Season 3 cast lead Matt LeBlanc has reportedly confirmed that both Showtime's series Episodes and the show within a show, Pucks!, will be returning for Season 4. Stephen Mangan should be happy. Spoilers: He loves spending time with Leblanc both on and off camera.
Matt Leblanc has no problem playing the egomaniacal version of himself on Showtime's hit series Episodes, which also airs on the BBC; in fact, the 46-year-old Friends vet relishes it.
Leblanc told Boston Common that if he became typecast as the man recovering from the loss of being able to play Joey for people's amusement, then so be it (via Just Jared):
"I can think of a lot worse problems to have than being stuck with people's perceptions of Joey. If people think that's who I am, then I've done my job.
"Now I'm pigeonholed as an asshole version of myself. But that's fun.
"It's a fictitious character, and you just have to approach it that way. He just happens to have the same name I do."
Co-star Stephan Mangan told iSubcribe that pigeonholed or not, LeBlanc's on screen man-child persona isn't too far off the mark from his real life personality:
"[Matt] is a 14-year-old boy in a man's body.
"We go to his ranch north of LA and drive around on quad bikes. Of course there were going to be quad bikes."
It's a good thing Mangan had fun, because to hear Leblanc tell it the series is definitely coming back for at least one more season, and it's bringing Pucks! back with it (via Zap2It):
"[The creators] are starting to brainstorm for Season 4 and they know where it goes. They have the bones of the season, but they haven't started actually writing it. I've heard some ideas, it's great.
"Because Merc found out that I got this pilot, he calls Elliot Salad and says, 'Matt LeBlanc's doing that big pilot over at NBC and I wouldn't wanna be the guy who canceled a show and the star went across the street and had a hit, wouldn't wanna be that guy.
"So they pick up six more episodes of Pucks! with no intention of airing them."
Episodes airs on Showtime Sunday nights at 10:30 p.m.
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