IT Crowd to return for a third season!

Wonderful news: Channel Four have picked up The IT Crowd (my favorite geek TV show!) for a third season! It must be because Graham "Father Ted" Linehan, the show's creator, has just been named one of the world's greatest living geniuses by the Creators Synectics ("a global consultants firm").

The IT Crowd, sketch show Modern Toss and Peep Show will also return.

Link (Thanks, Stephen!)

(Disclosure: I was an unpaid consultant on series one of The IT Crowd, and my fiancee works at Channel Four)

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Webbie

Ah come on there Doctorow you’ve got a thing for that Linehan. Admit it.
Mechphisto

Disclosure: I was an unpaid consultant on series one of The IT Crowd, and my fiancee works at Channel Four

No wonder there’s EFF stickers all over the set. =)

My wife and I LOVE The IT Crowd! The seasons (serieses…es) are too short!
fraktal

I wasn’t wild about season one but season two is pretty good. I really loved episode one especially.
greebo

NBC have made a US version, with some of the same cast. This can’t turn out well.
http://www.nbc.com/Fall_Preview/The_IT_Crowd/
Monique

Speaking of British comedy series’, what about this horrible bit of news? “U.S. VERSION OF ‘SPACED’ PLANNED – DESPITE ITS CREATORS” - If Magazine

and straight from the horse’s mouth, Edgar Wright Discusses the issue on his blog Edgars Blog
xadrian

Sweet, another good show ruined.

Hey, when does another reality TV show start? I keep hearing about this writers strike and wondering at the same time what they’ve been working on all this time. Aping BBC apparently.
grebthar’s hammer

(Disclosure: I was an unpaid consultant on series one of The IT Crowd, and my fiancee works at Channel Four)

This isn’t really a necessary disclaimer, it just looks like you’re trying to big yourself up.
Argonautica

I know there’s much love for “IT Crowd” here, and I do enjoy it, but I gotta say that “Peep Show” is the funniest thing I’ve seen since Gervais’s “The Office.”
Johnald Chaffinch

being an unpaid consultant on series one of The IT Crowd sounds a bit crap
RandomReader

‘The IT Crowd’ would be OK if it was actually funny… Perhaps it’s a cultural thing, but speaking as a Brit it’s really not that good.