The ten best TV geeks

In Richard Ayoade’s Moss, ‘The IT Crowd’ gave us a geek for our times: hyper-intelligent, super-awkward and only vaguely aware of the opposite sex. But TV has spent decades showcasing such epic losers – the kind of characters whose total spoddishness can often overshadow their cooler co-stars. And they aren’t just middle-aged white males, either – genuine geekdom is a broad church, as these ten trailblazers have shown.

Oh, and by the way – if you’re one of those people who thinks this lot are nerds rather than geeks, take a long hard look at yourself…