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- Genre
- Panel Show
- Broadcast
- 2003 - 2020
- Channels
- BBC Two, BBC One
- Episodes
- 249 (1 pilot + 17 series), plus 26 other episodes
- Creator
- John Lloyd
- Starring
- Sandi Toksvig, Stephen Fry and Alan Davies
- Director
- Ian Lorimer
- 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 company
- 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
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 30th November -0001 on BBC Two
- Last new broadcast
- Friday 3rd January 2020 on BBC Two at 10pm
- Upcoming repeats
- Series D Episode 12: Tomorrow at 8:20pm on Dave
- Series C Episode 1: Tomorrow at 11pm on Dave
- Series C Episode 1: Tuesday at 8:20pm on Dave
- Series D Episode 13: Tuesday at 11pm on Dave
- Series O Episode 2: Wednesday at 10:40pm on Dave
- Series O Episode 2: Thursday at 2:45am on Dave
- Series C Episode 4: Thursday at 8:20pm on Dave
- Series C Episode 6: Thursday at 11pm on Dave
- Series C Episode 6: Friday at 8:20pm on Dave
- Series Q Episode 1: Saturday at 9pm on BBC2Show all repeats
- Series C Episode 7: Monday 23rd September at 8:20pm on Dave
- Series C Episode 10: Tuesday 24th September at 8:20pm on Dave
- Series C Episode 9: Tuesday 24th September at 11pm on Dave
- Series O Episode 4: Wednesday 25th September at 10:40pm on Dave
- Series O Episode 4: Thursday 26th September at 2:35am on Dave
- Series C Episode 11: Thursday 26th September at 8:20pm on Dave
- Series C Episode 12: Thursday 26th September at 11pm on Dave
- Series C Episode 12: Friday 27th September at 8:20pm 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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