How desperate is NBC for ratings...

...or how much do the stars of Friends need the money. NBC has inked a deal that will give us 4 one hour episodes of Friends some time next year. It seems that each star will "earn" $5,000,000 each for doing the shows. NBC's ratings have been sagging since Friends went off the air - heck they were sagging before, but nobody wanted to mention it. So this would make their ratings go through the roof - at least for one month. None of the stars of the show have done anything significant since the show wrapped - Matt LeBlanc stared in a spin off that was decent but by no means great, Jennifer Aniston has stared in a couple thoroughly mediocre movies and divorced Brad Pitt-Jolie (a good move if you ask me), Courtney Cox has started a production company with her husband that is yet to produce anything of significance, David Schwimmer voiced the giraffe in Madagascar, Lisa Kudrow was in the disappointing Happy Endings and Matthew Perry has not really done anything that I know of. I'm guessing the only reason they would do this is to see their value in hollywood continue to stay high. Unfortunately for them this will make the idea that they are one sided actors (which is true for Schwimmer) more prevalent and perhaps make it so fewer people are willing to actually use them in some other type of roll. I can already see it: Friends - Grandparents. I thought the show ended on a good note, now they're going to wreck the illusion that "they lived happily ever after" by providing more content to work with. I really liked the show when it was on, but I think this is a really bad idea for the legacy of the show and the actors.