NETFLIX FANS RAGE 'DO YOU WANT US TO GO INSANE?!' AS STREAMER ANNOUNCES REMOVAL OF FRIENDS VERY SOON
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Netflix fans have been left furious after the streaming service announced they will be removing sitcom Friends from their site this month.
The hit series, which originally aired on NBC from 1994 to 2004, has been available on the platform since 2018, with all ten seasons available to watch.
Now, viewers have been informed that they only have days left to watch the series, as the episodes will be removed from Netflix on December 30.
Friends, which stars Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox, Matt Le Blanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry, follows the lives of six pals living in New York.
It features a mammoth 236 episodes, giving fans more than 88 hours of viewing time.
Those who regularly tune in to watch back their favourite episodes have been left bereft by the news, and took to social media to complain.
One penned: 'Removing Friends on 30th dec…. so you want me to go insane? Count your days Netflix,' as a second added: 'You cannot take Friends off Netflix. It is my anti-depressant at night. Every night without fail I watch it.'
A third wrote: 'I saw that Friends is leaving the platform, and I just wanted to share how much this show means to me.
'It’s the series I turn to when I’m happy, sad, stressed, or celebrating something. Watching Friends while eating my favorite dinner is one of my small joys in life.'
While a fourth agreed: 'How can Netflix be taking Friends off in UK? Literally the ONLY thing I go onto Netflix everyday for, I watch it non stop back to back, my absolute comfort show, may as well cancel my subscription.'
As a fifth concluded: 'Genuinely heartbroken Friends is being taken off of Netflix.'
Friends will depart the streaming site alongside another hit sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, created by Two and a Half Men writer Chuck Lorre.
The American series was first added to Netflix UK in 2016, with later seasons released annually until 2019 when the show came to an end.
For six years, fans have been able to stream all twelve seasons.
It comes after Netflix users were left raging as the streaming service issued an update on Stranger Things' newest instalment that disappointed UK fans.
The sci-fi series returned to screens earlier this month for its fifth and final series, which is being released across three drops to the streaming site.
And after a painstaking three-year wait between seasons, with the last episodes released in 2022, fans have been quick to tune into the first four episodes.
So far, viewers have been reintroduced to main character Eleven, played by Millie Bobby Brown, and her band of friends, Mike, Will, Lucas, Dustin and Max.
Fans will have to wait until December 26 to find out what unfolds in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, next - with the grand finale following on January 1, 2026.
While many had been hoping to head to the cinema for one of the official screenings of the final episodes, fans in the UK were left distraught to find out that it wouldn't be possible.
The official account penned: 'The plan? secure your seat TOMORROW for the fan screenings of the epic series conclusion of Stranger Things. *in US and Canada only.'
Responding to the news in the comments of the post, fans expressed their disappointment and outrage, as they hit out at Netflix for being 'cowardly'.
Friends is available to stream on Netflix until December 30.
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