Episodes — Specials
7 episodes
E1Red Button: Interview with the Cast (1)
Jan 20119m
Matt LeBlanc, Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig talk about making Episodes, with Executive Producer Jimmy Mulville. Matt, Tamsin and Stephen talk about the programme's evolution, working with writers David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik, and what it is like to be an actor in Hollywood. ...and Stephen reveals Matt's handy audition tip!
- E2
Red Button: Interview with the Cast (2)
Jan 20118m
Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan talk to Executive Producer Jimmy Mulville about making Episodes. They discuss the realities of filming in different locations and how Episodes used green screens. What the business that is show means on both sides of the Atlantic. And how writing for different voices means exploring the variations between American and British English, which Tamsin discovered in episode 2.
- E3
Red Button: Interview with the Cast (3)
Jan 201110m
Exclusive from the BBC's Red Button, Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan talk to Executive Producer Jimmy Mulville about making Episodes. They discuss how the cast were able to suggest script changes, including the use of language used by the British Sean and Beverly.
- E4
Red Button: Interview with the Cast (4)
Jan 20118m
Exclusive from BBC's Red Button, Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan talk to Executive Producer Jimmy Mulville about making Episodes. In this clip, the actors discuss how they would make each other laugh during a scene. Plus, how writers David Crane and Jeffrery Klarik have used parts of Matt's real-life character in some scenes.
- E5
Red Button: Interview with the Cast (5)
Feb 20117m
Exclusive from BBC's Red Button, Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan talk to Executive Producer Jimmy Mulville about making Episodes. Stephen Mangan talks about performing the final scene of the fifth episode. The cast also discuss what stage directions they dread reading.
- E6
Red Button: Interview with the Cast (6)
Feb 20117m
Exclusive from BBC's Red Button, Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan talk to Executive Producer Jimmy Mulville about making Episodes. Matt LeBlanc analyses his character's intentions in what he calls "the ultimate manipulation". Whilst Tamsin Greig describes the hand gesture which put her off her lines and the bruises she claims to have had permission to give.
- E7
Red Button: Interview with the Cast (7)
Feb 20119m
Matt LeBlanc, Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan talk to Executive Producer Jimmy Mulville about making Episodes. Matt and Stephen discuss the delicate balance of playing a fight scene for comedy. In what Matt describes as "two men and a cactus", he recalls watching Stephen trying to locate the prickly plant with his bum.
