Fry's winning show

BBC greenlights comedy panel game

Stephen Fry is to host a new comedy panel game for BBC2.

Q.I. will feature celebrity teams challenging each other to answer 'absurdly difficult' general knowledge questions.

Among those lined up to appear in the 12-part series are Eddie Izzard and Alan Davies.

The show starts recording in London next week, following a successful pilot made last summer.

Earlier this month, Fry slated the BBC for the "greasy, miserable, British and pathetic" decision to fire Angus Deayton as the host from Have I Got New For You, and vowed to boycott the topical show until he was reinstated.

Free audience tickets are available to the recording of QI. Click here for details.

Published: 28 Apr 2003

Live comedy picks

We see you are using AdBlocker software. Chortle relies on advertisers to fund this website so it’s free for you, so we would ask that you disable it for this site. Our ads are non-intrusive and relevant. Help keep Chortle viable.