Matt LeBlanc to star in Showtime/BBC2 comedy series "Episodes"

[Aragorn]

I couldn't put the general plot of the show into the title, but this is the main reason I'm posting this here:

The main idea is about a British couple whose TV show is turned into a dumb American sitcom when the format rights are sold in the U.S.

 

[Jetfire]

Matt LeBlanc sounds perfect then.



I actually enjoyed him on FRIENDS...and FRIENDS is one of my favs.

 

[Aaron McGuire]

I will watch the hell out of this show.

Aaron McGuire

 

[Tulin]

The main idea is about a British couple whose TV show is turned into a dumb American sitcom when the format rights are sold in the U.S.

Oh, so it's a true story?

 

[Trekker4747]

How you doin'?

 

[Kirby]

I'd watch this, that sounds like a funny concept. Toward the end of Friends I found Joey the most watchable character of the group. I always wanted to pound Ross with a shovel, and Chandler and Monica were just too annoying, and I always thought Rachel was a bitch. Phoebe was good too, I did like her.

The whole Joey show was just awful.

 

[The Evil Dead]

Great concept.

 

[Kelso]

That does sound like a show I'd like... and perfect casting.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I do like the inside-baseball snarkiness of Entourage and Curb Your Enthusiasm, so this could be good. But they'll need a Larry David or Jeremy Piven in the cast to serve as the comic center, and I just don't see LeBlanc being that guy.

 

[wamdue]

yes I plan on watching this show as well, hopefully its a hit unlike Moving Wallpaper, that is who we should get on it Ben Millers Jonathan Pope, it could be his attempt at breaking the US.

 

[Kirks_Flying_Wig]

Sounds like a documentary about Coupling from husband-wife team Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue...

Also, isn't LeBlanc morbidly obese now?

 

[Sheep]

Sounds like a documentary about Coupling from husband-wife team Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue...

Was thinking the exact same thing. I've been rewatching Coupling lately and just finished the season 2 DVDs. Talk about a show that holds up EXTREMELY well even if you know all the jokes.

Anyhow, in the extras Jack Davenport talks about how Matt LeBlanc is his favorite Friends actor because of how much effort it had to have taken to make Joey Tribbiani an interesting character for 9 years (or however long Friends was on the air). The man brings up a good point. Most of us think of Joey and "how YOU doin'?" but he's got to have a considerable amount of acting skill beneath the Italian stereotype he played for so long.