QI is a panel game which believes that everything in the world is quite interesting, provided that you look at it in the right way. To quote host Stephen Fry:

"Now, the rules are simple. Scoring is my business. Points are given and points are taken away. They are taken away for answers which are both obvious and wrong, and they're given, not so much for being correct, as for being interesting. Their level of interestingness is impartially determined by a demographically selected customer-service focus consultancy, broken down by age and sex - i.e. me. Because there is no-one more broken down by age and sex."

Our Review: Quite interesting. QI is one of those rare shows which proves not all TV is dumbing down.

The show provides you with extensive knowledge of things you never knew existed, and corrects knowledge that you always believed to be true. For example Henry VIII did not have six wives, Sweden does not have the world's highest suicide rate and the Scottish did not invent haggis.

To be a comedy though, QI needs to be more than just interesting. What makes it such a great show is that it manages to very funny whilst imparting the facts. Much of the magic is down to Stephen Fry's role as "Qi Master", alongside regular "Bantermeister" (and frequent loser) Alan Davies who between them manage to give the show a wonderful, warm feeling.

Having said all this, there is a feeling from some that the quality of the show has gone downhill recently. Some people claim that since the move to BBC One and the move to a pre-watershed slot, the standard of the show has deteriorated. Some are saying the show is not as interesting as of previous years, and that the guest are becoming too smug. At least they can improve it by making Stephen not say that extra long "Good" at the beginning of each episode which he has started doing in Series G.

The great news for fans is that QI is a twenty six year project - thus we have plenty more episodes to look forward to. During Series F, QI moved to BBC One due to its popularity, with extended repeats (called QI XL) on BBC Two. The seventh series, Series G, is the longest series yet, consisting of 18 episodes. An 8th series, Series H, has also been commissioned and will be 16 episodes long.

While QI is clever, it is however, not always right. It has sometimes made the odd mistake (for example, claiming that the Welsh have no word for "Blue"). If you want to quibble with QI, head to the QI Qibble Blog