I would just like to take the opportunity to say that the Loreal advert, starring – the once credible actor – Pierce Brosnan, is possibly the worst TV advert ever made in the history of the world.
And I thought he’d done his worst in ‘Die Another Day’. I was wrong.
Thank you.
So, ladies and gentlemen, let me just settle something here and now. QI one of the best shows BBC have ever produced.
It is. End of discussion.
I don’t know if there is any other show that is as consistently clever, funny and wonderfully interesting everytime. It has been described as ’simply a Stephen Fry vehicle’, and even if that is true I have no problems with that since I adore the man. Alan Davies must wonder what his agent did to land him this gig and the show is made even more special by the constant talent that fills the seats of the other panel spaces. There have been some incredibly brilliant moments and I was delighted to discover that the Wikipedia site has EVERY episode listed with all questions, facts and diversions documented.
QI also appears to be a YouTube favourite, with almost all the episodes online, and plenty of ‘best of’ montages. Below I have included a clip we were treated to in the ‘deleted scenes and bloopers’ epsode last year. It is, in my mind, one of the funniest moments on TV. Poor old Stephen Fry. Do you know any other show where a moment like this could happen?
You know, they say of the acropolis where the Parthenon is…
The premise for this show suggests that it belongs in a Tim Burton movie, with grey tones and Helena Bonham Carter. But that is not the case. Instead, it’s an imaginative, colourful and vibrant TV show that I have fallen in love with.
Basically, Ned has the ability to bring dead things back to life with just one touch. The snatch is this – once he touches them (or it… it works for fruit and plants too) again, they are dead… this time permanently. And then there is the one minute rule… keep an undead person alive for more than a minute and another person dies… permanently.
Using his powers to solve murders (by asking the victims who killed them, obviously) Ned comes across the corpse of his childhood sweetheart, Chuck (a woman) and finds himself keeping her alive. This of course now causes one slight problem… he can never touch her, or she’ll die.
I gave this show 2 episodes to convince me, and now I am hooked. We are 5 shows in and every episode manages to be different in it’s own quirky way and doesn’t lean too heavily on the gimmick of its premise. There is a large amount of unbelievability to it, but the show seems to assume you will happily go along with it, and carries on anyway.
It’s little things as well that help create the charm – like when Ned (a piemaker… able to keep all the ingredients fresh!) eats one of his own pies, and of course the fruit turns rotten in his mouth. And the ways in which Chuck and Ned find to express their feelings towards each other without any physical contact are suprisingly romantic.
Please check it out and let me know what you think!
