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Episodes
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 2011 - 2018
- 41 episodes (5 series)
Anglo-American sitcom about a British couple who try to recreate their UK sitcom hit for American audiences with disastrous results. Stars Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan, Kathleen Rose Perkins, John Pankow and more.
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LeBlanc, Greig & Mangan on giggling during Episodes
Keeping a straight face appears to be the biggest challenge facing Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan as they shoot their hit TV comedy Episodes.
Helen Bushby, BBC News, 5th May 2014Episodes can carry on without Pucks, says Matt LeBlanc
Matt LeBlanc has said that Episodes can prosper even without its fictional TV show Pucks.
Tom Eames, Digital Spy, 5th May 2014Stephen Mangan: 'Episodes could go on and on'
Stephen Mangan has said that Episodes could go "on and on" as the writing gets richer with every series.
Mayer Nissim, Digital Spy, 5th February 2014Episodes series three: Stephen Mangan Q&A
During a break before his evening performance in Jeeves and Wooster on the London stage recently, British actor and funnyman Stephen spoke to AccessHollywood.com about what fans can expect when Season 3 of Episodes kicks off tonight at 10:30 PM ET/PT on the American Showtime network.
Jolie Lash, Access Hollywood, 12th January 2014BBC Two sitcom Episodes gets a fourth series
Episodes, the sitcom starring Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan, has been renewed for a fourth series.
British Comedy Guide, 12th December 2013Episodes to send up LeBlanc's Graham Norton appearance
Showtime comedy Episodes will use Matt LeBlanc's real life appearance on The Graham Norton Show as a storyline for the fictionalised version of himself on the show.
Christopher Hooton, Metro, 21st January 2013Series two provided little respite for downtrodden British writers Sean and Beverly as they fought to keep their sitcom - and marriage - alive whilst all around them in La La Land were losing their heads. It didn't help that Beverley (Tamsin Greig) had slept with the show's star Matt LeBlanc (Matt LeBlanc), or that Sean (Stephen Mangan) was now sleeping with the female lead. The second season of Episodes continued to offer a smart, funny, hyper-real story of 'normal' people trying to make it in Hollywood.
Tim Glanfield, Radio Times, 25th December 2012BBC Two sitcom 'Episodes' given a third series
Episodes - the UK-US co-produced sitcom starring Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan - has been given a 3rd series.
British Comedy Guide, 13th September 2012After the unmitigated failure that was Friends spin-off Joey, this British-US comedy threw Matt LeBlanc a potentially dubious lifeline.
In it, British screenwriting couple Sean (Stephen Mangan) and Beverly (Tamsin Greig) are tasked with adapting their subtle sitcom for a US audience but it is rendered almost unrecognisable thanks to ratings-crazed network execs who insist on casting one Matt LeBlanc in the lead role.
LeBlanc plays the floundering fall guy with glee, creating a fictionalised version of himself as the epitome of LA douche baggery.
The success of Episodes' humour lies in its assassination of throwaway US sitcoms, coupled with the ever-so-English pair's squeamishness towards Hollywood life.
It is a risky comeback role for LeBlanc but the risk paid off - just one season in and he bobbed up clutching a Golden Globe.
Christopher Hooton, Metro, 12th July 2012Episodes: series two, DVD review
Sophie Haslett reviews series two of Episodes, the soft Hollywood satire starring Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig and Matt LeBlanc.
Sophie Haslett, The Telegraph, 10th July 2012