Graham Linehan loves nerds. Whether they turn up dressed in priest's clothes in his TV series "Father Ted", or as grumpy book store owners in "Black Books", specialized and lovable pigheaded fellows in all their oddity seem to be the british author's focus of attention. In his conversation with Linehan, re:publica's co-founder Johnny Haeusler will try to concentrate on "The IT Crowd" though, Graham Linehan's creation that managed to transfer the pop culture of geeks, gamers and netizens to the TV screen like no other series before.