Matt LeBlanc's cult comedy Episodes is coming to an end after its fifth season, which is due to air in 2017.
US network Showtime, which produces the series with BBC Two in the UK, confirmed that the show's upcoming fifth season will be its last.
The Emmy Award winning show, also won LeBlanc a Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy Actor for his portrayal of a brash and egotistical version of himself who gets the lead in a new sit-com, a US remake of a British hit written by a writer-director couple played by Tasmin Greig and Stephen Mangan.
Production on its final seven episodes begins next week. Writers David Crane and Klarik said in a statement: "We have had the best time making this show. Showtime has been the opposite of every network we write about.
"If it were up to them we could go on making Episodes forever. But we've told the story we set out to tell, and we'd never want to outstay our welcome."
LeBlanc said that he is "sad to see it end" but added that they "had a lot of laughs together" while making the show.
Table read for season 5 tomorrow. It will be fun. Sad to see it end but we all had a lot of laughs together. https://t.co/qcP2iQ6ODg
— Matt LeBlanc (@Matt_LeBlanc) April 11, 2016
LeBlanc does have his hands full with his new job as one of the presenters of Top Gear, which will make it's long awaited debut next month.
Last month he got himself in hot water after month himself and a professional driver were seen driving around the Cenotaph war memorial in London. After an outcry the BBC said the controversial footage would not be shown on television.
LeBlanc is one of the new hosts of Top Gear
