QI Elves behind No Such Thing As A Fish podcast land own BBC show

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No Such Thing As The News will see the QI researchers discuss the most interesting things they've found in the news that week.

The series will be produced by John Lloyd who, was well as creating QI, was behind Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image and produced all four Blackadder series.

“The last time I started a topical TV comedy show with four exceptionally talented but completely unknown stars was Not The Nine O’Clock News in 1979,” Lloyd said. “No Such Thing As The News is radically different but equally exciting – and 37 years younger.”

Five episodes of No Such Thing As The News are currently planned, with the series set to air after Newsnight later this month.
 
Starting tonight on BBC2 at 2305. :)

BBC
Confirmed for BBC Two on 20 May at 11.05pm to 11.35pm

Ep 1/5

Friday 20 May

11.05pm-11.35pm

BBC TWO

NEW
No Such Thing As The News is a topical, television-version of the award-winning QI podcast No Such Thing As A Fish.
Filmed in front of a live audience, No Such Thing As The News is fast, intelligent and witty television, unlike any other show about the week's events. It aims to do for the news what QI does for the universe at large: making the dull interesting, the obscure clear and the frightening comprehensible, with four young QI researchers - James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber.

Dubbed 'The QI Elves' by Stephen Fry they will be sharing the most interesting things they've discovered in the news that week. No Such Thing As The News is a fresh new way of delivering news to make viewers not just better informed but feeling better about the world afterwards as well.

Produced for BBC News by John Lloyd, creator of The News Quiz, Spitting Image, Blackadder and QI, and edited by Keith Blackmore, Managing Editor of BBC News & Current Affairs.

*In 110 weekly editions since its launch in 2014, No Such Thing As A Fish has been downloaded 25 million times and attracted 715,000 subscribers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2016/20/no-such-thing-as-the-news
 
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