Saul Austerlitz, the author of the book Generation Friends, says in an excerpt published by Entertainment Weekly that Aniston had shot several episodes of a CBS sitcom titled Muddling Through early in Friends history.
Jennifer Aniston almost had to leave Friends during its first season, a pop culture historian has revealed.
According to EW, if Muddling Through was picked up, Aniston would have had to quit Friends, an NBC show, halfway through the first season.
The rest is history: Muddling Through aired for just 10 episodes on CBS, between July and September 1994.