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IT Crowd On-line

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that-was-unimpressive dept.

prostoalex writes "IT Crowd, a comedy television show by UK's Channel 4, introduced on Slashdot earlier, has released the first episode, available on the official show site in Windows Media format." Pretty standard fare- there are nice touches like EFF stickers and an RTFM shirt scattered about. Some funny stuff, but the laugh track makes it really unwatchable for me.

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  1. Online before broadcast by NickFitz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The really interesting thing about this is that the show won't be broadcast on Channel 4 until next Friday. I believe this is the first time a UK broadcaster has made a programmes available online before broadcast.

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  2. Re:Its too much! by MosesJones · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Its by the same writer as father Ted and the producers of the office. Father Ted had 4 main characters and lasted for several series.

    Intense focus in a sit-com isn't bad, lets face it this is normal, low number of core characters and sets with occasional colour add ons.

    Fraser - 3 sets (appartement, Studio, coffee shop) - 5 main characters

    Cheers - 1 set (bar) depending on series between 4 and 6 characters

    Friends - 2 sets (appartement & coffee shop) - 6 characters

    Office - 1 set (Office) 4 main characters

    Father Ted - 1 set (the house) 4 main characters

    So Sitcom history seems to say that you almost NEED an intense small group of sets and characters.

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  3. An interview with the writer by Bob[Bob] · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here's an interview with the writer/director, Graham Linehan, published yesterday:
    http://telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2 006/01/28/btvline28.xml

  4. Re:If you want to have technobabble, get it right! by Jaseoldboss · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Who spotted the reference to Mark Russinovichs blog on the Sony rootkit?

    It's never safe to unload a driver that patches the system call table since some thread might be just about to execute the first instruction of a hooked function when the driver unloads; if that happens the thread will jump into invalid memory.