Back in October, IT Week got an odd call from a TV production company, asking for a big box of back issues. IT Week’s publisher said OK, that’ll be £5 per copy. Oddly enough we didn’t hear back. It has since become clear that they were wanted to dress the set of a new Channel 4 comedy from Graham “Father Ted” Linehan, called The IT Crowd, due to air shortly. “The high-rise towers of Renham Industries are full of go-getters, success stories, and winners... apart from in the basement,” according to Channel 4’s blurb. “While their beautiful colleagues work upstairs in fantastic surroundings, the IT department - Jen, Roy and Moss - lurk below ground, scorned by their co-workers as geeky losers.” It all sounds horribly familiar and painfully real to Sneak. Apart from the lack of IT Week, of course.

Filed under TV and computers

16 Jan 2006