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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 P Episode 11: Today at 9pm on Dave
- Series P Episode 11: Tomorrow at 2am on Dave
- Series P Episode 12: Tomorrow at 9pm on Dave
- Series P Episode 12: Saturday at 1:20am on Dave
- Series N Episode 2: Sunday at 12am on Dave
- Series N Episode 2: Sunday at 8pm on Dave
- Series P Episode 13: Monday at 9pm on Dave
- Series P Episode 13: Tuesday at 1:35am on Dave
- Series P Episode 14: Tuesday at 9pm on Dave
- Series P Episode 14: Wednesday at 2am on DaveShow all repeats
- Series P Episode 15: Wednesday at 9pm on Dave
- Series N Episode 12: Wednesday at 10pm on BBC2
- Series P Episode 15: Thursday 29th April at 1:40am on Dave
- Series P Episode 16: Thursday 29th April at 9pm on Dave
- Series P Episode 16: Friday 30th April at 2am on Dave
- Series N Episode 4: Friday 30th April at 9pm on Dave
- Series N Episode 3: Sunday 2nd May at 12am on Dave
- Series N Episode 3: Sunday 2nd May at 8pm on Dave
- Series M Episode 1: Tuesday 4th May at 1pm on Dave
- Series M Episode 1: Tuesday 4th May at 9pm on Dave
- Series M Episode 1: Wednesday 5th May at 1:20am on Dave
- Series M Episode 2: Wednesday 5th May at 1pm on Dave
- Series M Episode 2: Wednesday 5th May at 9pm on Dave
- Series M Episode 2: Thursday 6th May at 1:40am on Dave
- Series M Episode 3: Thursday 6th May at 1pm on Dave
- Series M Episode 3: Thursday 6th May at 9pm on Dave
- Series M Episode 3: Friday 7th May at 2am on Dave
- Series M Episode 4: Friday 7th May at 1pm on Dave
- Series M Episode 4: Friday 7th May at 9pm 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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