"Friends," is coming back for a ninth and final season. The six actors who star in the show, NBC, Warner Brothers Television and Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions signed a deal Monday to wrap up the
series with a final, 24-episode season starting in the fall. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer will all be paid $1 million per
episode for the final season, according to sources close to the negotiations. Their contracts, believed to be worth more than $750,000 per episode now, were due to expire at the end of the season.