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Matt LeBlanc, 43, is heading back to TV after a four-year absence, playing a version of his old Friends character in a satire on U.S. network television. There are plenty Friends inside jokes in the new Showtime/BBC comedy co-production Episodes, which tells of the hair-raising process of remaking a hit British TV show into a new program for American network television. Episodes marks a comeback for LeBlanc after 10 years on Friends and another two on the TV comedy Joey, which took his aspiring actor character to Los Angeles and ended in 2006. Episodes is due to premiere on cable channel Showtime in January. It promises to skewer U.S. network television, the short attention spans of TV executives and an industry that Crane described as "ruled by fear, panic and second-guessing" of how audiences and advertisers will react.