Graham Linehan

The fourth series of Graham Linehan's sitcom about the otherworldly technical support team at Reynholm Industries comes to an end with a divorce fight between sleazy Denholm Reynholm (Matt Berry) and the wife he hasn't seen since she disappeared while washing the car. The ensuing courtroom battle features an appearance in the witness box from former employee Richmond (Noel Fielding) - now the founder of the business training enterprise "Goth 2 Boss".

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Moss loses his gigantic mind and bunks off work for the afternoon. With Roy standing dumbly by, he thrills to his newfound freedom. Meanwhile, Jen has bet Roy £100 that he can't ditch the phrase, "Have you tried turning it off and back on again?" for a whole day. As usual, Graham Linehan's magnificent mind draws all the strands together in a barkingly funny denouement. And the whole episode is in flashback. And there's an awesome cameo by Kevin Eldon as an unintelligible customer support telephonist. Beat that, other comedy writers.

This witty sitcom romps on as Jen surpasses herself in the blagging stakes by pretending she can speak Italian. This gives her the edge on rival Linda but when sleazy boss Douglas wants her to translate at a meeting, she realises it may be a bluff too far.

Back in the basement, Roy's love life turns puzzling. Is new girlfriend Julia tragic or psychopathic? His need to know the truth becomes as obsessive as Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

Moss, unbothered by love or office politics, reserves his obsession for the latest gadget - but comes unstuck when old technology fails him.

The writing is as sharp as one would expect from writer/director Graham Linehan (Father Ted, Black Books), but Roy's transformation from head-over-heels in love to pathologically suspicious is beautifully and hilariously portrayed without a word being uttered.

If you're not a lover of The IT Crowd, tonight probably isn't a good time to dip in. Even by writer Graham Linehan's standards, it's a clatteringly silly episode, full of whimsical touches and half-jokes thrown together in a blender and served up as a frothy comedy smoothie. But if you do like the show, the beautifully performed nonsense delivers surreal laughs: Roy goes to a gig and puts his back out dancing in the mosh pit. Meanwhile Jen has fallen in love with the keyboard player of the band and takes to singing. Plus, Douglas Reynholm takes up Spaceology.

The IT Crowd series 4 episode 3 review

After a brilliant second episode, Graham Linehan's The IT Crowd misfires with its third... As Moss himself puts it, "There is nothing remotely funny about this."

The IT Crowd series 4 episode 3 review #2

After such a strong episode last week, it's frustrating to see it descend into such laziness. Graham Linehan has criticised other sitcoms for using swearwords as punchlines, and yet here he is having his cake and eating it.

Imagine a secret club populated by Countdown winners and their beautiful Countdown-loving groupies. Now imagine Moss penetrating this geek fantasy world and you'll get the gist of this week's show. A disgruntled former champion challenges Moss, codename Word, to a gruelling game of Street Countdown, and Moss rises to the occasion. Elsewhere, Jen tries to break into one of Renham's seedy departmental meetings and Roy gets mistaken for a window cleaner, in a winning episode of Graham Linehan's celebration of all things nerdy.

The fourth series of Graham Linehan's workplace comedy continues. In tonight's episode, Jen (Katherine Parkinson) finally decides to attend the weekly head-of-department meetings she's been avoiding. She arrives to find a mysterious gathering of women in dressing gowns. Meanwhile, geeky Moss (Richard Ayoade) triumphs as a contestant on Countdown and gains access to a secret nightclub for past winners.

The IT Crowd series 4 episode 2 review #2

Series four of Graham Linehan's techno-baby The IT Crowd got off on the wrong foot for me last week. This week, however, we're firmly back in IT Crowd country!