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 45
QI: Quite interesting facts about length
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI. This week: QI goes long.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 2nd June 2011QI elves launch new digital publishing website
QI researcher John Mitchinson, has come together with two other writers to launch Unbound, a new digital publishing platform, which allows members of the public to fund and influence authors' works at the point of creation.
Emma Barnett, The Telegraph, 29th May 2011QI: Quite interesting facts about getting sick
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI pulls a sickie.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 26th May 2011QI: Quite interesting facts about ice
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI gets icy.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 19th May 2011QI to premiere on South Africa's BBC Entertainment
QI Series 1 premieres with a double bill on Friday, 27 May at 20:30 and 21:05 on BBC Entertainment (DStv channel 120).
Media Update, 16th May 2011QI: Quite interesting facts about the solar system
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI visits the planets.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 12th May 2011Ofcom has found digital channel Dave guilty of a breach of regulations after a single viewer complained about the 'F-word' appearing on a repeat of QI at 2pm.
The viewer complained the repeat of the episode 'Dogs', broadcast by Dave on 22nd February, which had originally been shown post-watershed on BBC Two and BBC Four. The programme featured host Stephen Fry and panellist Jeremy Clarkson saying the words 'fuck' and 'fucking' respectively.
Despite it being shown mid-afternoon, Dave failed to obscure the words properly, leading to the viewer to complain that such words should be been censored during that time of day.
In response UK Gold Services, the company which owns Dave, said the "bleeping of the language was not up to the usual standard", but claimed that due to the partial obscuring "the offence caused was minimal."
Ofcom did not accept this excuse and thus found the network guilty of breaching rule 1.14 of the broadcasting code which states: "The most offensive language must not be broadcast before the watershed (in the case of television)".
QI starts recording its ninth series, Series I, tomorrow. It will be the first series to premiere in the programme's original post-watershed BBC Two slot since its move to a pre-watershed BBC One position.
Ian Wolf, British Comedy Guide, 9th May 2011QI: Quite interesting facts about Spain
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI. This week: QI turns Spanish.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 5th May 2011In terms of reviewing QI, anyone who knows me will know that this is an easy job as far as I'm concerned, as QI is my favourite comedy show.
On Easter Monday a "VG" edition was shown, which consists mainly of old clips of the previous series and some new bits thrown in. Among the quite interesting things mentioned include the correct use of poisoned darts (whatever you do, do not do what Bill Bailey did and blow the dart straight upwards).
As this edition of QI was basically a clip show, there's not that much to say about it, except that this and the edition on Bank Holiday Monday will be the final ever episodes of QI to premier on BBC One before the series moves back to its old home on BBC Two.
For many fans, the show's move from BBC Two to the more mainstream BBC One was a mistake, with some believing that the show would be dumbed-down. Although the people behind the series claimed that the first batch of episodes were edited before the decision to move, critics claimed that show had lost its edge.
I think the move back is the best thing to do, provided they still keep broadcasting the extended "XL" editions as well. Still, I will be wishing QI goodbye from BBC One this week.
Ian Wolf, Giggle Beats, 2nd May 2011QI: Quite interesting facts about philosophers
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind the BBC quiz show. This week: QI gets philosophical.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 28th April 2011