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The IT Crowd

★ 8.5 177K votes 2006–2013 5 seasons · 25 episodes Ended Channel 4
WorkplaceThe job and its social ecosystem as the stage.This show: 9/10SitcomClassic comedy rhythm, multi-camera or single.This show: 9/10British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 9/10AbsurdistSurreal, logic-bending comedy.This show: 8/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 8/10Easy watchingLow-demand television where half your attention is enough.This show: 8/10Comfort rewatchThe kind of show people return to endlessly.This show: 7/10Dry humorDeadpan, understated wit.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Chris O'DowdRichard AyoadeKatherine ParkinsonMatt BerryChristopher MorrisNoel Fielding
Starring
Chris O'DowdRichard AyoadeKatherine ParkinsonMatt BerryChristopher MorrisNoel Fielding
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Votes per Episode
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About

"Nerd-culture farce that quietly rewrote sitcom quotability"

Two socially awkward IT technicians and their tech-illiterate new boss are exiled to a grim basement office, where deadpan absurdity and outright surrealism take over. It's a old-school multi-camera sitcom with a laugh track, but the jokes are dense, quotable, and often gloriously silly rather than observational. Episodes run short and tight, building to big farcical set pieces. The tone stays goofy and affectionate even when storylines go completely off the rails. It's less about realism and more about rapid-fire gags, running bits, and a trio of characters who clearly enjoy being ridiculous together.

Watch it for

the endlessly quotable dialogue and three leads who commit fully to the absurdity.

Maybe skip if

you find laugh-track multi-camera sitcoms or broad farce inherently grating.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

Season 12006
7.918K62h 28m
In season one, Roy and Moss toil in the squalid basement of a huge company, fielding IT help-desk calls. Roy has a lousy attitude coupled with an eye for the ladies, while Moss is dressed by his mother and has an aerosol can of water clipped to his belt with which to spray his ear when it gets hot. Into their life of users, pizza, science fiction and firewalls comes middle manager Jen, a punky can-do career gal who doesn't know one end of laptop from the other.
Season 22007
8.621K62h 20m
In the second series, team cohesion in IT at Reynholm Industries is running at capacity, largely thanks to work outings, dinner parties and the manipulation of cannibals in order to watch pirate DVDs.
Season 32008
8.316K62h 17m
For Moss, Roy and Jen, social networks and problems with naked calendars are welcome distractions from important duties, like protecting a certain little black box that's also known as 'the internet'.
Season 42010
8.014K62h 24m
As Moss wins big on a quiz show and Roy frets about his reputation, Jen seeks a new job. Douglas' behavior continues to put the company in jeopardy.
Season 5
8.43K148m

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Chris O'Dowd Roy Trenneman
Richard Ayoade Maurice Moss
Katherine Parkinson Jen Barber
Matt Berry Douglas Reynholm
Christopher Morris Denholm Reynholm
Noel Fielding Richmond, Richmond Avenal
Graham Linehan Beth Gaga Shaggy, Blind Irish Sorcerer, Director
Tom Binns Nolan
Lewis Macleod Charity Voice, Friendface, Narrator
Belinda Stewart-Wilson Barbara, Victoria

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