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QI: The B Series

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5051442692020
Label : Warner Music Entertainment
Manufacturer : Warner Music Entertainment
Publisher : Warner Music Entertainment
Release date : 2008-03-17
Title : QI: The B Series
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : PAL
Languages : Array
Number of items : 2
Region code : 2
Running time : 410
Studio : Warner Music Entertainment

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Fortunately, you don’t have to be anywhere near as clever and quick-witted as Stephen Fry to enjoy the majesty of Q.I.’s second series. Brought together in its entirety in this DVD set, it’s that rarest of things: a timeless panel show that can be enjoyed over and over again.

What structure there is to Q.I. proves simply to be a platform for questions about obscure topics, and the equally obscure, and quite interesting, answers that follow. It’s a simple idea, majestically realised. With panelists who are genuinely funny and interesting--series regular Alan Davies is joined by the likes of Dara O’Briain, Sean Lock, Rich Hall and the late Linda Smith--each episode is a glorious slice of comedy that you could never accuse of dumbing down.

The theme for this series of Q.I., as you probably guessed from the DVD title, is the letter B, and that’s the glue that holds all the answers together. Yet guiding the show is the quite brilliant Stephen Fry, in a show he was simply made to host. Very funny, quick and--yes!--quite interesting too, he’s simply superb here.

A terrific antidote to the lazy panel show that too often infests our screens, Q.I. is priceless television, and this B series is simply not to be missed. --Jon Foster

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-09-16 rating:

Fry has done a brillant job, again.
This show is just brilliant, it has the best comedians on it and as always Steven Fry shares his intelligence with no trace of being condescending. Alan is great in it too but for his boyishness.

As for the one bad review on here, I looked at that persons other reviews and it's clear that that person is a troll just looking for attention.

review by: CJ date: 2008-08-31 rating:

The Alan Factor
Amen to the other reviews here. For me it's all enhanced by the Alan factor. The poor man only has to open his mouth to set the "urban myth" alarm off, and there's something slightly occult about the way his buzzer noise is always marginally more ridiculous than everyone else's! One of the saving graces of digital age TV.

review by: RT date: 2008-08-22 rating:

Terrible mess
This program is utter rubbish. Irritating music at the start, Alan's 'funny' quiz bell/sound, Stephen's homo-erotic banter with Alan and debunked assumptions of what thought we already knew but didn't. The justifications for us all being so wrong about certain things are tenuous to say the least. I hope Alan bites Stephens ears when he eventually move's to sitting on his knee. What a waste of license payer's money, read a book instead. Or do some ironing. Or carve soap. Anything but this mind numbing hour wasting tedious parlour game.

review by: date: 2008-08-15 rating:

A real comic gem
How wonderful to see the BBC finally giving up complete season box sets. At least with QI. (Now just do the same, Auntie, with Mock The Week and I'll be your fan for life).

QI is one of my favourite comedy shows. It lacks the smugness and sometimes unpleasant undertang of meanness that comes with Paul Merton and Ian Hislop in Have I Got News For You (I enjoy HIGNFY but prefer the sight of panellists just having sheer fun with each other and obviously loving every minute that you get with QI and MTW). And watching Stephen Fry - the walking encyclopedia - expound on fascinating facts is a wonder. His sheer love of language and facts sweeps you up in his enthusiasm every time.

Alan Davies plays the patsy and foil to Fry very well and is often very amusing. He's never been my favourite comedian, but in this he shines. I love the way the panellists banter with Fry and each other, especially when they tease Fry about his upper crust manners and drive him to exasperation at times, like a frustrated schoolmaster.

I'm delighted to finally see season two arrive. Here's hoping the Beeb brings out the others, post haste!

review by: date: 2008-08-02 rating:

Whahay
QI is a class act in every way, shape and form. It continues to be as entertaining as it is informative and damned worth a watch whoever you are and whatever your interests might be.

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