Bill sez, "Den of Geeks is reporting that 'The IT Crowd' has been green-lit for a fourth season. Details are few and far between, but it looks like Moss, Roy, and Jen will be back for another 6 episodes."
Hurrah! What wonderful news!
IT Crowd and Peep Show get new series orders
Previously:
- IT Crowd third season starts on Friday! - Boing Boing
- Episode six of awesome sysadmin sitcom The IT Crowd is ...
- New episode of The IT Crowd, awesome sysadmin sitcom - Boing Boing
- The IT Crowd -- season two, episode one - Boing Boing
- IT Crowd to return for a third season! - Boing Boing
- IT Crowd Season Two - the sexy finale - Boing Boing
- Season 2 of the IT Crowd announced - Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: Cut scenes from The IT Crowd
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I was puzzled by this story, until I noticed the Den Of Geek story was from March!
Meh. Season 3 was rather limp.
I hate it when the brits make good shows, because they torture us by only doing six episodes at a time!
What BOUNCY BOUNCY said. Also the news that this news isn't all that new gives me a number of doubts... Hope if there is a forth series it steers clear of that tabloid knee-jerk attitude to modern technology that the third series had. Or, at least, really rips the piss out of stereotypical knee-jerk reactions to people in information technology... Having said that, I could never understand why IT employees had to correspond to a Gothic-hardmetal dress-code...
Season 3 is def not the best season but funny nonetheless. Looking forward to season 4.
"I hate it when the brits make good shows, because they torture us by only doing six episodes at a time!"
I know! They're so freaking lazy! And sometimes they can't even get actors to commit to even those few episodes.
please cover your ears....
WHAT DO YOU MEAN GREEN LIT FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!!!!!!!
I saw that headline and thought, FINALLY, the season premiere. Greenlit? That should have been quite clear well before the last season ended (OK, maybe not quite). Nonetheless, why did we have to wait so long just to hear it was coming back?
why DO the brits only do 6 at a time? i think they used to do 26 or whatever the normal amount is, then they started doing mini-series length seasons. any brits know why?
YAY for more Peep Show too!
@#8: Anon
They only do 6 shows per season because the brits don't have a huge capitalist infrastructure to support funding dozens of episodes per season... Their TV system is a strange socialized affair where they expect people to pay "license fees" for their television to support public broadcasting, which pays for shows to be created.. As I understand it few people actually pay for their license and the quality (or amount) of their programming seems to suffer.
Think of it like every station on the air was PBS, except instead of begging for donations every 20 minutes they relied on the honour system. Yeah.
Well the BBC could make a few bucks by releasing season 2 of Peep Show in the US. Season 1 was great, and it is the only season on DVD in the US.
(I know, I could just pirate the rest, but that doesn't excuse their lack of releasing DVDs).
Woo hoo, more Peep Show.
That's what I'm carrying away from this one. =D
I was doing a happy dance until I saw comment #1 :(
Any more recent news?
UK series only come six at a time because they are typically written by one single person, not a team of writers.
I just told my wife that The IT Crowd was coming back and her 16 year old American cousin goes "Yay, I love The IT Crowd" Apparently kids at her High School pass around AVI's of the show. It was WAY more popular in the US than I ever imagined.
Go Graham!
Cheers Nigel
They also usually only have one or two writers per show, as opposed to the huge teams of writers most American TV shows have.
I read that season 4 will be back in January 2010 and there will be a Christmas special for 2009. Someone told me this in Digg a few weeks ago. I don't know how accurate it is. :( --Ant
@10.
I'm not sure how you could be more wrong. The vast majority of people in the UK do pay their TV licence, which is purely used for the BBC (with the exception of the world service and BBC Arabic TV. The only other station to get funding from the licence fee is s4c, the Welsh language part of Channel 4.
The UK is not alone in the use of a Licence fee for Television broadcasts, much of Europe does too, alongside commercial broadcasters.
The reason the quality of the BBC programming has suffered in my opinion is due to the pressure from the commercial broadcasters- The Murdock scum I'm looking at you here- with constant attacks on the BBC and with the Tories looking like they will win the next election this will only continue at an accelerated rate. The BBC can produce fantastic programming, and it's news quality is amongst some of the best there is.
Britsh series have always generally been the six episodes, as described by Bowlie above. Your point about the Licence fee is mute anyway as none of the licence fee is used by Channel 4 and has not been spent on the production of the IT crowd.
Is the system socialist? Not really. Is the BBC worth £150/yr? Hell yes.
The BBC won't make any money from The IT Crowd/Peep Show because they are produced by Channel 4!
To those a little confused about the UK broadcasting system, I suggest reading or listening to Stephen Fry's Blessay on the subject. It is fantastic.
http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/06/18/the-bbc-and-the-future-of-broadcasting/
They turned it off and on again.
Linehan's made a few references on his Twitter feed to plotting/writing the new episodes over the last couple weeks. I'll watch whatever comes out when they're ready. Even a less-than-stellar ep. has its great moments.
I can't wait until they make an American version with Seth Rogen and Justin Long, or whoever.
Just kidding, but you know it's going to happen.
@#23:
NBC already did, with Richard reprising his role as Moss.
Made one pilot episode. NOT picked up for a series.
What happened to that one American pilot episode? Did it ever get shown to the public? Can we see it?
FYI. http://www.tv.com/the-it-crowd-uk/show/54188/series-4/topic/74500-1214126/msgs.html ...
Yay! Here's hoping they can get Noel Fielding to make a couple of appearances as Richmond for series 4.
Oh, and people? It's a MOOT point, not a MUTE point.
Talking of Graham Linehan, he was in Charlie Brookers Gameswipe prog earlier this week; made some great points about the standard of writing/plotting in games.
Actually, anyone with the slighest interest in video games should watch it (iplayer in the uk...), undoubtedly the smartest/funniest prog about gaming ever.
Anon @#4, sounds like you have never watched the show. It was never really about technology, it was always more of a "buddy" show like "Seinfeld".
And none of the IT staff dress in "a Gothic-hardmetal dress-code". Only one ancillary character, Richmond (ok, a goth), who does not work in IT, but had his office moved into the server room dresses Goth. The character has only appeared in like, four episodes.
I'm so happy to hear that another season is on the way. I love the characters and am greatful to Graham for turning me on to Guided By Voices.
I'm an American who has seen every episode of the IT Crowd... Quite a number of times, each... I just find British humor funny (accent and all), and (in particular) enjoy this one-and-only Comedy show that has Technology as something of a "theme" (I work in IT, so there's the draw)... Excited to hear that Season 4 may be coming... Don't shoot me, but I thought Denim (sp?) was a lot funnier than Douglas as "Mr. Big" at Renholm Industries... I wish they'd find a way to raise him from the dead and put his eccentric arse back in the CEO's office...
Perhaps "Denholm" could return as a long lost Evil Twin?
Er... eviler twin?
I love this show.
Awesome.
I'm a bit surprised by the anti season 3 sentiments. I thought every season of the IT Crowd so far had been stronger then the previous.
The show is great, my only complaint is some weird underlying misogyny stuff that pops up occasionally.
Yeah the show isn't perfect I guess, but it's funny to me since I work in IT (although I'm in management so... yeah). I've liked all the episodes I've seen although I only own seasons 1 and 2. I'm happy to hear there's another season. The characters are great in this although you can add me to the greatly misses Denholm group. Richard Ayoade is freaking hilarious.
Both shows outclass all the "According to Dad's Rules" sitcom' here, But out of the two, Peep Show's the real thrill.
I want Richmond!
Yeah, why DO they keep turning it off and back on again?
It's brilliant!!!
you can see the office where I work in the background shots for the IT crowd - e.g. when Moss is pointing out the window to disract everyone from roy under the desk...
and in my last job, I worked in an office in Slough, which is visible in the opening shots of 'The Office'.
Is there a pattern developing here ? Is the universe trying to tell me something ?
Very happy it's coming back.
@28 Quite enjoyed the Gameswipe program! And Charlie on 'Would I Lie To You?'.
The reason why only a few episodes are made is due to QUALITY over QUANTITY. Also, perhaps there simply wasn't enough material to cover that many episodes. One can only churn out so much that is worth putting money into/filming.
BOWLIE:
There is a huge following of BBC material within the younger tech-savy population of American high school and colleges. In college, my particular group of friends and I probably watched more BBC material than US (No cable but decent broadband).
It's really a shame that there is not a pay/ad-supported iPlayer available to people in the States, BBC America is pretty horrible (with a few notable exceptions) and BBC DVDs are incredibly overpriced.
They are popular in the Brasil too.
I hope his back soon!!!!!!!!
sorry my english... My language is portuguese
ALSO ARGENTINA !!!!
Season 3 was classic! It had Jen's Internet speech. BluffBall, and the Facebook parody! Season 3 was awesome.