Showtime and BBC2 have been working together on a new sitcom, Episodes, in which a successful British comedy is remade by an American network – and ruined. Starring Matt Le Blanc as “Matt LeBlanc”, the star of the new show, this also sees former Green Wing stars Stephen Mangan (who’s in BBC4’s Dirk Gently tonight) and Tamsin Greig as the British writers experiencing something of a culture shock.
The original trailer went up a while back, but now there are two new trailers as well as a behind the scenes vid (yes, that is Jimmy Mulville. The real one).
What do you think? I think it actually looks pretty funny.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
