QI
- TV panel show
- BBC Two / BBC One / BBC Four
- 2003 - 2024
- 312 episodes (21 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.
- Continues on Tuesday on BBC2 at 9pm with Series U, Episode 14
- Catch-up on Series U, Episode 13
Streaming rank this week: 515
Press clippings Page 9
Extracts from QI's latest factbook
Here are the jaw-dropping best, and if you don't believe them you can cross-refer from the book to the QI website ([url]qi.com/1342[/url]) to discover where the elves found the information...
Daily Mail, 4th November 2016Sandi Toksvig continues to sharpen up the amiably informative panel show. This week's Nordic theme plays to her Danish roots, taking in protest pigs, sperm exportation and the elusive but suddenly omnipresent concept of "hygge" (Toksvig's handy summation: "bring beer"). Joining Alan Davies are panelists Jason Manford, Lucy Beaumont and Rhod Gilbert. The latter's inability to distinguish between Scandinavian countries serves Davies's transition from class dunce to teacher's pet.
Bella Todd, The Guardian, 28th October 2016Forget Stephen Fry - Sandi Toksvig has made QI sing
Toksvig holds her own as the sharp, no-nonsense new QI host, cutting through the show's smugness and blowing away the cobwebs of Fry's tenure
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 28th October 2016We visited the QI offices to see what the elves do
Biscuits are involved. Also Jeremy the lefty snail.
Chris Longridge, Digital Spy, 27th October 2016The 14th series of the knowingly esoteric quiz has reached the letter N which, for this opening episode, should probably stand for "new host". Sandi Toksvig takes over in the big chair and - considering how Stephen Fry's bluff smartypants approach helped define QI - the transition is remarkably seamless. Panellists Romesh Ranganathan, Cariad Lloyd, Phill Jupitus and original fixture Alan Davies are effortlessly steered and/or needled as required.
Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 21st October 2016Sandi Toksvig on QI, Stephen Fry, and her open wedding
Playwright, novelist, budding politician, handywoman and now QI quizmistress - is there nothing Sandi Toksvig can't do?
Ginny Dougary, Radio Times, 21st October 2016QI is in the safest of hands
The trouble is, if pushed, I would say - and this is not sacrilege, bear with me - that in recent series, even under Fry's tutelage, QI has gone very slightly off the boil, as long-running panel games will. A slight shake-up to the format might be just what it needs.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 21st October 2016QI: Toksvig triumphs in her first appearance as host
Does the series have a future with Toksvig as host? Indubitably - a word we probably first heard used in a sentence on QI.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 21st October 2016Preview: QI - Series N
It was sad to see Stephen Fry leave QI at the end of Series M, but fans of the intellectual panel game have no need to worry with Sandi Toksvig in charge.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 20th October 2016Toksvig: Davies's one of the cleverest people I know
Presenter tells how her relationship with Davies is different from his with Stephen Fry, and reveals her passion for boxing.
The Guardian, 14th October 2016