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"The IT Crowd&amp;#039;s creator Graham Linehan has confirmed that the show will not be returning for a fifth series. Speaking in an online chat at Reddit, Linehan explained that he wants the comedy to go out on a high. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll say right off the bat... the bad news is no IT Crowd series five,&amp;quot; he said. Responding to questions from fans, Linehan admitted that he would &amp;quot;never say never&amp;quot; to another series but he is &amp;quot;just not feeling it&amp;quot; at the moment. &amp;quot;[The] chief reason was the fact that I just wasn&amp;#039;t looking forward to it the way I used to,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I felt that the last series was a nice strong point to go out on, and anything further might just be running on the spot. You don&amp;#039;t do your best work when you&amp;#039;re running on the spot.&amp;quot; Linehan continued: &amp;quot;It feels like a natural time to wind things down. Apart from anything else, we&amp;#039;re probably reaching that stage where it begins to feel odd that Roy, Jen and Moss are still stuck down in that basement. I don&amp;#039;t want to start giving everybody babies to make it feel like they&amp;#039;re moving on with their lives. My kind of comedy has always been setpiece-driven... and maybe that kind of thing has a naturally short life.&amp;quot; However, Linehan also revealed that he is planning a special, which will air on Channel 4 next year. &amp;quot;[It&amp;#039;s] a big juicy story with great storylines for all the characters (I think),&amp;quot; he said, adding that he would consider making an IT Crowd film. &amp;quot;It all depends on whether I come up with a good idea for one,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;One good enough to attract all the cast. It needs to deserve to be a film, though. So it&amp;#039;s got to be big on all sorts of different levels.  &amp;quot;But even if that doesn&amp;#039;t happen, I&amp;#039;m quite interested in the idea of the &amp;#039;IT Crowd universe&amp;#039;. Like the DC or Marvel Universes. You know, maybe catching up with Bennie Wong as Prime or Douglas&amp;#039;s Big Spaceology Wedding... these might end up just being future specials.&amp;quot; Linehan also revealed that he would support a rumoured crossover between The IT Crowd and US sitcom Community. &amp;quot;Wasn&amp;#039;t it something about Moss meeting Abed?&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t see why not. [Community] creator Dan [Harmon] is someone I would trust completely with the character.&amp;quot; The IT Crowd, which starred Katherine Parkinson, Chris O&amp;#039;Dowd and Richard Ayoade, was expected to end soon but was widely thought to be getting one last series. The comedy won a BAFTA in 2009. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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