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QI. Image shows from L to R: Alan Davies, Sandi Toksvig. Copyright: TalkbackThames
QI

QI

  • TV panel show
  • BBC Two / BBC One / BBC Four
  • 2003 - 2025
  • 324 episodes (22 series)

Panel game that contains lots of difficult questions and a large amount of quite interesting facts. Stars Sandi Toksvig, Stephen Fry and Alan Davies.

  • Due to return for Series W
  • Series K, Episode 3 repeated at 9pm on U&Dave
  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 384

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Press clippings Page 48

QI: Quite interesting facts about wind

A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI catches the wind.

Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 3rd February 2011

Cultural insensitivity no laughing matter

The tempest in a teapot whipped up by a segment on the British quiz-cum-comedy show "QI" has prompted debate on cross-cultural sensitivity.

Philip Brasor, The Japan Times, 30th January 2011

BBC apologises for Japanese atomic bomb jokes on QI

Panellists accused of belittling Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived nuclear attacks on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Justin McCurry, The Guardian, 23rd January 2011

QI's jokes about survivor of both A-bombs outrage Japan

The BBC is at the centre of a diplomatic row after the Japanese Embassy protested about an episode of comedy quiz show QI.

Paul Revoir, Daily Mail, 22nd January 2011

BBC sorry for jokes about atom bomb survivor

The BBC has apologised to Japan for an episode of the comedy quiz QI in which Stephen Fry joked about an old man who survived both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Richard Lloyd Parry, The Australian, 22nd January 2011

QI: Quite interesting facts about the heat

A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI is hot to trot.

Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 20th January 2011

QI: Quite interesting facts about the cold

A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI catches cold.

Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 13th January 2011

Does QI really make zero sense?

Continuing our theme for the week - where I respond to reader comments - we're going to take a look at QI (Quite Interesting), the British panel show I mentioned in passing during my Best TV of 2010 blog post.

Chris Philpott, Stuff.co.nz, 10th January 2011

QI: Quite interesting facts about white

A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI turns white.

Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 6th January 2011

QI: QI goes off on one

A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC One quiz show.

Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 1st January 2011

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