Showtime has purchased all those funny little Lisa Kudrow “Web Therapy” shows where Kudrow plays an advice guru dispensing via the Internet.

Now Showtime plans to convert them into three 5-minute segments, which it plans to insert into the pay channel lineup “in some interstertial stuff.”

Web Therapy is an improvised online television series starring Emmy award winning actress Lisa Kudrow as Fiona Wallice, a therapist who has conceived of a new form of therapy; namely the titular Web Therapy. In her estimation, the traditional “50 minute hour” version of therapy gives people too much leeway to talk about irrelevant things. By dramatically shortening session time, she hopes to get results more quickly. Her sessions take place via webcam over the internet. They are taped in the hope to attract investors into streamlining her new technique as a worldwide therapy option.

A dark comedy, much of the humor revolves around Fiona’s obvious self-interests and how they overshadow her legitimate ability to suss out people’s issues quickly and effectively. (For instance, in Season 1 Episode 2 “Sibling Ribaldry”, she manages to completely clarify a couple’s romantic emotional issues in thirty seconds, but does so only to bring them around so that she can then film them discussing more trivial sexual issues that are more shocking.)

The series has featured appearances by a number of prominent comedians and actors including Bob Balaban, Rashida Jones, Tim Bagley, Dan Bucatinsky, Jane Lynch and Courteney Cox.

Web Therapy is currently filming a third season with guest stars such as Julia Dreyfuss and Selma Blair.