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Matt LeBlanc turns a Hollywood dream into a nightmare for Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan

Two successful British writers have a dream to break America before it breaks them. Unfortunately they haven't accounted for Matt LeBlanc. With Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan.

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Episodes: Series 1

Matt LeBlanc

Stephen Mangan

Tamsin Greig

John Pankow

Kathleen Rose Perkins

Richard Griffiths

Ben Miller

Lou Hirsch

Daisy Haggard

Joseph May

David Crane

Jeffrey Klarik

Jimmy Mulville

James Griffiths

Episodes: Series 1: Episode 1

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BBC Two - Episodes, Series 1, Episode 1

Things begin to unravel as soon as Sean and Beverly arrive in LA.

Comedy series about the creators of a hit British TV show who move to LA to remake it for American TV, with disastrous results. Matt LeBlanc is hired to be the new lead actor.

Sean and Beverly Lincoln are a happily married English couple, who are also the creators of a hit British TV show. Their life seems complete. That is until a hugely powerful and charismatic US network president persuades them to move to Los Angeles to recreate their show for American television. 

Things begin to unravel as soon as Sean and Beverly arrive in LA. It soon becomes clear that the network president has never even seen their show. To make matters worse, he insists that they replace their brilliant lead actor, an erudite Royal Shakespeare veteran, with... Matt LeBlanc!

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Bev and Sean are successful British writers with a dream to break America before it breaks them, but unfortunately it seems they haven't accounted for one thing: Matt LeBlanc

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