Actually, Chris O'Dowd has been doing TV all along, but there are some reasons why you may not have known that.

A lot of his TV work has been using his voice only. He narrated the animated kids' series "Puffin Rock," and voiced Dr. Cockroach in the short-lived DreamWorks cartoon "Monsters vs. Aliens" (based on the movie of the same name).

But his most high-profile recent TV work has been on the blink-and-you'll-miss-it, short-form series "State of the Union" earlier this year. You can be forgiven for not knowing about this one because not only is it on the slightly obscure Sundance TV channel, but the episodes are only 10 minutes long, and there have only been 10 of them.

Well, so far, at least. There's been no official word of a second season, but creator Nick Hornby said he would be open to the idea. Before you get too excited, though, he said that a second season would involve different characters, and so O'Dowd would be unlikely to return.

And so most of "State of the Union's" profile comes from its success. It was a hit with critics and won basically all of the Emmys for short-form series, including a best actor statue for O'Dowd.

So perhaps you're right, he is best at TV. As you point out, his best-known role is still that of irritable IT nerd Roy on the modern-classic British sitcom "The IT Crowd." But he leveraged that success to land a run of big-screen roles, most notably a supporting role in the 2011 smash-hit comedy "Bridesmaids."

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