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  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • Channel 4
  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • Channel 4
The IT Crowd (UK)

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 and horr...

  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • Channel 4
  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • Channel 4
The IT Crowd (UK)
5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 3, 2006
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
67
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 265 User Ratings
8.6
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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 and horr...

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
67
75% Positive
6 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
13% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
67
75% Positive
6 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
13% Negative
1 Review

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80
I suspect anyone who's ever called a "help" desk seeking actual help, only to be asked, "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" won't need a translator to laugh themselves silly over The IT Crowd.
By Ellen Gray FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
75
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).
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70
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.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
40
The IT Crowd packages feeble stereotypes and then hits the send button.
By Ginia Bellafante FULL REVIEW
30
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.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 265 User Ratings
8.6
92% Positive
243 Ratings
6% Mixed
16 Ratings
2% Negative
6 Ratings

User Reviews

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User Score
Universal Acclaim Based on 265 User Ratings
8.6
92% Positive
243 Ratings
6% Mixed
16 Ratings
2% Negative
6 Ratings

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Production Company:
  • Talkback Thames
  • Channel 4 Television Corporation
Initial Release Date: Feb 3, 2006
Number of seasons: 5 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

BAFTA Awards
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
British Comedy Awards
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Monte-Carlo TV Festival
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations

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