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A heads up to all Australian friends of QI:
ABC1 is due to air QI for the first time on Tuesday, 20 October at 9:30 PM, and presumably each Tuesday night thereafter.
The first episode to air will be Flotsam and Jetsam from the "F" series, featuring Rob Brydon, Andy Hamilton, Charlie Higson, and our perennial favourites Stephen Fry and Alan Davies.
Please be sure to tune in to show your support!
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...the new series 'G' of QI won't be starting until December. And when it does, it will be on BBC1, and on a Tuesday. No news yet on whether this will be the regular QI or the extended QI XL versions, as done for series 'F', or indeed whether QI XL will appear on BBC2 or at all.
I haven't posted in a while, so here is a bit of news: a little peek at the new QI Annual, coming in November.
A gargantuan gallimaufry of G-ness that gambols gamely between Galaxies, Gods, Gravity, Gin, Gnus and Gravel--with all our favourites and some surprises--from QI's new BBC1 series showing this autumn:
* Clive Anderson on Gordons
* Rowan Atkinson's Gambling tips
* Bill Bailey's Air Guitar Tutorial
* Craig Brown's G-acronyms
* Jimmy Carr's Guide to Grooming
* Chris Donald of Viz on Geordies, Grocers and Garden Gnomes
* Chef Rowley Leigh's Greedy treats
* Golden Grahams by Graham Norton
...and Ronni Ancona and Rob Brydon in the next installment of their photo luv story.
Illustrational Genius from Jonathan Cusick, Cherry Denman, Ted Dewan, Geoff Dunbar, Beano's Hunt Emerson, Phill Jupitus, Spitting Image's Roger Law, Matt from The Daily Telegraph, Tony Husband and Nick Newman of Private Eye, Katie Scott, Adrian Teal, Robert Thompson, and more.
Adam Jacot de Boinod, a QI elf during Series A who amongst other things revealed Albania's love of eyebrows, has written a third book about obscure words.
However, whilst his first two books, The Meaning of Tingo and Toujours Tingo were all about words that exist in other languages that do not exist in English ("Tingo" is a word in the Pascuense language of Easter Island meaning "to borrow things from a friend's house one by one until there's nothing left") his third book, The Wonder of Whiffling is collection of long-forgotten words in English.
Amongst the words included in this new book are:
* Fornale: To spend one's money before one has earned it.
* Cagg: A solemn vow or resolution not to get drunk for a certain time.
* Petrichor: The pleasent smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell.
* Bowerbird: A person who collects an astonishing array of - often useless - objects.
The Wonder of Whiffling is published by Particular Books and will go on sale on 24 September.
You can pre-order at Amazon and Play.
For those of you who cannot wait any longer without seeing something both new and quite interesting, the BBC has posted a preview clip of one of the episodes in Series G on its press office website.
In order to see it, click here, go to the carousel and click the QI entry.
