The cast of the longest-running show on television with 1,545 episodes, CID, has demanded that they have a reunion show 3 years after going off the air. This was prompted by the release of the FRIENDS reunion episode where the cast got together and reminisced with their co-stars and special guests on set. The show was hosted by James Corden.
CID was initially aired on 21st January 1998 on Sony Entertainment Television and chronicled the cases investigated by Mumbai’s Crime Investigation Department. It focussed mainly on the characters ACP Pradhyuman (played by Shivaji Satam), Senior Inspectors Daya (Dayanand Shetty) and Abhijeet (Aditya Srivastava), Inspector Freddy (Dinesh Phadnis) and Forensic experts Dr Salunke (Narendra Gupta) and Dr Tarika (Shraddha Musale).
The show was a major hit on television and ran for 1524 episodes before going off the air in 2018. The show was a mainstay of the Indian household and was the first introduction the Indian population had to forensic science. The show followed the trend created by Byomkesh Bakshi and the comedy sitcom Karamchand on Doordarshan where these shows revolved around non-conventional investigations and police work.
CID boasted of many accolades during its broadcast including a 111-minute uncut episode which still has a place in the Guinness Book of World records. The show also had plenty of crossovers from various other shows and a huge lineup of guest stars including Sunny Leone, Om Puri, Kapil Dev, R Madhavan, Kareena Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Shah Rukh Khan and the late Sushant Singh Rajput which was quite reminiscent of the guest appearances on FRIENDS.
HBO Max finally premiering the FRIENDS Reunion after years of teasing the fans. The FRIENDS reunion show was not a reboot of the show or an actual episode. It was just the main cast members coming back on the sets of the show once again with guest stars who appeared on the show and exchanging stories.
This was a major disappointment to the millions of fans worldwide who expected it to be an actual episode where Ross, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Phoebe and Joey discuss their lives since the end of the series rather than the actors David Schwimmer, Mathew Perry, Courtney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc discuss their roles and their experience on the show. It was even more disappointing to fans who subscribed to HBO Max expecting to see a whole new season.
Our sources within Sony Entertainment Television have informed us that there has been a series of requests from the cast of CID, to have a similar reunion episode in October 2021. The office of Sony Entertainment has also been flooded with Tweets and mail from fans who want to see their beloved cast on screen again.
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