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 31st December on BBC2 at 9pm with Series V, Episode 10
- Catch-up on Series V, Christmas Special
Streaming rank this week: 269
Press clippings Page 40
Video: What did ninjas wear?
You might think that we elves would be annoyed when we're proved wrong about something, but it's really not true - it's one of the great privilages of working on QI that we often have real experts in a subject watching the show and ready to pull us up if they feel we have made a mistake.
James Harkin, QI.com, 2nd December 2011The 2011 QI advent calendar competition
This year our elves have been busy all over the UK. On their travels, they have seen many Quite Interesting sights. As no self-respecting elf would be seen dead without a digital camera these days, they've also been preserving the best bits of their travels for posterity by taking a photo of their regulation QI Elf hat in a variety of locations.
QI.com, 1st December 2011A guide to QI. Series I, episode 12 'Illumination'
The International Cloud Symbols look very odd to the uninitiated, rather like various body-parts, as our panelists so subtly pointed out.
James Harkin, QI.com, 28th November 2011QI: Quite interesting facts about pigs
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI pigs out.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 24th November 2011A guide to QI. Series I, episode 11 'Infantile'
Fran Beauman is an extremely 'QI' writer, in fact, I believe she almost became a QI researcher, but instead decided to do her own thing, writing a number of truly excellent books, that we would recommend to anyone who likes what we do.
James Harkin, QI.com, 21st November 2011QI: Quite interesting facts about apples
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind the BBC's QI. This week: QI eats an apple.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 17th November 2011A Guide to QI. Series I, episode 10 'Inland Revenue'
The first question on this week's QI was about Karachi's attempt to persuade its citizens to pay its tax.
James Harkin, QI.com, 14th November 2011QI: Quite interesting facts about ears
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI is all ears.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 10th November 2011A guide to QI. Series I, episode 9 'Illness'
The Epworth Sleepiness Scale came in the I-series of QI under the guise of "Indices".
James Harkin, QI.com, 7th November 2011A guide to QI. Series I, episode 8 'Injustice'
The idea of a show about 'injustice' came about directly after we read about the story of George Spencer 'who didst lie with a beast'. It was such an incredible story, that we decided to build a show around it.
James Harkin, QI.com, 31st October 2011