My, my – hecklerspray would seem to have a Channel Four fascination today.

After taking a good long look at how the station apparently almost killed someone -  as well as lamenting the ‘celebrity status’ of Vaseline-faced should-be-working-at-Aldi-checkout womanchild Chantelle Houghton – we thought we’d round things off by showing you the brighter side of things.

Probably seen those adverts for new sitcom The IT Crowd, haven’t you? Probably thought to yourself: "If only I could see this before all my friends and talk to them about it in a vaguely superior tone, thus implying that I have some sort of ‘insider’ TV knowledge… boy oh boy, that would just about make my life utterly, utterly complete in every single way whatsoever."

Well, now you can.

Channel Four has put the first couple of episodes online – which means you can feast your eyes on them a whole two days before they’re aired. Sweet baby Jesus, just imagine …

Quick hecklerspray IT Crowd review: it’s alright. You know, in a Black Books sort of way. If you like that sort of thing. And Chris Morris is pretty funny.

Still – beats doing work, doesn’t it? So… plug your headphones into your computer, sit back, and if any of your colleagues ask what you’re laughing at, just tell them that you’re working on a particularly hilarious spreadsheet or something.

Note: this approach does not work while watching Naughty Teen Slumber Party Volume Seven. Just so you know.

Watch more:

The IT Crowd episodes