No Such Thing As The News
- TV comedy
- BBC Two
- 2016
- 13 episodes (2 series)
A topical comedy series hosted by the stars of QI's No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. Stars Dan Schreiber, Anna Ptaszynski, Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin, Jane Hill and Matthew Amroliwala
Press clippings
Science communication award for No Such Thing As A Fish
The No Such Thing As A Fish podcast team is to receive the The Heinz Oberhummer Award for Science Communication.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th April 2019Stephen Fry reunites with the QI team
For an episode of the researchers' No Such Thing As A Fish podcast.
Chortle, 15th November 2018No Such Thing As A Fish team return with 2018 book
The team behind podcast No Such Thing As A Fish and TV news satire No Such Thing As The News are to publish a second compendium of bizarre facts about the twelve months just gone, The Book Of The Year 2018.
British Comedy Guide, 5th April 2018No Such Thing as a Fish film behind-the-scenes doc
No Such Thing As A Fish: Behind the Gills is an access-all-areas look at life on tour with the multi-award-winning hit podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. It will be released on January 29.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 27th January 2018Interview: QI elf Andrew Hunter Murray
Did you know that boxer crabs pick up sea anemones and use them as boxing gloves?
Kirsten Rawlins, The Express and Star, 29th November 2017How one QI Elf finds his facts for the show
Those fascinating bits of trivia come courtesy of a dedicated team - affectionately referred to as the 'QI Elves' - who research, write and produce for the panel show in all its guises, from TV and radio to books and games. Andrew Hunter Murray is one such Elf, and host of the show's popular No Such Thing As A Fish podcast.
Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 9th November 20179 fascinating facts about the QI Elves
The weird and wonderful things you need to know about the QI researchers and hosts of No Such Thing as a Fish.
Thomas Ling, Radio Times, 3rd November 2017Interview: The QI Elves talk their new book
Behind the scenes, the show's researchers - known as "QI elves" - scour newspapers, museums and dark corners of the internet for trivia. But in the early years they had a problem: there were simply too many facts.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 2nd November 2017Interview: Andrew Hunter Murray loves a strange fact
The QI quiz show researchers had such fun discovering and chatting together about the curious and often bizarre things they where finding out in researching the show that they created a podcast all about it and it's called No Such Thing As A Fish.
One of the co hosts of the acclaimed podcast in Andrew Hunter Murray joined Lindy for a chat ahead of their upcoming tour of Australia, and shared some of his favourite facts and how the podcast got it's name.
ABC News (Australia), 1st November 2017Quirky trivia from 2017 by the team behind TV quiz show
Researchers for BBC2 show QI constantly search for facts for their annual compilation of weird trivia. Findings, such as that bees can recognise human faces, are also broadcast on the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish (named after a scientist's contention that not all the creatures we call fish descend from the same common ancestor). Here's an A to Z selection from their 2017 collection . . .
Daily Mail, 28th October 2017