What makes a classic TV show?

It’s 10 years since Friends wrapped, an event watched by over 52 million viewers, making it the fifth biggest television finale in US history.

JERRY SEINFELD turns 60 on April 29 — but because his TV show remains so iconic, he will be forever 30-something in audience imaginations. He once famously described his sitcom as “a show about nothing”.

When Seinfeld ended in 1998, it had become one of the most successful comedy series in history, so much so that NBC offered the star $5m an episode to continue. “We thought it would be a show just for people like us,” Seinfeld told Larry King. “We thought it would just be for people we knew who wanted a certain type of humour. We thought maybe we’ll find a little niche, survive two or three years and that’s it. Our ambition was never more than that.”