Showtime picks up Episodes for a fifth (and maybe final) season
As reported by Deadline, Showtime’s Episodes—the comedy series in which Matt LeBlanc plays a fictionalized version of himself—has just been picked up for a nine-episode fifth season. Thanks to the low number of episodes that cable networks air per season, those nine episodes will put Episodes just shy of the number of episodes of Joey that NBC produced (many of which never aired). Isn’t that weird? Like, we think of Joey as this huge flop, but it ran for almost two full seasons. Meanwhile, Episodes has been on for four—soon to be five—and we’re still bringing up Joey when we talk about Matt LeBlanc.