Category: Humor

Sorry, No New “IT Crowd” episodes


Sorry to hear this, but the Register is reporting that there will be no new IT Crowd episodes.

A fifth series of the Bafta-winning IT Crowd had been commissioned, but Linehan – who wrote all 24 episodes of the sitcom – has run out of enthusiasm for Roy, Moss and Jen.

He told readers of online forum Reddit that “the chief reason was the fact that I just wasn’t looking forward to it the way I used to.

“I felt that the last series was a nice strong point to go out on, and anything further might just be running on the spot. You don’t do your best work when you’re running on the spot.”

Linehan, who also co-wrote Father Ted, added that it felt “like a natural time to wind things down”.

What To Watch: Dead Like Me

What have I been watching on broadcast TV lately? Too many reality shows. In fact, now many reality COOKING shows. Hell’s Kitchen, Kitchen Nighmares (the British one), Top Chef, Top Chef – Just Desserts, Master Chef… the list goes on. I’m sure someone has plans for “Hell’s Top Kitchen Chef Nightmare Desserts.”

So, as a nice break from all that, I decided to watch a show I could download from Netflix. My choice? “Dead Like Me”. I’d started it before, but for some reason let it drop off my radar for a while. I picked it up again, and I’m glad I did.

SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD

The main character of the show is Georgia Lass (aka “George”), who dies in the first episode after being hit by the flaming toilet seat re-entering the atmosphere from a Soviet space station. Now, normally when people die in this show’s “universe”, a person comes up to them and touches them. That person is a Grim Reaper, and is actually “reaping” their soul so that the death they’re about to have won’t be painful. After death, the Grim Reaper helps the dead person “move on” to the next phase of their existence.

But, that doesn’t happen to everyone. In George’s case, she’s told that she has to now take the role of a Grim Reaper, and joins a group of Grim Reapers to preform this task. They meet at “Der Waffle Haus” every day to get their assignments from Rube, the leader of the group.

This might sound like a really strange premise for a show, and it is, but it’s a lot of fun. It only lasted two seasons, but it’s well worth watching.

One additional things: They came out with a follow-on movie in 2009 called Dead Like Me: Life After Death. It was disappointing, and didn’t have the same flair of the rest of the show. Nearly every regular character made it into the movie, but a couple didn’t. After seeing the movie, I’d say that they did it because of the script….but who knows? I think it’s safe if you skip the movie, and just enjoy the two seasons.

Dead Like Me: The Complete Collection