Warren Littlefield

A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.

I fought to make a multiple series commitment with John Wells.

A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was on for seven seasons, and we got a lot of awards, and a lot of faces came out of that show and have had great careers.

While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.

What Must-See T.V. was all about was one network, one night, for one decade. And a third of the country would come and watch Must-See T.V. And you didn't dare go to work the next day, because if you hadn't watched, you would be left out of the conversation, that water-cooler conversation.