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- Genre
- Panel Show
- Broadcast
- 2003 - 2019
- Channels
- BBC Two, BBC One
- Episodes
- 249 (1 pilot + 17 series), plus 26 other episodes
- Creator
- John Lloyd
- Starring
- Sandi Toksvig, Stephen Fry, Alan Davies and John Lloyd
- Director
- Ian Lorimer
- Producers
- John Lloyd, Piers Fletcher, Phil Clarke, Lorraine Heggessey, Mark Freeland, Sally Debonnaire, Katie Taylor, Simon London, David Morley, Ruby Kuraishe and others
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
Location
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Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 30th November -0001 on BBC Two
- Last new broadcast
- Friday 8th March 2019 on BBC Two at 10pm
- Upcoming repeats
- Series I Episode 4: Tomorrow at 9pm on Dave
- Series P Episode 1: Tomorrow at 10pm on BBC2
- Series I Episode 5: Monday at 9pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 6: Tuesday at 1am on Dave
- Series I Episode 6: Tuesday at 9pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 7: Wednesday at 1am on Dave
- Series I Episode 7: Wednesday at 9pm on Dave
- Series I Episode 10: Thursday 28th March at 1:10am on Dave
- Series I Episode 10: Thursday 28th March at 9pm on Dave
- Series B Episode 4: Friday 29th March at 1:40am on DaveShow all repeats
- Series B Episode 4: Friday 29th March at 11pm on Dave
- Series B Episode 9: Saturday 30th March at 12:40am on Dave
- Series O Episode 7: Saturday 30th March at 10pm on Dave
- Series N Episode 10: Tuesday 2nd April at 1am on Dave
- Series N Episode 14: Wednesday 3rd April at 1am on Dave
- Series N Episode 14: Wednesday 3rd April at 9pm on Dave
- Series N Episode 15: Thursday 4th April at 12:40am on Dave
- Series N Episode 15: Thursday 4th April at 9pm on Dave
- Series M Episode 1: Friday 5th April at 9pm on Dave
- Series M Episode 1: Saturday 6th April at 1am 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