Friends "remake" with Sterling K. Brown, Uzo Aduba, Ryan Michelle Bathe to stream Tuesday

Let’s be clear: Friends was really an all-white Living Single. But now David Schwimmer is getting his wish and the internet is being gifted a Friends reading with an all-Black cast. The special event, taking place Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET, is part of Zoom Where It Happens, which is described as “a new live table read series presented by Black women artists to raise awareness, intention and activation around voting rights. Hosted by former Friends guest star Gabrielle Union, the reading will be of a “remake” of the season-three bottle episode “The One Where No One’s Ready.” Tuesday’s event features real-life couple Sterling K. Brown and Ryan Michelle Bathe as Ross and Rachel, Aisha Hinds as Monica, Jeremy Pope as Chandler, Uzo Aduba as Phoebe, and Kendrick Sampson as Joey.

“We’ve selected popular four-quadrant shows to attract a wide cross-section of potential voters,” Bathe says in a press release of the reading series, which kicked off Sept. 8 with a Golden Girls reading hosted by Lena Waithe and starring Tracee Ellis Ross, Regina King, Alfre Woodard, and Sanaa Lathan. “We’re thrilled to see how many people have embraced the series and are actively motivated to get out the vote this November.”