Episodes

Friends favorite Matt LeBlanc teams up with David Crane of the Friends fame and Jeffrey Klarik of Mad About You to serve up a single-camera comedy about a the television business. The Showtime project will focus on the funny process of reworking a hit British show for American audiences. (taken from here)

After a long time with little or nearly no interesting new shows to watch I finally found one that’s worth being promoted.
The show is called Episodes and is an attempt to integrate Matt LeBlanc into a show other than Friends. And what can I say …. it is great!!
We’ll have to wait for the story to unfold but what I saw so far looks promising.
Matt doesn’t try to make the Friends history forgotten and that is quite an achievement these days. Everybody thinks of him as Joey and to ignore that would be catastrophic. Nobody would buy a different character. That being said, Matt certainly needs to shift the publics view of himself to something else in order to be interesting and maybe usable for other things like movies or different shows.
This format is perfect for that. The viewer gets Joey and the “real” Matt (which is obviously the publics view of him and not himself).
The concept of the show is also not to dry and that will make it a big hit in the future. I’m curious how Matt will unfold that challenge.

I love it.

January 10, 2011 | Categories: Comedy, real life | Tags: Episodes, Friends, Joey, Matt LeBlanc | Leave a comment