The IT Crowd makes me ROTFL

The 6-episode BBC Comedy The IT Crowd- currently making the rounds on Bittorrent- is the funniest TV comedy I've seen since Spaced (the most excellent slacker comedy by the fine people who made Shaun of the Dead). I avidly watched the show til it's all-too-soon conclusion after reading Cory Doctorow's rave about it on BoingBoing. The show is about 2 hapless, socially dysfunctional computer geeks who work in the IT department of an unnamed corporation (and of course, they're housed in the building's basement) and their new female supervisor, who knows absolutely nothing about PCs. The genius of the show is in its razor-sharp writing, over-the-top characters and increasingly surreal plotlines. The 2nd episode, where this motley group has to hide an out-of-control fire from their very, very weird boss, is a highlight. The season ends on somewhat of a cliffhanger, so it's gratifying to know that there's a second season on it's way.

On another note, it's interesting how the Internet is increasingly making TV networks irrelevant. I haven't watched anything but the news on TV for the longest time now. If I need to watch a TV show, I just get off the Internet- more often than not, months before the show comes to Singapore.