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: 144
Press clippings Page 18
Off The Telly Series 1 Review
Linehan avoids the trap of simply mocking the two characters for being geeks, and instead makes them both sympathetic. Given that most viewers in real life are more likely to be on the side of the beautiful people rather than the IT department, it's a reasonably brave decision, particularly when the show mocks the lack of IT savvy among those viewers.
Rob Buckley, Off The Telly, 3rd March 2006And the silliest programme is . . .
The IT Crowd (Channel 4) started on Friday night with a double bill -- a wholly unprecedented launch technique for a sitcom, and one that displayed Channel 4's understandable smugness in continuing to secure the oeuvre of Graham (Father Ted, Black Books) Linehan. Linehan's sitcom worlds are the most instantly recognisable of the last 20 years: very traditional set-ups, with very conventional characters (the eccentric, the buffoon, the drudge, the drunkard, the ditz, the geek, etc). However, all operate in an air of such concentrated silliness that it's a wonder their eyes don't roll into the back of their heads and they all just drop down dead.
Caitlin Moran, The Times, 6th February 2006Series 1 Review
I laughed out loud a few times, despite being alone in the house. This either means that I'm soft in the head or that The IT Crowd is funnier than I'd expected. (Forgive me. I saw Hyperdrive. My current expectations of new British comedy are very low.)
Jane Hoskyn, TV Scoop, 4th February 2006The IT Crowd is a new sitcom. Only last month, the sitcom was pronounced dead, which would dishearten many. It is engagingly old-fashioned. You hardly expected that. It is neither shakey nor surreal. There is a studio set and a studio audience.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 4th February 2006The IT Crowd is the new Graham (Father Ted, Black Books) Linehan sitcom, and therefore of major importance to anyone who habitually throws themselves on the sofa and sighs, "Ah, I love telly". The ludicrously talented Richard Ayoade finally gets a lead role, Chris Morris returns as a wholly satisfying parody of manhood, and the whole thing seems comfortably bedded in within 15 minutes. All in all, no reason to lose faith in humanity just yet.
Caitlin Moran, The Times, 28th January 2006