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: 189
Press clippings Page 33
50 amazing facts to celebrate 10 years of QI
Now the best bits from 10 years of the show have been packed into a new book, 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off.
Steve Myall, The Mirror, 19th January 2013QI: some quite interesting facts about writing
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI enters the scriptorium.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 14th January 2013QI: some quite interesting facts about incense
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI makes sense of incense.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 9th January 2013TV review: QI Jingle Bells Christmas edition
Elephants eat Christmas trees? Beethoven had a Jingling Johnny? Sam Wollaston finds himself - yes - quite interested by the festive special of QI.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 22nd December 2012Pull a cracker for a festive QI with Phill Jupitus, Alan Davies, Danny Baker and RT's Sarah Millican. They are a ribald bunch, leading ringmaster Stephen Fry, resplendent in a luxuriant Santa outfit, to wail: "We have started our family Christmas show just as I'd hoped we would."
Everyone is on fine form and there are some good gags, including one from Fry about Freudians and a light bulb. And we learn why it is always Christmas in Millican's spare bedroom.
Alison Graham, Radio Times, 21st December 2012The derivation of advertising jingles is just one of the 'quite interesting' facts relayed by jovial host Stephen Fry, today in Father Christmas costume for the QI festive special. Other topics include Twelfth Night - not necessarily on January 6, according to Alan Davies's calculations - and jesus lizards. It's an enjoyable episode, with fun comic diversions including a rant about 'shiny children' that Phill Jupitus cannily uses to deflect from Fry's rather awkward question to Sarah Millican on the subject of kids. Millican may be a popular stand-up, but she's given little chance to shine here, mostly laughing very loudly at the chaps' banter. Danny Baker, meanwhile, gets to show off his obscure knowledge. It's entertaining, but not as much as, say, the 2010 Christmas special, where guest Daniel Radcliffe was used to better effect.
Anna Smith, Time Out, 21st December 2012Christmas 2012: the QI Christmas quiz
Time for the seasonal quiz from the brains behind QI, the popular BBC1 show featuring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies.
The Telegraph, 21st December 2012With previous Christmas editions of this quiz focusing on esoteric topics such as "Empire" and "Hocus Pocus", tonight's theme of "Jingle Bells" chimes (pun intended) with the season and sounds altogether merrier. Host Stephen Fry is joined for the ninth yuletide episode by regular panellist Alan Davies and guests Geordie comedian Sarah Millican, broadcaster Phill Jupitus and radio presenter Danny Baker.
Vicki Power, The Telegraph, 20th December 2012QI: Some quite interesting facts about cake
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: cake.
Molly Oldfield and John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 19th December 2012The future of the trivia book
What is the long-term future for the trivia book in an age when so many factoids (TM Steve Wright in the Afternoon) are freely available on the internet? The subject is one I discussed recently in a Covent Garden pub with some elves. Some QI elves. Yes, these creatures really do exist.
Mark Mason, The Spectator, 13th December 2012