QI

8:00pm – Wednesday, November 28 on ABC1

The Christmas Special from 2011 – ‘QI on Ice’ – as Stephen Fry calls it, with guests Sean Lock, Ross Noble and Brian Blessed joining full-time panellist Alan Davis and ‘games master’ Stephen Fry.

Stephen introduces the ‘Nobody Knows’ bonus: if any panellist can identify the question where no one knows the answer, they win a bonus. And then starts the special by going on to ask: ‘where in the world do they take the most days off work and have the most expensive Big Mac’s?’ With subjects covering Iceland, Huskies, Eskimos and Abominable Snowmen there is a decidedly cool feel to this festive special…

8:00pm – Wednesday, August 22 on ABC1

This week it’s a special Shakespearean edition of QI, dedicated to and entitled the Immortal Bard. Strutting and fretting their hour upon the stage tonight are the two Gentlemen of Verona, David Mitchell and Bill Bailey, the Merry Wife of Windsor, Sue Perkins, and Much Ado About Nothing, Alan Davies.

8:00pm – Wednesday, August 15 on ABC1

On tonight’s QI, the panel are giving themselves up to an evening of idleness and indolence.

Joining Stephen Fry in the hammock, with a large gin and tonic and this week’s edition of Knitting Today, there’s the inactive Ross Noble, the immobile Dara O’Briain, the indolent Jeremy Clarkson, and the simply inoperative Alan Davies.

Tonight’s episode of QI is another instalment of ‘I’ related information.

8:00pm – Wednesday, August 8 on ABC1

Tonight’s episode of QI is going to be pretty infantile.

Playing mummies and daddies tonight are; daddy cool, Dave Gorman, yummy mummy, Ronni Ancona, happy pappy, Lee Mack, and the curse of the mummy’s tomb, Alan Davies.

Tonight’s episode of QI is another instalment of ‘I’ related information including intimate questions and infant incubators.

8:00pm – Wednesday, August 1 on ABC1

This week’s idiot-proof episode of QI takes a quite interesting look at intelligence.

Joining Stephen Fry are some of the biggest brains of Britain – the discerning David Mitchell, the judicious Jo Brand, the perspicacious Phill Jupitus, and the… Alan Davies.

Tonight’s episode of QI is another instalment of ‘I’ related information including intelligent birds, interviews, interpersonal skills, and iron shirt robots.

8:00pm – Friday, May 18 on ABC1

Be enlightened on tonight’s episode of QI as the theme ‘illumination’ is discussed. Joining QI master Stephen Fry are bright sparks Chris Addison, Jack Dee, Rich Hall and Alan Davies.

To kick the show off Stephen Fry asks, “In 1879 the Blackpool Illumination began. They were visited by up to one hundred thousand people from all over Britain and were so bright that they were described as ‘artificial sunshine’. And my question simply is, how many lamps did they use?”

8:00pm – Friday, May 11 on ABC1

Tonight’s episode of QI is another instalment of ‘I’ related information including income tax, inflation and imperial Rome. Joining QI master Stephen Fry are Alan Davies, Al Murray, Sandi Toksvig and Dara O’Briain.

The first question this week, “Describe, if you can, in detail, the world’s most exotic tax inspectors?” This is followed by another tricky tax question for the panellists when they are asked to compare the tax advantages of being a drug dealer in Tennessee to those of being a bank robber in the Netherlands.

8:00pm – Friday, April 20 on ABC1

In keeping with tonight’s theme this episode of QI is utterly ‘Incomprehensible’. QI master Stephen Fry is joined by Alan Davies, Prof Brian Cox, Ross Noble and Sue Perkins.

To kick off the show some audio of animal language is played to the panellists who are asked to explain what it means. Then it’s time for some interplanetary incomprehension when Stephen Fry asks, “What did the Pope’s librarian say when he first saw the rings around the planet Saturn?”

8:00pm – Friday, April 27 on ABC1

QI master Stephen Fry is tonight joined by Alan Davies, Sandi Toksvig, Clive Anderson and Henning Wehn. This week’s show is all about ‘Injustice and Inequality’. To demonstrate that on this episode nothing will be fair, ten points are unjustly taken away from Alan Davies.

The first of the unfair questions begins when Stephen Fry asks, “What can you tell me about the Puritans in America?” Leading to his next question, “What key role did a Puritan pig play in the trial of George Spencer in 1641?”

8:00pm – Friday, April 13 on ABC1

Tonight QI master Stephen Fry is reinventing the wheel, in a show all about ‘Inventions’. Joining Stephen are panellists Nina Conti, Sean Lock, Bill Bailey and Alan Davies.

Stephen Fry begins by asking, “Why should you be glad that you didn’t invent the flying car, the parachute suit or the web rotary press?”