So much for the Friends curse… The latest addition to our lists of cancelled shows of 2012 and renewed shows of 2012 comes from the hand of Joey Tribbiani. Showtime renews Episodes for season three.
Third season renewal order for Episodes consists of nine episodes that will start production next year with double duties in Los Angeles and London.
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We were asking ourselves a little while ago if Pucks was getting cancelled? We still don´t know about that, but we know for sure that Episodes is renewed by Showtime for a second season. It was announced today by David Nevins, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc.
Half-hour comedy series Episodes, starring TV icon Matt LeBlanc as a fictional version of himself, received a second season order with the number of episodes to be determined.
This news of Episodes renewal should not surprise anyone, since the show was not only good but also performed well on Showtime.
“To have the opportunity to make another series of this show with David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik and then to make that show for both Showtime and the BBC, whose combined portfolios of comedy are second to none, is both a thrill and a great privilege,” said executive producer Jimmy Mulville. “At the end of the first series the writers have placed our three protagonists in the middle of comedy hell. Like the rest of the audience I can’t wait to see what is going to happen to them!”
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You know here we review all the cancelled and renewed shows of the season. But in this case this one is different. The show is not an actual show, but a show within a show. Sean and Beverly came all the way from England to shoot the pilot for Pucks hoping to match the success of the show back in the UK. And they landed Matt Leblanc as the star… of course that will make things go different than they expected and luckily for the audience of Episodes, funnier!
Sean and Beverly’s odyssey through the American television business comes to an hilarious conclusion as
Showtime’s acclaimed comedy series Episodes heads towards its finale.
Deeply regretting her tryst with Matt (Matt LeBlanc), Beverly (Tamsin Greig) returns home to find Sean (Stephen Mangan) waiting with open arms. As the pilot for the “Pucks!” pilot wraps, Sean and Beverly prepare to return to London. A final goodbye between Matt and Sean, however, takes an unexpected turn involving a missing Jaguar, a red-nosed reindeer and the smell of cinnamon.
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Matt Leblanc is back… and now he plays himself in the new Showtime show Episodes.
A new episode of Episodes called Episode Six (Nice jiggle puzzle there). Convinced that Sean is having an affair with Morning, Beverly packs a bag and leaves, intending to head back to London. However, in her distress, she is unaware that she’s driving on the left side of the road. Beverly doesn’t realize her mistake until she has a head-on collision – a collision which leads her down a road with even more dire consequences.
Beverly: Do you have pre rolled joints in your purse?
Carol: Yeah well, I also have tampons in my purse but I only use them once a month
Carol: Merc´s just one of those guys. Sometimes he needs to be reminded of the people he loves
Beverly: Back on you?
Carol: Oh so what?
Morning: Don´t bullshit a bullshitter
Morning: You don´t shit where you eat
Sean: How about toilets in restaurants?
Beverly: This isn´t about the fucking show
Sean: I have no interest on her whatsoever
Beverly: I saw you wanking on her the other night
Matt: Oh, come on! You?
Beverly: I am not speaking with him
Matt: If you want to teach him a lesson, why not driving him?
Sean: There´s nothing going on between me and Morning
Merc: I wouldn´t blame you if you are
Merc: You and me, we are the last of the good guys
Recap by DetectiveBriscoe
As Matt and Morning get primped on set, Bev glares at them. Matt assures Morning that Bev is just mostly hating him and she’s just getting co-hated.
Carol arrives and asks Bev if she’s trying to kill Morning with her mind. It’s not working.
When Morning starts worrying that Carol hates her, too, Matt tells Morning she crazy and asks how many diet pills she had today.
Bev tells Carol about catching Sean wanking to Morning’s sex tape last night. Carol knows the tape — Merc used to make them watch it because “it helped him.”
Sean comes over to the women.
Carol asks Bev if she’d like to get lunch on her day off tomorrow — with Merc. Carol says there’s a chance Merc may have cooled on the show.
The next day at his house, Sean gets ready to go surfing when Morning pulls up. She wants to talk to Bev because she’s worried she hates her.
Sean tries to stop her, saying she’s just a little jealous. Morning can’t possibly understand why. Sean says he might not have helped things by telling her about their “moment” at the dinner. Morning has no idea what he’s talking about.
“Are you being funny? I can’t tell when you’re being funny,” she says.
He reminds her about when she asked for a ride home after the charity thing. She tells him it wasn’t a moment, she was too drunk to drive. Besides, she lives with her boyfriend. And she’d never hook up with her boss.
She wants to talk to Bev about things. Sean says that’s not how British people work.
“Our people don’t like talking about stuff. We prefer suppressing the stuff and letting it fester. It’s kind of our thing,” he says.
Sean assures Morning that talking to Bev will only make things worse.
Bev looks out the window and is stunned to see Morning in her driveway, talking to Sean.
He tells her to just let it go until they’re done shooting the next day. Bev watches, but can’t hear that Morning is only worried about losing her job.
Sean and Morning hug, which looks awful to Bev, but Morning follows up by telling him it also wasn’t a moment. When Sean comes inside, Bev is packing.
She announces she’s going home. (We’re back to the first episode.)
He tells her they only have a week of shooting left. He thinks it’s about the show and has no idea what’s really going on.
She finally tells him she saw him wanking to Morning the other night. He tries to explain. She says she saw Morning there just now. He’s trying to explain what was going on, but she can’t hear him over the leaf blower. As he’s trying to get the guy to turn it off, Bev gets in her car and drives off down the wrong side of the road.
Matt comes toward the house, losing the battle with his voice activated call phone to call “Bob” and gets “Mom” instead. He and Bev crash almost head on.
Matt gets out and sees his car is wrecked. He very calmly asks her if she’s OK, checking that she’s not light headed or anything is broken. He waits until she’s out of the car and OK and then shouts “who the f—- drives like that?”
Bev can only meekly protest that she confused her countries.
Matt was coming to go dirt bike racing with Sean.
Sean calls Bev and she ignores it. Then he calls Matt and says he has to cancel. He says he had a fight with Bev.
Matt doesn’t say anything about Bev standing right there as Sean says she packed a bag and left.
As Matt and Bev are standing next to their wrecked cars, a star tour bus comes by and see Matt. The driver gives him the “How you doing?” and asks if he’s ever going to work again.
Matt calls his assistant to deal with the crash, but notices Bev is bleeding down her forehead.
Sean calls Bev from outside the lunch with Merc, assuring there is nothing going on with him and Morning other than some “garden variety masturbation.”
Matt takes Bev back to her house and stops her bleeding. He offers her a drink.
She tells him she was going back to London and the show can’t get worse without her. He thinks it’s good.
She says it’s not smart or unique enough.
She tells Matt about Sean having lunch with Merc.
“It’s really not good?” Matt asks.
Bev explains that their show was originally about a witty, urbane head master and now it stars “Joey” as a hockey coach. She tells him every change they’ve made has been his fault.
Sean leaves another message for Bev as Marc arrives.
Sean tries to tell Merc that the show is going well and the hockey coach idea is working. Merc seems uninterested. Then he asks Sean if he could see Matt as a conman, in a one-hour comedy drama.
Merc excuses himself to go hug somebody.
Watching the ocean, Matt tells Bev he really wanted the show to work. Bev says they could go back to the original script and recast.
Matt tells Bev they sent him a script about a con man.
Bev says she knows about Sean and Morning, and tells Matt not to bother saying nothing’s going on. She worries that she’ll come out like a bitch in the situation, which she doesn’t think she is. She says she thinks it just means she has integrity.
“Right, that’s why people always say ‘She’s such a f—- person with integrity,’” Matt says.
At lunch, Merc babbles about feta cheese. Then he asks if his wife knows about the thing with him and Morning.
Flash back to Carol astride Merc, who seems barely aware that someone is having sex with him. His tie is still on and he’s checking his Blackberry. He doesn’t want to have lunch with them and demands to know one interesting thing about them. Carol tells him he might be screwing Morning.
Sean insists there’s nothing going with Morning. Merc says he’s been there. He advises him not to do anything with Morning. Merc says he’d never cheat on his wife because they have a great thing.
Bev asks Matt if he’s ever been cheated on. She asks why he cheated. He says he wasn’t thinking.
Bev suddenly says Matt taught Sean well. She asks why he invited Sean and Morning to the benefit when he had two tickets.
Sitting on the couch, Bev starts blaming him. She kicks him. He lets her for awhile, then pins her down to make her stop.
Then, with him on top of her, holding her hands, she asks if she feels what she thinks she feels. Bev insists Matt’s disgusting, but doesn’t seem to believe it.
He tells her to say stop if she wants.
As he gets excited, she senses that the rumors about him being fabulously well-endowed are true.
She says stop, then kisses him.
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Matt Leblanc is back… and now he plays himself in the new Showtime show Episodes.
Tonight a new episode of Episodes called Episode Four aired (I had to put it like that). This time Sean and Beverly have to retrieve Matt from a seedy bar outside of LA so that the paparazzi waiting outside won’t see him driving home drunk. What follows is an all-night road trip which takes the trio from a run-in with a paparazzo to Matt’s ex-wife’s house and finally to his son’s bedroom, where Matt is forced to confront the mess he’s made of his life. The transformative evening even manages to bring Matt and Beverly closer together. The question is: for how long?
Student: I´m only twelve. Are we having this conversation?
Student: She was shooshing you. She´s a librarian. That´s what they do
Matt Leblanc: That´s not the only thing they do
Student: Again. I´m twelve
Matt: “What do you know about gay?”
Student: “Both of my dads are gay,”
Matt: “Jesus. Both of them? What are the odds of that?”
Beverly: Did I mention I hate this show?
Sean: Might have come up
Sean: Oh my God, she´s older than you
Beverly: Oh you fucker
Sean: Well, that´s what you are thinking isn´t it?
Sean: She´s so plastic. Those boobs… Yack
Beverly: Mmhhmm
Sean: I´m telling you. I like the real thing. Give me a woman who looks her age… five years younger than her… seven years younger…ten… you are a fetus
Beverly: Walk away Sean, just walk away
Matt: I´ll be fine. I´ll just give the judge a couple of “How you doin´s”
Morning: Alright, my girl likes the dick
Matt: He can´t high five
Beverly: It´s good you made a titty friend
Sean: Give her you evil glare… not me… her!
Matt: Don´t look at her, look at me
Matt: It´s like I´m Captain Hook and he´s the Crocodile following me with the ticking clock
Matt: Are you wearing your pijamas?
Beverly: I didn´t realize we were going to a place this elegant
Diane: If you wake them I´ll break your fucking arms
Recap by Detective Briscoe
On set, filming the pilot for “Pucks”. Matt, as the hockey coach, ogles the librarian. He talks to a student, who tells him he thinks the librarian is gay.
“What do you know about gay?” Matt asks (in character). “Both of my dads are gay,” the kid says. “Jesus. Both of them? What are the odds of that?” Matt asks.
After the cut, Bev grumbles that she hates the show. Bev gets passed a note from the crew and says it’s about Morning, whose age she is obsessed with.
Sean says he doesn’t care, then grabs the note. Morning is older than Bev. Sean tries to say he likes the real thing.
“Give me a woman who looks her age,” he says, then realizes he’s stepped in it. “Five years younger? Seven? Ten? You’re a fetus?”
Bev advises him to walk away.
Later, Matt calls Morning over to settle something. Matt mentions he’s on the way to a custody hearing. He’s not worried. “I’ll just give the judge a couple of ‘How you doings?’”
Morning asks Sean if they’re going to have catch phrases. Sean says they’re cheesy. “Cheesy? Tell that to my house in Malibu,” Matt says.
Matt has Sean confirm to Morning that her character isn’t gay anymore. She goes for a high five, but he’s inept.
She has him try again, then goes for the fist bump. When he manages, she throws herself around him with a big bosomy hug. Bev glares.
Later at home, Bev grills him about Morning. Sean tries to avoid the inevitable argument and is saved by the phone ringing. It’s Matt, calling drunk from a bar.
He lost his custody hearing and wants Sean to pick him up.
“I’m sorry he lost his children, but can’t he take a cab?” Bev asks.
Bev wonders why Matt called him and Sean insists he and Matt are friends. Bev insists on going with him.
They pull up to see Matt’s car and a lone paparazzo waiting outside.
Inside, Matt says “you brought her?” when he sees Bev.
He insists Bev and Sean join him for a drink. Sean says they have to be on set at 7 a.m. and want a rain check.
Matt tells them the paparazzo outside is his nemesis, dating back to 10 years ago when he smashed his camera, and his head may have been involved.
Matt says he’s like the alligator with the ticking clock inside him.
Bev laughs, surprised at the “Peter Pan” reference.
“I’m full of f—– whimsy,” Matt insists.
Sean suggests Matt go out back and they’ll distract the crocodile.
Outside, Sean asks the paparrazo to take their picture, saying he just proposed. He offers the guy $100 as Matt sneaks out the back. But then Matt ends up creeping around the lot. He shouts, asking which car is theirs.
The photog gets his pictures.
In the car ride home, Matt complains about the paparazzo and tries to light up. Bev tells him not to, even though they’re in a convertible. The GPS woefully misguides them. It’s broken, but they don’t know how to turn it off.
Matt tells them he had a rule in his custody agreement not to have girls over when the kids were there, and the nanny had to be there. He insists he didn’t have someone over.
Sean figures it was the nanny. “She was already in the house! That shouldn’t count,” Matt says.
One of the boys walked in on them.
Now he only gets to see them every other weekend. “Every other weekend, just for screwing the nanny? She’s not even that hot!” he insists.
Bev scoffs and they start bickering.
Matt directs them to pull up to a house, where he crawls up the front stairs and pounds on the door. Watching from the street, Bev and Sean wonder where they are. They’re not in Malibu and no one is answering.
Bev and Sean go to investigate. A woman answers. Matt wants to see the boys. It’s his ex-wife Diane. She can see he’s drunk, but he wants to see the kids. He promises not to wake them up.
“Just once, don’t be a c—?” he says.
Somehow this works and she lets them in to see the kids.
The four of them stand in the boys’ room, admiring them. Matt raves about the older one just winning a talent competition.
Matt is pained about seeing them only every other weekend. “I’m such an a—–.”
In the car home, Bev tells Matt his kids are cute. Matt gets maudlin, talking about how quiet the house is without the boys. Bev offers to let him stay at their place.
She and Sean are both shocked by the offer.
Matt thanks them for coming to get him. He tells Sean he was sure he’d come, but he wasn’t expecting Beverly.
He actually gets her name right. It’s a touching moment, until he pukes a little on her shoulder.
Back home, Sean thinks the evening will make the difference between her and Matt.
The next day, Matt comes downstairs and immediately back to calling her Betsy. He’s stunned there’s no coffee in the house.
Their maid comes in and is stunned to see Joey in the house. She gives him a “how you doing?”
In Spanish, he asks the maid if Bev is a head ache. Bev is mocked and totally left out.
Sean comes downstairs and can’t believe the tension is back.
And then Kendra comes downstairs. Apparently Matt woke up in the middle of the night and called her. They met at Jamba Juice.
Then Kendra tells a long, anti-climactic story about introducing Matt to a new juice.
Sean hustles everyone off for the day.
“Has anyone seen my dog?” Kendra asks.
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