Genre

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Genre

What do you notice about the changes in sitcom genre over time? Click on the sitcom buttons to see how they have developed.

Friends	More Contemporary Sitcoms	The IT Crowd
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What you can see here is that The IT Crowd, despite being made at the same time as many contemporary sitcoms borrowed the key generic conventions from some of the more classic programmes.

Creator Graham Linehan grew up watching and consuming classic comedy so has maintained some of these tropes when developing his programme.