Tuesday 22 February 2011

Episodes

Episodes is the story of two English writers, Beverley (Tamsin Greig) and Sean Lincoln (Stephen Mangan), who move to Hollywood to remake their hit UK TV series. 

Having won an award in the UK for their series they are approached at the after show party and offered a lucrative deal to remake it in the US. Sean can't wait but Beverley is reluctant to move.

They arrive in Hollywood and it seems that the studio can't do enough for them but when Matt LeBlanc is cast in the lead role they realise that they have little or no control over their programme. Things between Beverley and Sean deteriorate as he embraces the lifestyle and becomes friends with Matt LeBlanc (who insists his character should be more like Joey from Friends).

There were seven episodes and it ended last night with the studio commissioning the series.  Hopefully this means that there will be another series of Episodes itself.

This has been a great series.  Mangan and Greig have a chemistry that comes over on screen and their Englishness is the perfect contrast to the over exagerated characters of Matt LeBlanc and John Pankow (Studio Executive Merc Lapidus).  For once an Anglo American comedy that works!