on quite a lot of native streaming companies since.
The newest launch is notable given China’s rising restrictions on American leisure.
The variety of US movies launched in China has fallen sharply within the final two years, and a few of the hottest US tv shows, together with The Good Wife and The Big Bang Theory, have been unavailable since 2014.
The authorities requirement for streaming firms to search approval to air overseas shows and flicks got here into impact in 2015. – Bloomberg
