Writer, Director and comedy God, Graham Linehan tells us about the differences between Season One & Two, technology, and plans for Season Three...

First off, is the show called 'The I.T. Crowd' or 'The IT Crowd'?
Well, I always say I like both. Basically everybody hates me from a marketing point of a view because I don't care what it's called. The thing is the title works both ways; it's kind of a play on them not being the 'in' crowd, and the word or phrase is 'IT'. I don't really mind what people call it.

Didn't your wife come up with the name?
She did. The reason I'm nostalgic for the name and have a fondness for it is when Helen suggested it we were on holiday and I was toying around with ideas, trying to figure out what my next thing was going to be about. When she said it should be called 'The IT Crowd', that was the moment when I realised I had a show. Sometimes when a title is really good, the whole package comes wrapped up with it and you know immediately what it's going to be like.

What was the difference between the two seasons?
Well it had to be done a lot faster because Chris and Katherine had other commitments, but it was strangely easier because I knew the type of storylines I wanted to avoid and what I wanted to do. We knew we wanted to make the characters less adversarial because they spent too much time shouting across the room in Season One. This time the storylines explore the idea of them as a gang of friends, a feeling of people hanging out, which is something I always wanted to do because Seinfeld is such a big influence on me.

It also became slightly easier because you know who you're writing for. People know the characters now, whereas the very first episode of season one got a lot of stick because of all the setting up which needed to be done. People are impatient but you have to do it. I'm very happy with a lot of Season One but there was always one thing I wasn't happy with in each episode, but I really think this Season is a real step forward, and I think it's going to hit!