Showtime Orders More 'Episodes'

Pay cabler renews comedy for third season

By Lindsay Rubino -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/13/2012 12:52:14 PM

Showtime has renewed comedy Episodes for a third season, David Nevins, president of entertainment at the pay cabler announced Thursday.

Produced in conjunction with the BBC, Showtime will begin production on the nine half-hour episodes next year in Los Angeles and London.

Episodes, which stars Matt LeBlanc as a fictionalized version of himself, averaged 1.66 million weekly viewers across multiple platforms in its second season. The show is executive produced by David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik, as well as Jimmy Mulville from Hat Trick Productions.