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: 228
Press clippings Page 53
QI: Quite Interesting facts about eyes
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind the BBC quiz show. This week: QI looks into your eyes.
Molly Oldfield and John Mitchinson, The Guardian, 7th May 2010QI: Quite Interesting facts about tea
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind the BBC quiz show. This week: QI on tea.
Molly Oldfield and John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 16th April 2010QI: Quite Interesting facts about youth
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind the BBC quiz show. This week: QI on the concept of youth.
Molly Oldfield and John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 9th April 2010Alan Davies: 'I hate QI repeats'
Alan Davies has admitted that he hates QI reruns being frequently shown on TV.
Alex Fletcher, Digital Spy, 2nd April 2010The QI elves had to do a hasty bit of backtracking yesterday, after upsetting animal conservationists. Their daily quirky fact, transmitted to their Twitter followers was: 'Whole baby hammerhead sharks (cooked in white wine with peppercorns, garlic and shallots) are delicious'. However, two hours later, after being contacted by activists at the Bite-Back charity, they deleted their original post and replaced it with: 'QI unequivocally condemns the eating of any endangered animal. More info on the hammerhead's plight at Bite-Back'. The organisation had told the panel show question-setters: 'Shame on you for the ref to eating baby hammerhead sharks. It's ill-educated and wrong to promote the extinction of a species.'
Chortle, 19th March 2010QI: Quite interesting facts about dating
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind the BBC quiz show. This week: QI goes on a date.
Molly Oldfield and John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 19th March 2010Quite Brilliant
It is perhaps a sign of the times that I have never seen my current favourite television show as a conventional TV broadcast, but that's also because it's impossible. QI (Quite Interesting) hasn't been shown on North American television, and might never be. Thank goodness for YouTube.
John Tebbutt, FFWD, 18th March 2010How very British, how very self-deprecating, to name a TV series QI, meaning "quite interesting". It's a "comedy panel quiz show" hosted by the ubiquitous Stephen Fry which, in Britain, started out modestly on one of the BBC's smaller channels and has since moved to BBC One.
It's not hard to see its appeal in that country, with the combination of Fry and comedian Alan Davies, plus a revolving selection of guests. The first episode on Prime on Sunday night was, well, quite interesting. The theme was Fight or Flight, with Fry asking questions to which the panellists were expected to deliver interesting answers, if not necessarily the right ones. Why were Spitfires painted pink? What's the opposite of a flying fish? When lions fight bears, which animal wins?
The guests' efforts to deliver answers were generally nonsense, and Johnny Vegas' accent was so thick it was hard to hear what he was saying - the audience thought he was hilarious - but the answers were quite interesting and poet Pam Ayres won. The scoring system was a complete mystery but any TV which increases general knowledge has got to be a treat these days.
Linda Herrick, The New Zealand Herald, 11th March 2010QI: Quite interesting facts about water
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: the QI team examine all things watery.
Molly Oldfield and John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 11th March 2010QI for America petition receives its 10,000th signature
A petition setup to try and get QI broadcast in America has received its 10,000th signature.
British Comedy Guide, 11th March 2010