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Help dress the set for the next season of The IT Crowd

Posted by 1337g33k on August 12, 2008

Boing Boing: “Graham Linehan just delivered the season three scripts for The IT
Crowd, the hilarious, ultra-geeky Channel 4 sitcom about sysadmins.
He’s shaved the script-delivery a little close and is looking for your
help in coming up with set-dressing ideas:

How would you
like to help in designing the look of series 3? Specifically, you’d be
helping us choose the stuff that litters the main set. I’m talking
about posters, comics, fanzines, T-shirts… anything you’ve seen in the
last few months that you think is pretty cool or captures the spirit of
the show or a particular character. By now, most of you know the kind
of things I like…weird toys, indie comics, sci-fi, geek references,
internet memes, boardgames…normally I’d delight in tracking down the
stuff myself, but as I say, it’s just not going to happen this time
round.

In the very first draft of the show I described the set as looking
like “a cross between a comics shop and the batcave”. I wanted it to
feel like a geek Shangri-La, and in each series I’ve felt we nearly got
there. Maybe this time, with you guys involved, we’ll finally nail it.

Please send your suggestions to ben.catel@talkbackthames.tv

I vote for the XKCD Map.

Be my hive brain!

One Response to “Help dress the set for the next season of The IT Crowd”

  1. Erasmus said

    Not to hawk a particular site, but http://www.thinkgeek.com has scads of geek and tech stuff. Something I noticed about their office: for two nerds there was NO STAR WARS or TREK STUFF! A good running gag would be Roy as a Star Wars geek and Moss as a Trekkie.

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