The IT Crowd (UK)

Name: The IT Crowd (UK)
Genre: Comedy
Released: February 3, 2006
Rating: 67
Cast: Matt Berry (II), Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Chris O'Dowd

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Channel 4 | Release Date: February 3, 2006

Starring: Matt Berry (II), Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Chris O'Dowd

Summary: At the UK company Reynholm Industries, their corporate high-rise towers are full of beautiful happy people with one success story after another. Well, except for the employees that work in the basement - the IT department. While their colleagues work in fantastic surroundings, Jen, Roy and Moss must work below ground in the dark andAt the UK company Reynholm Industries, their corporate high-rise towers are full of beautiful happy people with one success story after another. Well, except for the employees that work in the basement - the IT department. While their colleagues work in fantastic surroundings, Jen, Roy and Moss must work below ground in the dark and horrible basement, struggling to make it into normal society.

Jen (Katherine Parkinson) is a career person who is looking to climb the corporate ladder. Unfortunately, due to fibbing on her CV (resumé), she finds herself the manager of the IT Department. The problem is, she knows nothing about technology! Roy (Chris O'Dowd) and Moss (Richard Ayoade) make up the IT Department and share a love of technology, science fiction and not having to work if at all possible. What they don't like is the idea of being supervised by someone who knows nothing about computers.

Seeing that Roy and Moss may know a lot about computers, but very little about working with people, Jen takes on the role of "Relationship Manager" to help the guys and help herself in the process.

The IT Crowd is a playful and somewhat surreal look at what it's really like to be the underof every company - the IT Department.

In 2008, The IT Crowd won the Rose D'Or for Best Comedy.… Expand

Genre(s): Comedy

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S4:E7. The Internet Is Coming
Air Date: September 27, 2013
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S4:E6. Reynholm vs Reynholm
Air Date: July 30, 2010
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S4:E5. Bad Boys
Air Date: July 23, 2010

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Robert Lloyd

Season 1 Review: That the funniest straight-ahead sitcom of the American fall television season is a 2-year-old British import airing on a basic-cable network is because of a few things: a dearth of new American sitcoms, the availability of road-tested foreign product, and the ongoing expansion of the vast tracts of basic cable into the kind of programming that has traditionally defined broadcast television. Read full review

Robert Abele

Season 1 Review: It’s old-school silly, filmed--defiantly, in these laugh-track-less days--in front of a studio audience, rich with sublimely broad performances, appreciative of the well-timed one-liner and the pratfall, in love with jokes of camera placement and confident in the healing power of a running gag. Read full review

Barry Garron

Season 1 Review: There is a universality to "IT" that makes at least some of it instantly relatable. Ayoade, O'Dowd and Parkinson are terrific as employees who want only to keep their jobs but not let them interfere with their personal lives. Read full review

Aubry D'Arminio

Season 1 Review: This funny U.K. import's premiere introduces snobbish techie Moss (Richard Ayoade), his luckless-in-love buddy Roy (Chris O'Dowd), and their pretty but computer-illiterate new boss Jen (Katherine Parkinson). Read full review

Brian Lowry

Season 1 Review: So far, so good, but while writer-director Graham Linehan (working with "The Office" producer Ash Atalla) has created a vivid trio of oddball characters, his ingenuity doesn't extend to finding consistently amusing situations in which to put them. Read full review

Ginia Bellafante

Season 1 Review: The IT Crowd packages feeble stereotypes and then hits the send button. Read full review

Rob Owen

Season 1 Review: This story of two computer I.T. guys and their computer illiterate boss is overly obvious and plays on stereotypes in an over-the-top way that may have been au courant in the '80s but feels woefully dated today. Read full review

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SlayerKarma

May 25, 2023

The funniest TV series I've seen, with the worst Spanish translation ever. Deserves of cult classic status.

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tarekali

Feb 11, 2021

Hilarious office comedy in the same league as … The Office. Definitely not PG humour but very hard hitting sarcastic take on the modern workplace, especially the travails of the under-appreciated IT staff, to which I can most certainly relate. I wish this series went past 5 short seasons, itHilarious office comedy in the same league as … The Office. Definitely not PG humour but very hard hitting sarcastic take on the modern workplace, especially the travails of the under-appreciated IT staff, to which I can most certainly relate. I wish this series went past 5 short seasons, it was so good. Every episode had a strong pulse on a period of remarkable change in society’s exposure to and adoption of technology, especially the Internet. Very much attuned to pop culture too, and of course the expected witty British humour we all love. So nice to see the series end on a twisted positive note, as fortune favored the basement dwellers to rise to the top.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

67

Series Overview
Season 4

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- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: June 25, 2010
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  S4:E7. The Internet Is Coming
  Air Date: September 27, 2013
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  S4:E6. Reynholm vs Reynholm
  Air Date: July 30, 2010
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  S4:E5. Bad Boys
  Air Date: July 23, 2010
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  S4:E4. Italian for Beginners
  Air Date: July 16, 2010
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  S4:E3. Something Happened
  Air Date: July 9, 2010
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  S4:E2. The Final Countdown
  Air Date: July 2, 2010
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  S4:E1. Jen The Fredo
  Air Date: June 25, 2010
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: November 21, 2008
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: August 24, 2007
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 3, 2006