QI

QI

Audience Pleasures

Conclusion

QI is a popular game show which appeals to many. It offers many audience pleasures and is suitable to appeal to niche audiences as well as mainstream ones

• The audience can relate to Stephen Fry and Alan Davies as they are permanent members of the show and so are familiar. The viewers form on-screen relationships with them.
• The audience gets entertainment and diversion from the amusing (sometimes joke) answers the panelists give and the interesting real answers
• The audience gets amusement from the silly noises of the buzzers and the siren to humiliate the person who answers wrongly
• The audience gets information and education from learning the real answers and therefore finding out interesting facts

Does it meet BBC remit?

• Informs = provides interesting little known facts and references to culture
• Entertains = amusing discussions, funny answers, funny buzzer sounds/sirens
• Educates = helps extend audience's general knowledge, often with extra information added by erudite, very well educated host Stephen Fry

Overall, this programme meets the BBC remit very well, which is probably why is has become so popular

What is it?

What other channels is it on? Why?

• QI is a panel game show presented by Stephen Fry
• Alan Davies is a permanent panelist
• QI stands for Quite Interesting
• Points are awarded for the most interesting answer as well as the correct one
• Points are deducted for wrong answers or answers that seem obvious but are misconceptions
• QI has had 11 series to date

• QI is also aired on Dave
• Dave is a channel that tries to appeal to a niche audience: mainly men who still have a childish side to their nature
• QI meets this because it is funny but mature enough for adults. It is also quite an unusal style of game show, with it's unique point-scoring system, again making it good for a niche market