Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

I knew I wasn't going to enjoy the IT crowd that much, and I was right. The endless promoverts from C4 left little to be discovered in the episodes. Chris Morris was amusing as the Big Boss, although he did constantly remind me of the singer from Electric 6. But the rest of it was disappoingtingly average, dropping on occasion to outright poor.

One good aspect however, was seeing Richard Ayoade (as Maurice Moss) again. You may have recognised him from Nathan Barley. The reason I enjoyed seeing him was because he always reminds me of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, a superb Channel 4 comedy, cruelly tossed aside after one series due to low viewing figures. Well, here's a tip if you want higher viewing figures: don't show it at 11:45 on a thursday evening.



Despite a distinct lack of repeats, let alone a DVD release, there is thankfully Garth Marenghi's website which documents Garth's career as a horror writer. I find it very humerous, especially the spoof blurbs to his many books, such as this one for "Slicer". It is an excellent pisstake of a genre that badly needs it and I sit in hope that one day that C4 will see fit to at least give the TV show another airing.


PS. On further looking, I see there is a "Save Darkplace" website, which tells you everything about the show, and the possibility of a DVD release. Hoorah!