Question: How many Americans watched the pilot for the tv show "Friends"?
About the article "Friends", section "Broadcast".

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In its original American broadcast, "Pilot" of the show was watched by 3.05 million. 
United States.
Most watched TV series finales.
The finale is not necessarily a show's most watched episode.
"Friends", for example, had 52.9 million viewers for a 1996 episode that followed the Super Bowl XXX, which is more than the series finale had (52.46 million viewers). 
Richard Vobes got the idea for the show on the way to a gig (He used to be a corporate entertainer) after seeing a furniture shops called 'Snug and Cosy.'
This gave Richard an idea and he invented the two spacemen.
Richard, Nigel and a few friends independently made the pilot episode in 1994 on the budget of around £4,000, the show was originally called 'Snug and Cosy' but changed to 'Snug and Cozi' for the TV series.
The pilot shown them taking off in their pink spaceship and how they crashed landed on earth (after being hit by a large asteroid) into a furniture shop called 'Snug and Cosy' and adopted those names to sound more human and blend in (Not realising how daft those names sound) they then come across an allotment and live inside one of the sheds believing it to be a holiday home.
The pilot was filmed on 16mm film and then sent to various television companies, Scottish Television brought the rights to the show and started production in 1996.
The opening titles to the TV series include clips from the original pilot in the opening titles, the full pilot was never broadcast on TV. 
Premiere year.
The show was the biggest success of the 2004–2005 television season, being well received by both critics and viewers.
The pilot episode had 21.3 million viewers making it the best new drama for the year, the highest rated show of the week, and the best performance by a pilot for ABC, since "Spin City" in 1996.
Along with "Lost" and "Grey's Anatomy", "Desperate Housewives" was credited to have turned around ABC's declining fortunes.
Many critics agreed with Cherry's initial comparison to the popular black comedy film "American Beauty", while its themes and appeal to female viewers were compared to those of the award winning TV show "Sex and the City", and its mysteries were said to resemble those of David Lynch's classic TV series "Twin Peaks".
In its first review, "USA Today" proclaimed the show to be "refreshingly original, bracingly adult and thoroughly delightful" and naming it to be "sort of "Knots Landing" meets "The Golden Girls" by way of "Twin Peaks"".
Following the initial success of the show, the term "desperate housewives" became a cultural phenomenon.
This warranted "real-life desperate housewives" features in TV shows, including "The Dr. Phil Show", and in magazines.
Among the more prominent names to declare themselves fans of the show were Oprah Winfrey, who also dedicated an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to her visit at the film set; and the former First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush, who, in a comedic speech during a dinner with White House Correspondents' Association on April 30, 2005, stated, "Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife", referring to the show.
The show ended up being the fourth most watched in the United States during the 2004–2005 season, with 23.7 million viewers each week.
The first season finale was watched by 30.62 million American viewers becoming the most watched episode of the series. 
 "Acafellas" was watched by 6.69 million US viewers and attained a 3.2/9 Nielsen rating/share in the 18–49 demographic.
It was the tenth most watched show in Canada for the week, with 1.44 million viewers.
In the UK, the episode was shown straight after the pilot episode, and was watched by 1.68 million viewers (1.29 million on E4, and 398,000 on timeshift), becoming the most-watched show on cable for the week.