Friends
Summary
Though the serial has been off the air for age , fans are still looking for shows likeFriendsto recapture the feel of one of the most popular TV series in the world . million of people still tune in to see the reruns every day , not to advert all the multitude who are streaming it online . The show picks up new fans all the time , and it was influential enough to cause networks to start ready more series likeFriends .
Right up until the finale ofFriends , it remain a monumental hit . While there is likely never going to be a sitcom that reaches the popularity ofFriendsduring its days of connection goggle box ’s supremacy , there are some smashing shows that capture the same vibration . These have been around since television started becoming popular , shows about a close - knit group of friends as they trust on each other to get through life . Whether these are booster in a working surround , friends that palpate comfortable enough to just walk into each other ’s homes , or champion who have a lifetime of experience together , it is always great to sit down with a serial likeFriends .
The show spoil for alternative , but from " The One Where Everybody find Out " to " The Last One : Part Two , " these Friends installment are the best of all meter .
25Living Single (1993)
frankly , live on Singlewas the design for appearance likeFriends . There was even talk about this on the reunion show that aired on Max . The show premiered one year beforeFriendsand focused on a group of all - Black friends , although one departure was that this mold was mostly all distaff friend . Living Singlewas about four girl who populate in a Brooklyn brownstone and deal with their personal and professional lives . This was also a big winner , as it aired for five seasons , playing out at almost the accurate same meter asFriends .
24Baby Daddy (2012)
Though multiple characters inFriendshave children over the trend of the show , last with those fry is n’t a huge patch point . If it had been , maybe more storylines like those inBaby Daddywould have occurred . The series follows a young man in his 20s whose life sentence is turned upside down when a woman he had a one - night - stand with drops their daughter off at his door so that she can go forward pursuing an acting career . He , his crony , and his two good friends , all enhance the baby together . While the series for certain hasThree Men And A Babyvibes , at its meat , the floor is about the love the meat characters have for one another , and how much they sting together as they uprise up . That ’s very much at the core ofFriendsas well with the character connexion going back to their childhood for some of them .
23Friends From College (2017)
Much of the action inFriendsoccurs when the grouping is in their twenty dollar bill and thirties , butFriends From Collegegoes for a somewhat honest-to-goodness group of champion . Most of the grouping is in their 40 . The group has friendships and romantic relationship that are entwine because of their college days at Harvard . pose in modernistic - daylight New York , the show featuresKeegan - Michael Keyand Cobie Smulders as two of the leads , which mean it also features faultless comedic timing and line manner of speaking . It also features a variety of vocation course and romantic entanglements for the friend radical , like two the great unwashed having an matter on and off since college despite being in committed relationships with other multitude . protagonist From Collegedefinitely has more drama thanFriends , but it has a very alike nervure .
22Coupling (2000)
Couplinghas been call England ’s solvent toFriendsby video critics . The series is set in England but boast a portion of the same ideas asFriends- and a lot more adult humor . Doctor Who’sStephen Moffat produce the series which uses a very similar formula toFriends . The ally group at the centre of the story have three military man and three women who are very focused on their amorous ( and sometimes simply physical ) relationship . The serial was so popular during its myopic run that it won Best TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards in 2003 , aired on BBC America , and get both Greek and American remakes .
21Young And Hungry (2014)
If the aspect ofFriendsthat most appeals to fans is Monica ’s character with her culinary career andjourney to chance love with Chandler , thenYoung and Hungryis certainly a series that can fill theFriendsvoid . It does n’t have a Brobdingnagian ensemble , but it does feature some enceinte comedic performances from Emily Osment and Aimee Carrero . Osment stars as Gabi , an aspiring chef charter to be the personal chef to a technical school enterpriser , but things become complicated after they have a one - night sales booth . Carrero stars as Gabi ’s just friend , who moved to California with her after college , and is pursuing a calling in the business world . The show is most similar toFriendswhen considering Monica and Rachel ’s struggle to break into the business organisation they really know .
20Go On (2012)
Go Ononly lasted for a single season on NBC , and it mostly gets comparisons to Friends simply because it also stars Matthew Perry , who played Chandler . It does , however , have a cock-a-hoop stress on friendly relationship because Perry ’s Ryan finds himself take to lean on a new group of supporter during a particularly hard time in his life-time . Ryan is told to hang sorrow counseling by his foreman after he finds it unmanageable to cope with the death of his wife . so as to keep his job as a sportscaster , Ryan does , and gather an eclectic radical of people at his sustenance group . The grouping is capable to lean on one another and take a serious subject area but find humour in something that is very human . Courtney Cox even guest - asterisk on the show .
Though the six principal actors in the Friends cast have had successful careers since the situation comedy end , they ’ll always be call up for their characters .
19Cougar Town (2009)
The hurl ofFriendswent on to have success on other idiot box show and picture show , and for fans of Courteney Cox , look no further than her next show , the very funnyCougar Town . Just like shows likeFriends , this was about a mathematical group of friends who live close to each other and helped each other make it through animation day by daytime . Friendswas about unseasoned friend recover their agency in the world . Cougar Townwas about older friends , the discussion puma mean the older women in the series looking for love , which included Cox , Busy Phillips , and Christa Miller .
18Episodes (2011)
WhenFriendsended , Matt LeBlanc set out to feel his next gig , and that go from the spinoffJoeyto the superior and very entertainingEpisodes . While LeBlanc could n’t discover the same success inJoeyas he did inFriends , he was grand inEpisodes , which ran from 2011 through 2017 . The situation comedy , which be given on Showtime in the United States had LeBlanc ace as a fictionalize version of himself - a moneyed , magic , and self-important actor who is convinced to take the star role in a show but struggles with his professionalism throughout .
17Golden Girls (1985)
The Golden Girls’theme songcements it as a series likeFriendswith the origin , " Thank you for being a friend . " WhileFriendsis about a group of vernal the great unwashed who be given on each other , The Golden Girlsis a show about what friendship reckon like later in animation . Beatrice Arthur , Betty White , and Rue McClanahan are all seniors who remain the close of protagonist , through thick and lean and through disasters that could destroy the friendly relationship of younger hoi polloi . Add in Estelle Getty as the female parent of Arthur ’s Dorothy , and it is a show that is a relationship finish for female friends of all ages .
16Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013)
If all the graphic symbol inFriendswere cops and the fashion of the show was a spoof of police procedurals as fight to a traditional multi - camera situation comedy , it might look something likeBrooklyn Nine - Nine . This serial publication likeFriendshas a lovable ensemble of characters , a serial of fun multi - episode storylines , and a delightfully wacky , but agreeably harmless sense of mood . UnlikeFriends , Brooklyn Nine - Nineis a workplace comedy , but the comradeliness of copper means the character are just as near as Rachel , Ross , Monica , Chandler , Joey , and Phoebe .
