The IT Crowd
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4
- 2006 - 2013
- 25 episodes (4 series)
Sitcom set in a computer support department. The staff are IT geeks Roy and Moss, and their boss Jen, who knows nothing about computers. Stars Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Chris Morris, Matt Berry and Noel Fielding
Streaming rank this week: 148
Press clippings Page 15
The IT Crowd awarded a 5th series
Channel 4 has ordered a fifth series of its BAFTA-winning sitcom before the fourth series has even aired.
British Comedy Guide, 26th May 2010Hive mind! Engage!
...and we're off! Three weeks to go, five and a half scripts done, casting begun, location scouting next week...it's all happening! And once again, we're asking for your help in populating The IT Crowd office with cool bits.
Graham Linehan, 14th February 2010Graham Linehan Night, More4
Graham Linehan's comedies are wonderfully surreal and self-evidently funny, but it's the warm-heartedness at the heart of Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd that makes them endlessly rewatchable. Of course, it's a quality that makes them a sound choice at this time of recumbent vegetation, and so here More4 does the decent thing and not only screens Black Books - the demented Dylan Moran/Bill Bailey-starring series about despotic bookshop proprietor Bernard Black - but also follows it up with episodes from Linehan's other offerings. More enjoyable madness follows tomorrow.
The Guardian, 31st December 2009Was I too hasty about The IT Crowd?
For two years straight, I gave The IT Crowd worst show of the year. I only judged it so harshly because I expected so much. I mean, it was written by Graham Linehan and I love him. I probably shouldn't tell you this... it's probably bad journalistic form or something... but I think it'll make you laugh.
mofgimmers, TV Scoop, 2nd March 2009Episode 3.6 Review
I still say this third season has been The IT Crowd's best, but the latter-half definitely dropped the ball. The slack pace, cruel elements and paucity of belly-laughs was 'Calendar Geeks' undoing.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 30th December 2008Episode 3.5 Review
The penultimate episode of this much-improved third season is sadly its weakest. The idea of satirising social networking sites is rich ground for comedy, but nothing is taken to any particularly original directions by writer Graham Linehan.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 20th December 2008Episode 3.4 Review
A good, solid episode all round. Once again, this was far funnier after the advert break than before it, which is quite common for IT Crowd's set-up and pay-off style.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 13th December 2008Whenever he appears, playboy boss Douglas Reynholm threatens to take over this sitcom and make it his. Matt Berry's barnstorming performance as Douglas is entirely in tune with Graham Linehan's writing: it's daft but so confidently, riotously daft that you can't help wanting to know where it leads. If there's a drawback, it's that Linehan's ideas can be more brilliant than his plotting.
Radio Times, 12th December 2008I've said before that this is not the greatest sitcom in the world, but it's better than a lot of the rubbish that's been slarted out in the name of the comedy over the last year. Parents of the Band, anybody? Shudder. Tonight, Matt Berry steals the show once again as Douglas, the sleazy boss of the company as he's interviewed by a journalist. Those three in the basement do some stuff too.
Mark Wright, The Stage, 12th December 2008Episode 3.2 Review
Overall, 'Are We Not Men?' was definitely one of the better IT Crowd episodes in a long time.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 29th November 2008