The IT Crowd: Series 3 coming to Channel 4

The IT Crowd, written and directed by Graham Linehan (Father Ted, Black Books) and produced by Ash Atalla (The Office, Man Stroke Woman) will return to Channel 4 for a third series in November.

Read our interview with Katherine Parkinson who plays Jen.

The IT Crowd follows the fresh adventures of Roy (Chris O’Dowd – Festival), Moss (Richard Ayoade – Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, Nathan Barley) and Jen (Katherine Parkinson – Doc Martin), who continue, against the odds, to be employed by Reynholm Industries as IT consultants. Their sometimes fragile friendship is reinforced when they become the victims of sexual harassment, create a fundraising erotic calendar, confront the builders from hell, inadvertently assist with a robbery and join a social networking site. Despite attempts to leave the basement of the IT dept, Jen is quickly humiliated into returning to Roy and Moss, while they in turn are lost without her.

Meanwhile their boss Douglas (Matt Berry – Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace), suffers a string of self-inflicted calamities: he shoots himself in the leg, dons a pair of electro shock therapy pants to control sexual desire and, even though he is the MD, he reduces Reynholm Industries to near bankruptcy.