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.
- Continues on Tuesday on BBC2 at 9pm with Series V, Episode 5
- Catch-up on Series V, Episode 4
Streaming rank this week: 187
Press clippings Page 28
BBC rejects claim Stephen Fry 'trivialised' child abuse
The BBC Trust has rejected a complaint that Stephen Fry "trivialised" child abuse during an episode of QI in which he recited a limerick about a chaplain's desire for a choir boy.
Daisy Wyatt, The Independent, 29th August 2013Behind the scenes at Radio Times QI photo shoot
The comedy duo lark around behind the scenes of their Radio Times photo shoot.
Ellie Walker-Arnott, Radio Times, 27th August 2013QI: some quite interesting facts about birthdays
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI's birthday party.
Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield, The Telegraph, 27th August 2013Alan Davies on playing the QI fool
"I don't remember any of it! It just goes in one ear and out the other"
Tom Loxley, Radio Times, 25th August 2013QI's trademark blend of improving silliness is in full flow, as the teams absorb (or occasionally, recall) obscure facts on the subject in hand - inventions. It's a rich seam: jerry cans, electric jock straps ("Why have they gone out of fashion?" wonders Jeremy Clarkson), ear-dryers, windscreen wipers, and so on. In the section on the Slinky spring-toy, each panelist gets a mini-staircase and their own Slinky to experiment with, though Alan Davies is almost wilfully hopeless with his, and Sandi Toksvig wants to keep the staircase to reach shelves in her kitchen.
It's all as amiable and informative as ever: Toksvig tells us that it was a woman who invented both the windscreen wiper and the rear-view mirror. Clarkson has no comment.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 25th August 2013Stephen Fry interview
"The beauty of the brain is that you can be as greedy as you like for knowledge and it doesn't show"
Tom Loxley, Radio Times, 25th August 2013Davies: Contestants on QI know the questions in advance
Alan Davies, the self-confessed "QI dunce", has let slip that the show's guests have time to prepare their responses - confirming that they get to see the questions in advance.
Matilda Battersby, The Independent, 20th August 2013QI: some quite interesting facts about the sun
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI shows some solar flair.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 20th August 2013Stephen Fry: France is better educated than Britain
And the QI presenter thinks education secretary Michael Gove could be on to something with his proposals for a new curriculum...
Ellie Walker-Arnott, Radio Times, 19th August 2013QI: some quite interesting facts about nests
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI is on the nest.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 13th August 2013