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The IT Crowd
SERIES: IFC, Tuesday 10:00p (30 minutes)


8.2

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Starring Richard Ayoade, Chris O'Dowd, and Katherine Parkinson

The imported British comedy about a group of help-desk workers is to be remade for NBC.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
CREATED BY:	Ash Atalla
FIRST AIR DATE:	September 30, 2008

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Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

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.

LA Weekly Robert Abele

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.

Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd

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.

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray

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.

Entertainment Weekly Aubry D'Arminio

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).

Variety Brian Lowry

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.

The New York Times Ginia Bellafante

The IT Crowd packages feeble stereotypes and then hits the send button.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

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.

The average user rating for this tv show is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Karl J. gave it a10:
I think the pittsburgh and new york times critics, miss the point! clearly they've never had to ring an IT help desk or are familiar with what really goes on. This is classic, more British comedy genius! More of it please!!!!!

D P gave it a10:
Great show for getting out a few laughs.

Adam A gave it an8:
Good sitcom. I'm glad it's finally finding it's way to the US. Not perfect humor, but pretty enjoyable nonetheless.

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The IT Crowd SERIES: IFC, Tuesday 10:00p (30 minutes)

The IT Crowd
SERIES: IFC, Tuesday 10:00p (30 minutes)