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 4 repeated at 9pm on U&Dave
Press clippings Page 49
The set is bedecked with ivy and gargolyles; Stephen Fry has a fez on; his four guests are wearing hooded capes. It's all because tonight, H is for hocus-pocus, a magic-themed Christmas special with the most famous wizard of them all, Daniel Radcliffe, joining the ranks of naughty pupils trying to second guess Professor Fry's fascinating facts. The show nearly comes off the rails when Lee Mack, on brilliant form, has a spelling-related set-to with the host. "Are you incapable of rational thought?" wails Fry, "You can't be that stupid!" Mack's punishment is to end the show sawn in half by Alan Davies (Radcliffe suffers worse), but before then we discover what the word "muggle" originally meant, and hear an intriguing theory about cracker jokes.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 24th December 2010Whether you're sick of the sight of Stephen Fry or think his national treasure status is as strong as ever, there's no denying the consistency of QI, which even in its eighth series still has no rival as the quiz show for the discerning viewer. Joining Alan Davies this week are Jimmy Carr, Dara O'Briain (the host of The Apprentice: You're Fired! Wednesdays) and BBC sports presenter Clare Balding.
The Telegraph, 10th December 2010QI: Which came first...
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI cracks some eggs.
Molly Oldfield and John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 10th December 2010QI: Quite interesting facts about seeds
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI collects seeds.
Molly Oldfield and John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 3rd December 2010QI: Quite interesting facts about slowing down
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI slows down.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 25th November 2010QI elves hail York's IQ
The QI elves have declared York the cleverest city in the UK.
Julie Hayes, The York Press, 11th November 2010QI: Quite Interesting facts about rare birds
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: rare birds.
Molly Oldfield and John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 11th November 2010General Ignorance sweeps Great Britain...
On the publication of The Second Book of General Ignorance, John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and the QI team can reveal that Britain's most generally ignorant town is ... Swindon!
The Thought Fox, 8th November 2010Is QI having a laugh at Swindon?
Been dubbed the most ignorant town in Britain has outraged the people of Swindon.
Swindon Advertiser, 8th November 2010QI: Quite Interesting facts about green
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI turns green.
Molly Oldfield & John Mitchinson, The Telegraph, 5th November 2010