The Chinese Friends Spinoff That Almost Was
As the technical coordinator on Friends from 2000 to 2004, Roger Christiansen also got the chance to direct a couple of episodes – one about Joey messing up a Monica-Chandler adoption-recommendation letter and another involving a Joey-Phoebe double date.
But it is several years later in China that Christiansen nearly made an even bigger Friends mark. The show remains hugely popular there and according to an interview on china.org.cn, a Chinese-language spinoff was extensively developed:
From 2008-2010, Christiansen worked with a Shanghai-based team writing original scripts for a Friends-inspired sitcom that would focus on the lives of a group of expatriate professionals in China and their Chinese friends.
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