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QI. Image shows from L to R: Alan Davies, Sandi Toksvig. Copyright: TalkbackThames
QI

QI

  • TV panel show
  • BBC Two / BBC One / BBC Four
  • 2003 - 2025
  • 324 episodes (22 series)

Panel game that contains lots of difficult questions and a large amount of quite interesting facts. Stars Sandi Toksvig, Stephen Fry and Alan Davies.

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The nation's favourite national treasure, Stephen Fry, has finally called time on QI (BBC Two).

Where would we have been without Fry's QI? The quirky quiz has been correcting our misconceptions for 13 years and over 180 episodes. How else would we have known that Darwin ate owls, the moon smells of gunpowder, Cinderella's slippers were made of squirrel fur and that Henry VIII had two wives (or four if you're Catholic)?

QI has been a pedant's paradise and has probably been the cause of more pub fights on 'quiz night' than any of the beer served. It will continue with Sandi Toksvig in the chair, but only time will tell whether the chemistry of Fry and Alan Davies will be replicated. My guess is Davies will give it a go to the end of the series and then bow out himself. Only time - and ratings - will tell.

James Waller-Davies, Horncastle News, 26th February 2016

Review: The QI Elves at the Leicester Comedy Festival

The QI Elves' live recording of hit podcast, No Such Thing as a Fish, hurled a shedload of facts in our direction in an entertaining hybrid of impish humour, conversational charm and enough snippets of trivia to wow even the most experienced pub quizzer, writes Jasmine Henderson-Pennington.

Jasmine Henderson-Pennington, Leicester Mercury, 22nd February 2016

Review - QI: Series M, Episode 16 - Misconceptions

Bye-Bye Stephen...

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 21st February 2016

Stephen Fry's Farewell - seven things we learned

After 13 years, 184 episodes and enough clever clogs asides to fill a decent-sized library wing, television's favourite erudite uncle has surrendered the lectern. It was Stephen Fry's farewell show as QI quizmaster.

Ed Power, The Telegraph, 20th February 2016

After rattling through half an alphabet's worth of "quite interesting" trivia, and finding endlessly inventive ways of calling Alan Davies an idiot, Stephen Fry finally steps down from his role of QI's avuncular headmaster tonight. But first there's a final light-hearted lecture to get through, on the subject of misconceptions. The panel of Chris Addison, Sue Perkins and Sara Cox isn't quite a classic by QI standards - where's Bill Bailey?! - but one final opportunity for some Fry-and-Davies back-and-forth should make up for that.

Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 19th February 2016

Stephen Fry's quite interesting moments

Stephen Fry has adopted many personas in his 13 years as ringmaster of Britain's most learned panel show QI. There's the stern schoolmaster. The raffish don. The avuncular uncle. The refined eccentric. And now, the departing national treasure. As these highlights from his years on the show indicate, new host Sandi Toksvig has big shoes to fill.

Phil Harrison, The Telegraph, 19th February 2016

Stephen Fry's last QI marks the end of an era

Stephen Fry has embodied the BBC2 panel show for 13 years, but this is the right time to let Sandi Toksvig take charge.

Huw Fullerton, Radio Times, 19th February 2016

Stephen Fry, from A to Z

As Stephen Fry bids farewell to QI, Mark Lawson uncovers 26 quite interesting facts about the beloved actor and presenter.

Mark Lawson, Radio Times, 19th February 2016

QI: series M, episode 15 - Mix and Match

Overall it was a fun episode. It certainly seems as if it will be good once the full-length episode is broadcast.

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 14th February 2016

The QI Elves: ask me anything

We are Dan Schreiber (yeti expert), James Harkin (pun expert), Andrew Hunter Murray (parachuting dogs expert) and Anna Ptaszynski (not on Twitter expert). Together we make the UK podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, a weekly show full of facts, more facts, some dubious facts from Dan, and stupid jokes. Ask Us Anything.

Reddit, 11th February 2016

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