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 48
BBC sorry for jokes about atom bomb survivor
The BBC has apologised to Japan for an episode of the comedy quiz QI in which Stephen Fry joked about an old man who survived both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Richard Lloyd Parry, The Australian, 22nd January 2011QI: Quite interesting facts about the heat
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI is hot to trot.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 20th January 2011QI: Quite interesting facts about the cold
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI catches cold.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 13th January 2011Does QI really make zero sense?
Continuing our theme for the week - where I respond to reader comments - we're going to take a look at QI (Quite Interesting), the British panel show I mentioned in passing during my Best TV of 2010 blog post.
Chris Philpott, Stuff.co.nz, 10th January 2011QI: Quite interesting facts about white
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI turns white.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 6th January 2011QI: QI goes off on one
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC One quiz show.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 1st January 2011The set is bedecked with ivy and gargolyles; Stephen Fry has a fez on; his four guests are wearing hooded capes. It's all because tonight, H is for hocus-pocus, a magic-themed Christmas special with the most famous wizard of them all, Daniel Radcliffe, joining the ranks of naughty pupils trying to second guess Professor Fry's fascinating facts. The show nearly comes off the rails when Lee Mack, on brilliant form, has a spelling-related set-to with the host. "Are you incapable of rational thought?" wails Fry, "You can't be that stupid!" Mack's punishment is to end the show sawn in half by Alan Davies (Radcliffe suffers worse), but before then we discover what the word "muggle" originally meant, and hear an intriguing theory about cracker jokes.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 24th December 2010Whether you're sick of the sight of Stephen Fry or think his national treasure status is as strong as ever, there's no denying the consistency of QI, which even in its eighth series still has no rival as the quiz show for the discerning viewer. Joining Alan Davies this week are Jimmy Carr, Dara O'Briain (the host of The Apprentice: You're Fired! Wednesdays) and BBC sports presenter Clare Balding.
The Telegraph, 10th December 2010QI: Which came first...
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI cracks some eggs.
Molly Oldfield and John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 10th December 2010QI: Quite interesting facts about seeds
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI collects seeds.
Molly Oldfield and John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 3rd December 2010