Friends is an American sitcom about six friends struggling to survive on their own in Manhattan.

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But the American sitcom is also one of Channel 4's biggest hits, bringing audiences of up to five million across the country.

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NBC's adaptation is successful because it takes the central message from the BBC creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's work, the well-used notion that life is really about the unexpected significance we find in everyday human interactions, and absorbs it into the modern American sitcom.

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Last spring her firm, along with producer Burnett, sold the WB a pilot for a sitcom that followed an American family motoring around Europe.

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In the 1980s this meant visitors could be forgiven for thinking they had arrived on the set of a wacky sitcom, perhaps made for the Central American market, in which the actors, all speaking American with a Latin twang, were masquerading as the nation's public figures.

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Among its stars were Jenny Agutter - who went on to appear in An American Werewolf in London and Logan's Run - and Sally Thomsett, who later starred in sitcom Man About The House.

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