'The IT Crowd' UK Sit-com

Nigsy writes "The Register reports that "A new sitcom - set among IT workers in the dingy basement of a glamorous company - is due to arrive on the UK's Channel 4 next month. The IT Crowd, written by Graham Linehan (the scribe behind Father Ted, Black Books), will debut on the internet on 27 January, a week before its terrestrial broadcast on Friday, 3 February at 9.30pm."" Here's hoping that they have a consultant on the show to make it technically accurate.

Comments

BOFH

[alanw]

Here's hoping that they have a consultant on the show to make it technically accurate.

Who else but Simon Travaglia

Re:BOFH

[Minwee]

Either that or one of the guys is Swedish.

Simon won't like this. Not one bit.

[TripMaster Monkey]

The high-rise towers of Renham Industries are full of go-getters, success stories, and winners... apart from in the basement. While their beautiful colleagues work upstairs in fantastic surroundings, the I.T. department - Jen, Roy and Moss - lurk below ground, scorned by their co-workers as geeky losers.

"Geeky losers"? Oh dear...

<clickety clickety>

Let's just see how geeky you think the IT department is after I format your drive, toss the backup, and submit your 'candid holiday snaps' to a few dozen gay singles websites, along with your name, address, work number, and personal cell number, shall we?

Oh, hold on...

<clickety clickety>

Now the Boss' home page has been set to one of the raunchier gay singles websites, proudly displaying your picture as 'twink of the week', and stating that your interests include latex, flash photography, and small mammals. That ought to spice up the water-cooler gossip.

Don't Worry

[faqmaster]

If past performance is any indication, it should be spot on. Father Ted was the most accurate depiction to date of the priest's life.

IT via Father Ted

[gowen]

Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls... sorry, no girls allowed.

Stay tuned for next weeks episode

[dr_dank]

It's a recipe for wackyness when a linux vs. bsd flamewar breaks out and the flamboyantly gay sidekick has a date with two men on the same night at the same time! Bronson Pinchot guest stars.

Re:Simon won't like this. Not one bit.

[SydBarrett]

Let's just see how geeky you think the IT department is after I format your drive, toss the backup, and submit your 'candid holiday snaps' to a few dozen gay singles websites, along with your name, address, work number, and personal cell number, shall we?

I think you got "geeky" confused with "fired".

Suggestion

[Billosaur]

Show nothing but the tops of the character's heads as they sit in their cubicles. That would be technically accurate.

Re:Or not...

[Spad]

Just out of interest, did you complain that Father Ted didn't accurately reflect the teachings of the Catholic Church?

You mean it didn't?!

"technically accurate"

[Dystopian Rebel]

Here's hoping that they have a consultant on the show to make it technically accurate.

If technically accurate, the characters will be males reading Slashdot, downloading pr0n, virus-scanning Windows boxes, eating pizza, and quarrelling intensely about Perl and Python.

I predict low ratings.

From the writer of Father Ted

[ettlz]

grep! as! link! perl!

To quote Ted...

[Gleng]

Just out of interest, did you complain that Father Ted didn't accurately reflect the teachings of the Catholic Church?

"That's the great thing about Catholicism. It's so vague and nobody really knows what it's all about."