Episodes

Tamsin Greig on her election vote

Telegraph Wonder Women #womenmustvote campaign: The actress Tamsin Greig urges women to use their voices and admits she's always voted Labour unlike her Conservative parents.

Episodes will be back for a fifth series says LeBlanc

BBC Two comedy in which the Friends star plays a version of himself alongside Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig will be back for another run - but LeBlanc is in no hurry to get back to work.

TV review: Episodes, series 4, BBC Two

Reliable laughs and behind the scenes comedy from Matt LeBlanc, Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig.

Matt LeBlanc and Stephen Mangan interview

TV Choice met Matt LeBlanc and Stephen Mangan to chat about Series 4 of Episodes.

Episodes, BBC2

When Wimbledon Studios went into receivership just before shooting began on Episodes' fourth series, producer Debs Pisani had her work cut out keeping the production on track.

'Episodes' season 4 preview: more Hollywood mayhem

Four seasons on, Showtime's Episodes reads like an affectionate breakup letter to Hollywood. It's the "I love you, but..." Its primary source of humor is and always has been the pain that's caused by the very industry the series is a part of, and there's nothing more painful - and therefore more entertaining - than what happens in season four, which premieres tonight in the USA.

David Schwimmer set to appear in Episodes with LeBlanc

TV stars David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc are set to reunite for BBC show Episodes, according to a newspaper report.

Now the cat is out of the bag - or, more accurately, the script is in front of a newly off-his-meds Castor - the net appears to be closing in on Bev and Sean, forcing them to stay in LA and potentially make the show that everyone already seems to love. Bev's sense is prevailing, but Sean is wavering. Soon, Carol is offering them the world, while new agent Eileen has the networks fighting over them. Is the carrot enough? Or are they afraid of getting beaten by the stick all over again? Last in the series.

Radio Times review

Plot twists! Mad monologues! Laugh-out-loud moments! Once again, Episodes builds up a head of comic steam just in time for… the end of a series. It's as if the writers work back from the finale and use previous instalments to fill in gaps. Fair enough if you're writing, say, a conspiracy thriller, but odd with a sitcom, where you need to fire zingers each week.

All the same, it's a joy to see Tamsin Greig given some comic red meat for a change. Moaning and snarking has become Beverly's default mode, from which Greig can work wonders, but now things kick up a gear. Her and Sean's script is suddenly the hottest thing in Hollywood, but Beverly doesn't care. She wants out. Cue a lovely, farcical climax with a furious routine from Beverly about Hollywood power games, using a china teacup as a prop.

It's not the only set piece of the episode. Elsewhere crazy network boss Castor lays into the TV business from another angle, in a public implosion that ends with the memorable sign-off, "How about that, my zombies?!"

What will happen in series 4 of Matt LeBlanc comedy?

As Sean and Beverley finally flee LA in the series three finale, it looks as if something might drag them back for a fourth season...