Friends Star LeBlanc Heads Back to Small Screen

05 October 2009

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Former Friends star Matt LeBlanc is hoping to make U.S. and U.K. audiences laugh again with a new TV comedy - three years after the actor's spin-off series flopped.

LeBlanc will play himself in Episodes - a comedy about the television industry.

The show will follow a husband-and-wife producing team whose hit comedyon British TV is turned into a dumbed-down American sitcom starring the actor.

LeBlanc made Friends fans laugh as Joey Tribbiani for a decade, but failed to find success with his spin-off series Joey, which was cancelled in2006 after two seasons.

Episodes will begin shooting in London and Hollywood this winter (09).

The programme is set for a 2010 debut on America's Showtime network and the U.K.'s BBC Two.