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- Genre
- Panel Show
- Broadcast
- 2003 - 2021
- Channels
- BBC Two, BBC One
- Episodes
- 269 (1 pilot + 18 series), plus 25 2 Halloween Specials, 1 Shakespare Special
- Creator
- John Lloyd
- Starring
- Sandi Toksvig, Stephen Fry and Alan Davies
- Directors
- Ian Lorimer and Diccon Ramsay
- Producers
- John Lloyd and Piers Fletcher
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 original 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."
Each show features the host, Stephen Fry (Series A-M) and then later Sandi Toksvig (Series N onwards), and four panellists, including resident player Alan Davies, answering questions that are so difficult that no-one expects to get any of the answers right. Thus points are given for answers that may not be right but are interesting. Points are taken away (often from Alan), to answers that are not only wrong but are pathetically obvious.
QI is the show that proves that almost everything you know about the blue whale is wrong, the issue of how many moons the Earth has is a lot more complicated than you expect, and that there is something interesting to say about the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is.
- Production companies
- Also known as
- Quite Interesting (Other official name)
- QI XL (Other official name)
- QI VG (Other official name)
- Soundtrack
- Theme music by Howard Goodall.
- Laugh track
- Yes, but type varies
Broadcast details
- Upcoming repeats
- Series H Episode 15: Today at 8:40pm on Dave
- Series H Episode 16: Today at 9:20pm on Dave
- Series H Episode 1: Tomorrow at 12:20am on Dave
- Series H Episode 2: Tomorrow at 1am on Dave
- Series H Episode 1: Tomorrow at 8:40pm on Dave
- Series H Episode 2: Tomorrow at 9:20pm on Dave
- Series L Episode 3: Saturday at 12:40am on Dave
- Series L Episode 4: Saturday at 1:20am on Dave
- Series O Episode 10: Sunday at 11pm on Dave
- Series O Episode 11: Sunday at 11:40pm on DaveShow all repeats
- Series O Episode 10: Monday at 8:40pm on Dave
- Series O Episode 11: Monday at 9:20pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 1: Tuesday at 12:40am on Dave
- Series I Episode 2: Tuesday at 1:20am on Dave
- Series I Episode 1: Tuesday at 8:40pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 2: Tuesday at 9:20pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 3: Wednesday at 12:40am on Dave
- Series I Episode 4: Wednesday at 1:20am on Dave
- Series I Episode 3: Wednesday at 8:40pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 4: Wednesday at 9:20pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 5: Thursday 4th March at 12:20am on Dave
- Series I Episode 6: Thursday 4th March at 1am on Dave
- Series I Episode 5: Thursday 4th March at 8:40pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 6: Thursday 4th March at 9:20pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 7: Friday 5th March at 12:20am on Dave
- Series I Episode 8: Friday 5th March at 1am on Dave
- Series I Episode 7: Friday 5th March at 8:40pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 8: Friday 5th March at 9:20pm on Dave
- Series L Episode 5: Saturday 6th March at 12:40am on Dave
- Series L Episode 6: Saturday 6th March at 1:20am on Dave
- Series Q Episode 4: Sunday 7th March at 11pm on Dave
- Series Q Episode 4: Monday 8th March at 8pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 9: Tuesday 9th March at 8:40pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 10: Tuesday 9th March at 9:20pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 9: Wednesday 10th March at 12:40am on Dave
- Series I Episode 10: Wednesday 10th March at 1:20am on Dave
- Series I Episode 12: Wednesday 10th March at 8:40pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 13: Wednesday 10th March at 9:20pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 12: Thursday 11th March at 12:20am on Dave
- Series I Episode 13: Thursday 11th March at 1am on Dave
- Series I Episode 11: Thursday 11th March at 8:40pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 16: Thursday 11th March at 9:20pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 11: Friday 12th March at 12:20am on Dave
- Series I Episode 16: Friday 12th March at 1am on Dave
- Shakespeare Season Special Episode 1: Friday 12th March at 8:40pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 18: Friday 12th March at 9:20pm on Dave
- Shakespeare Season Special Episode 1: Saturday 13th March at 12:40am on Dave
- Series I Episode 18: Saturday 13th March at 1:20am on Dave
Website links
- QI.com
QI's offical website. - BBC's QI Homepage
The BBC's homepage for QI. - QI Talk
The main QI blog. - QI Telegraph Column
A QI newspaper column written by elves. - QI Transcripts
List of QI transcripts. - Dutch QI
If you are from the Netherlands, you might be quite interested to know that the Dutch have their own version of QI. - QI Production Design Blog
A blog about the art and design of QI, by the show's production designer Jonathan Paul Green. - Podcast - No Such Thing As A Fish
A podcast series from the QI elves. - Tripipedia
A blog by QI elf James Harkin and his travels around the world in the name of QI research. - Tumblr
The show's official page on Tumblr. - @qikipedia
- YouTube
- IMDb
- Wikipedia

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