
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
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1 - Yesterday's Jam
Further details
Jen, a young woman who knows as much about computers as your average 17th-century farmer, joins socially-awkward Roy and Moss in the basement of Reynholm Industries.
Roy and Moss are annoyed by Jen's obvious lack of computer literacy, while Jen is equally gutted to be exiled to 'middle earth', a dingy basement where the I.T. department is located. However, it isn't long before Roy and Moss realise that a female presence in their team can have its benefits...
Notes
Episode double-bill to launch the new series.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 3rd February 2006
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Chris O'Dowd | Roy |
Richard Ayoade | Moss |
Katherine Parkinson | Jen |
Chris Morris | Denholm Reynholm |
John Hopkins (as John Willie Hopkins) | Postman Harry |
Nancy Lodder | Office Girl |
Laura Pyper | Laura |
Pete Deagle | Office Worker |
Graham Linehan | Writer |
Graham Linehan | Director |
Ben Gosling Fuller (as Ben Fuller) | Director |
Ash Atalla | Producer |
Derrin Schlesinger | Producer |
Paul Machliss | Editor |
Dennis De Groot | Production Designer |
Neil Hannon | Composer |
Press
The 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