No Such Thing as the News
| No Such Thing as the News | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy |
| Presented by |
James Harkin Andrew Hunter Murray Anna Ptaszynski Dan Schreiber |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | John Lloyd |
| Location(s) | Greenwich, London |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Two |
| Original release | 20 May 2016 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
No Such Thing As A Fish QI The Museum of Curiosity The Unbelievable Truth |
| External links | |
| Production website | |
No Such Thing as the News is a British television comedy series on BBC Two, which is a spin-off to the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, produced and presented by the researchers behind the panel game QI, also on BBC Two. In it each of the researchers - James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber - collectively known as "The QI Elves", present their favourite facts related to the previous week's news.[1]
Origin
No Such Thing as the News originally began as a spin-off to No Such Thing as a Fish, which sees the four QI elves discuss their favourite facts that they had learned that week. The show's title comes from a fact in the QI TV series. In the third episode of eighth series, also known as "Series H", an episode on the theme of "Hoaxes" reported that after a lifetime studying fish the biologist Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there was no such thing as a fish. He reasoned that while there are many sea creatures, most of them are not closely related to each other. For example, a salmon is more closely related to a camel than it is to a hagfish.[2] The opening of early episodes of the podcast used to feature a recording of the elves mentioning this fact, which appears in the first paragraph of the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater Life.[3][4]
Production
The series was commissioned by James Harding, Director of BBC News. The show is recorded in Greenwich, London, and is produced by John Lloyd, the inventor of QI.[1]
References
- 1 2 "BBC Two orders No Such Thing As The News from QI team". British Comedy Guide. 29 April 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ "Hoaxes". QI. Series H. Episode 3. QI Transcripts. 1 October 2010. BBC. BBC One.
- ↑ Campbell, Andrew; Dawes, John, eds. (2005). "Fish, What is a?". Encyclopedia of Underwater Life: Aquatic Invertebrates and Fishes. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780192806741.001.0001. ISBN 9780192806741.
- ↑ Dessau, Bruce (29 April 2014). "Podcast Review: No Such Thing as a Fish". Beyond the Joke. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
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