The BBC has ordered a second series of No Such Thing As The News, the spin-off from the hit podcast from the QI researchers.

A second series of eight episodes will start on BBC Two on October 12, running at 11.15pm on Wednesdays, after Newsnight.

The show was the first comedy to be commissioned by the BBC’s news and current affairs department since David Frost's That Was The Week That Was in 1962.

A low-cost TV version of the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast, the show consists of presenters Dan Schreiber, Anna Ptaszynski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin picking out interesting facts from the week’s news.

One Chortle commentator noted that the first series was shot so cheaply at Up The Creek comedy club in Greenwich, South London, that it ‘looks like a hostage video’.

But the BBC said: ‘While it’s undeniably cheap, its other point of difference is that it’s cheerful. Who would ever have thought the news could be this much fun?’

The series is produced by John Lloyd, the man behind The News Quiz, Not The Nine O’Clock News, Blackadder, Spitting Image and QI.

And the second series will include bonus material to be streamed live on the BBC News Facebook page.

• Read our review of series one here.

Published: 9 Sep 2016