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| Besides known as | Pointless Celebrities (celebrity version) |
| Genre | Quiz show |
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| Theme music composer | Marc Sylvan |
| Country of origin | United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland |
| Original language | English |
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| Original release | 24 August 2009 (2009-08-24) – present |
Pointless is a British television quiz show produced by Banijay subsidiary Remarkable Television for the BBC. It is hosted past Alexander Armstrong with assistance from Richard Osman. In each episode 4 teams of two contestants endeavour to find correct simply obscure answers to iv rounds of full general knowledge questions, with the winning team eligible to compete for the prove's cash jackpot. All questions used on the show are factual in nature, and are asked of a console of 100 individuals in a pre-conducted public survey. A right answer scores i point for each survey subject area who gave it, and the objective is to attain as low a score equally possible. "Pointless" answers, correct responses that were non given by anyone surveyed, score null points and are the almost desirable. Every pointless answer given during the chief game increases the jackpot by £250, and the team that reaches the final round has iii chances to win it by giving ane such reply.
Pointless debuted on BBC Two on 24 August 2009. The success of its first three serial led the BBC to move it to BBC One from 2011. On occasions when BBC1 carries live broadcasts of major news or sport events, the plan is transferred to BBC2, for example during the pandemic of 2020. As of Apr 2022[update] the programme is airing its 27th series[one] and has had peak audition figures of over seven million viewers.[2] An offshoot of the prove entitled Pointless Celebrities was start shown in 2011, and as of Apr 2022[update] had reached series 15.[three] The format has been exported internationally.
On 8 Apr 2022, Osman announced that he would step downward as co-presenter of the serial to focus more on his writing career, although he will still co-present with Armstrong on Pointless Celebrities on a brusque-term contract before leaving the series fully. Rotating guest-presenters will take his identify until a new permanent presenter is institute.[4]
Gameplay [edit]
Teams of two contestants attempt to provide answers that are not only correct, but also as obscure as possible. The programme initially featured five teams per episode, but the field was later reduced to four. On each episode, contestants answer a series of questions that were put to 100 members of the general public in a previously conducted online survey, which had a time limit of 100 seconds.[5] In one case a question is asked at the start of a circular, the contestants are given details as to what constitutes a valid answer. If a squad's reply is correct, they score one indicate for each participant who gave it during the survey; an answer given by none of the participants is termed "pointless" and adds nothing to the team's score. If the answer is incorrect, the team scores the maximum of 100 points. One time a question or laissez passer is complete, depending on the specific format of the circular, any remaining pointless answers are stated along with the high-scoring answers given in the survey, usually the acme three.[6]
The game begins with two elimination rounds, in which teams must achieve equally low a score as possible. The rounds are scored independently of i some other, and the team with the highest score in each round is eliminated from the game. If two or more teams are tied for the highest score in either of these rounds, a "lockdown" tiebreaker is played amongst them, using the terminal question from the circular and the same scoring rules. If the score remains tied, an "emergency question" is asked to break information technology. In the 3rd "Head-to-Caput" round, the two surviving teams compete against each other to find low-scoring answers; the get-go team to win two questions moves on to the final round.
Teams may return to the programme until they have either reached the final circular one time or been eliminated in iii sequent episodes, whichever occurs first. The squad that reaches the final circular is awarded a pair of trophies to keep. They must then supply three responses to a question with many correct answers (e.g. name films directed by a specified managing director, or proper name a song by a specified singer). If any of the answers is pointless, they win the jackpot as it stands for that game; otherwise, the money rolls over to the next show.
The jackpot increases past £250 for every pointless answer given in any round except the final. If a team reaches the final but fails to win the jackpot, the whole amount is rolled over to the next game and increased by £1,000. As of September 2021[update] the highest recorded jackpot won on the bear witness was £24,750 on 8 March 2013.[7] [8] Once the jackpot is won, the amount is reset to £1,000. For the celebrity version, the jackpot is fix at £2,500 and increases by £250 for each pointless answer plant, while special editions take the jackpot set at £five,000 and increased past £500 for each pointless answer constitute; in neither version does the jackpot roll over to some other bear witness.
Prior to series 25, teams became ineligible to return after appearing on two sequent episodes or reaching the final once, whichever occurred first. This dominion was relaxed for the program's 1,000th episode, in which four past jackpot-winning teams were invited to compete again.
Emptying rounds [edit]
During an elimination round, teams aim to score equally few points equally possible. Each round consists of a question derived from a discipline, with each member of a squad required to give an answer during a pass; each round consists of 2 passes, and teams must determine who volition play which pass before the question is asked. Teammates may not confer on answers during the round. Club of play for the starting time laissez passer is adamant by random draw in the first round, and by ascending guild of starting time-round scores in the 2nd. For the 2nd pass in each round, the order of play is reversed.
Later on both passes are complete, the team with the highest score for the round is eliminated from the game. In the event of a necktie for high score, the affected teams are immune to confer and offer one more answer to the question as a tiebreaker. If the scores remain tied afterwards this pass, the question is thrown out and a new 1 is played. All scores are reset to null at the beginning of the second round.
Six different formats for the questions accept been used during the programme's run for the elimination rounds in each game:
- Open-Concluded – Contestants are given the question, and have gratuitous choice of what answer to give. In the commencement serial, this format was used three times in this round, before subsequent episodes used it no more than in one case. A modified version of this format is sometimes used in which the contestants must name items that belong to any of several sub-categories (e.g. given a list of acronyms, choose one and state the word represented by any one of its letters).
- Possible Answers – Introduced in the second series, contestants are given a board of potential answers to a question and must each pick i, attempting to find the obscure ones on the board and avoid picking out a wrong answer. Each laissez passer consists of two boards, each possessing at least one pointless reply and 1 incorrect respond, the latter usually having some indirect link (oft humorous) with the question. This format immune categories to exist used in which no unremarkably agreed definitive list of correct answers might exist. It was discontinued following the end of the fifth serial, simply revived as a bonus round midway through series 23.
- Clues and Answers – Introduced in the third series, contestants are given a list of clues related to the topic of the question, whereupon they must select a clue and provide the correct answer connected to it. An case of this format is that a list could contain the names of different battles, and the questions requires a contestant to name the country in which it occurred (e.yard., "the Boxing of Hastings" – "England"). Although the round follows a similar mode to that of the "Possible Answers" format, there is no guarantee that contestants may find a pointless reply from within the list. If a team answers incorrectly, that clue remains in play and can be chosen again. The number of inkling/answer pairs is always three more than the number of teams playing a round, and a new lath is used on each laissez passer.
- Linked Categories – Introduced in the fifth series, each pass consists of 2 closely related categories; 1 squad member provides an answer related to the first category, while the other provides an respond to the second category. The format follows the same principles as that of the "Open-concluded" format, but was rarely used, and was later discontinued after the series.
- Picture Lath – Introduced in the seventh series, contestants are shown a filigree of pictures or items and must place i at a time. In some cases, the pictures take some of the letters in their right answers filled in and/or serve every bit clues to items that must be named.
- Function Identification - Introduced in the twenty-fourth serial, contestants are shown seven items and iv groups into which they must be sorted (due east.k. given a list of seven parts of the human head, decide whether each is found in the brain, ear, eye, or oral cavity). Each contestant selects one item and must identify the group to which it belongs. As in "Clues and Answers," a new board is played on each pass, and an wrong guess leaves that item available to opponents.
As of Series 25, the most common format for the emptying rounds involves "Clues and Answers" for 1, and either "Open-Concluded" or "Picture Board" for the other. For all formats except "Open up-Ended" and "Film Board," the last contestant or team to play on a item lath is invited to respond as many remaining items as they wish before selecting 1 to use on that turn.
Head-to-caput [edit]
The two remaining teams compete against each other, answering questions with the intention of finding the everyman scores possible. Both teams can now confer, and the winning squad of this round moves on to the Final. The format of this round has differed, as listed below:
- Series i – The teams take turns providing i answer to a question at a time and attempting to score as few points as possible. The lower-scoring team from the elimination rounds chooses 1 of ii categories to be played. Each team is given an equal number of turns; if at least one squad has exceeded 100 at the end of a laissez passer, the round ends and the lower-scoring team wins.
- Serial 2–five – Both teams compete in a multi-question best-of contest; best-of-5 for the 2d serial, best-of-iii from the third series. Each team must give an answer to a question, and once both have washed and then, the lower score of the two wins the question and earns that team a point. Each question will ordinarily have a minimum of four answers to choose from, and the club of play is that the squad who acquired the fewest points in the emptying rounds gets to respond first on the starting time question.
- Since Series half-dozen – Both teams compete in a multi-question all-time-of-three contest; while the format is the same since the third serial, all questions accept five answers, with each squad choosing 1. Questions follow one of three formats: Picture show Board (occasionally using sound cues or with some letters of the correct answer filled in); Clues and Answers; or answers that take been scrambled/anagrammed or had some of their letters removed. Both teams may choose the same particular, if the second team to play believes that the first has answered incorrectly. The second team is invited to make full in as many missing answers as they can before choosing one.
Midway through series 23, a new round was added to give the contestants more opportunities to increase the jackpot. It is played between the 2d elimination round and the head-to-head, and is similar to the previously retired "Possible Answers" format. Both pairs of contestants are shown a question and vi possible answers. Two of the answers are pointless, two are as well right but score some points, and the other two are incorrect (ofttimes with a tangential and humorous link to the question). Each pair may offer one respond, with no risk of elimination, and all four contestants may confer with ane another, if desired. Any called pointless answers add £250 to the jackpot.
Final [edit]
The last remaining team receives a pair of trophies to continue, regardless of what happens in the last round, and now attempts to win the game'south jackpot. The team chooses i category from a list, whereupon the host reads a serial of questions associated with information technology that have multiple correct answers (e.k. characters in the play King Lear, or films starring Emily Watson). The contestants take threescore seconds to discuss the questions, after which they must jointly give three answers. If any individual response is pointless, the team wins the jackpot; otherwise, information technology is rolled over to the side by side evidence.
Originally, contestants could cull from one of three categories, with unused ones remaining in the list for five days or until they were selected, and had to provide answers to a unmarried question inside the chosen category. This format was used between the commencement and fifth series. The number of available categories was increased to five at the start of the sixth series, and then reduced to four in the ninth. By the beginning of the second half of the ninth series, the round was modified to require the contestants to provide answers to any or all of three questions connected to their called category. They must specify which question they are attempting with each of their 3 responses, and tin can only win the jackpot if a response is pointless for its nominated question.
Pointless Celebrities [edit]
Post-obit the success of Pointless and its transfer to BBC One, the BBC commissioned a celebrity edition of the programme, entitled Pointless Celebrities. Like the main prove, the glory edition featured teams of two celebrities competing against each other to win the jackpot for their chosen charities. While the testify used the same format for rounds, the celebrity edition featured notable differences. Unlike the regular show, the celebrity version was reserved for the weekend and placed in a prime-time evening slot for its circulate. In addition, celebrities can return in more than i episode, with the aforementioned partner or a unlike partner, most episodes normally featured a theme in regards to the celebrity contestants that took part - for example, a celebrity edition aired in Dec 2015 consisted of celebrities who were fabricated famous on reality television shows like Large Blood brother and Made in Chelsea.[9]
Any money won past a squad is dissever every bit between the 2 charities represented by its members. Teams compete for a jackpot of £2,500 for their charity, plus £250 for every pointless reply given before the final round; these values have been doubled for certain special episodes. The jackpot does not curl over if not won, but the programme donates £500 to every team who fails to either reach the final or win the jackpot.
Evolution [edit]
The show's format (originally to be called "Obviously") was conceived past Tom Blakeson, Simon Craig, David Flynn, Nick Mather, Richard Osman and Shaun Parry, producers at Endemol UK, in 2009. They envisaged it as a "contrary Family Fortunes....rewarding obscure knowledge, while allowing people to also give obvious answers....a quiz which could be sort of highbrow and populist simultaneously".[10] Osman was not intended to be co-presenter; originally, he filled the role simply as part of a demonstration laid on for the BBC. However, the BBC executives asked him to proceed when they deputed the commencement series.[x] Osman then approached comedian Alexander Armstrong to exist the main presenter; the two men had been peers during their university days.[ten] Armstrong, who the previous twelvemonth had been lined up to nowadays Channel iv's Countdown only to back out for fearfulness of being pigeonholed as a presenter,[11] agreed to nowadays what was perceived as a lower-profile evidence, with the presence of Osman helping to convince him.[10]
In 2016, Richard Osman told the Belfast Telegraph, "It's never been a bear witness that's had posters, or trailers, and information technology's presented by these two slightly inept guys. Anybody who's ever watched information technology feels like information technology's their programme. We've never inverse information technology, merely have e'er done it in the same way, which is slightly shoddy, enjoying ourselves." On the programme's future, he said, "Every programme has a shelf-life, just every bit long as people are enjoying it, we will stick with it. If Channel 4 wanted to offer three times as much money, we wouldn't have information technology. We would stay with the BBC. We love the BBC. Pointless is not for sale. Nosotros owe the BBC an enormous debt, because they've looked after us."[12]
Transmissions [edit]
Regular editions [edit]
| Series | Start date | End date | Episodes | Notes |
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| one | 24 August 2009 | six October 2009 | xxx | No episodes on 31 August or 10 September 2009 |
| 2 | viii March 2010 | 16 April 2010 | 30 | Serial two had no breaks. |
| iii | thirty August 2010 | 22 Dec 2010 | l | Series 3 took breaks from iv to 14 Oct and 22 November to 21 Dec 2010. Episode 50 was a celebrity special. |
| four | 14 March 2011 | 26 August 2011 | lx | Series 4 took a pause from 18 April to eight July 2011 |
| 5 | 29 August 2011 | 6 February 2012 | 60 | Series 5 took a pause from 17 October 2011 to ii January 2012 |
| six | xiii February 2012 | 24 August 2012 | 70 | Series 6 took breaks on 23 March, from ii to 27 Apr, on 3 May and from 4 June to 10 August 2012 |
| seven | 29 August 2012 | 5 December 2012 | seventy | There was no episode on 16 November 2012 |
| viii | 2 Jan 2013 | 2 April 2013 | 65 | Series 8 had no breaks. |
| 9 | iii April 2013 | 25 September 2013 | 55 | Series 9 took breaks from 29 April to 24 May and 24 June to xxx August 2013. |
| 10 | 26 September 2013 | nineteen March 2014 | lxx | Series 10 took breaks from 7 to 25 Oct, 2 December 2013 to iii January 2014, and three to 21 February 2014 |
| 11 | 20 March 2014 | 29 September 2014 | 55 | Series 11 took breaks from 21 April to 23 May, and 19 June to 5 September 2014 |
| 12 | 28 October 2014 | 25 Feb 2015 | 55 | Series 12 took a interruption from xx November 2014 to 2 January 2015 |
| thirteen | 23 March 2015 | 28 July 2015 | 51 | Series 13 took breaks from xiii Apr to 3 May, 25 May to eleven June, and 25 June to ten July 2015 |
| 14 | 29 July 2015 | 29 February 2016 | 55 | Series xiv took breaks from 3 August to 4 September, 30 September to 23 Oct, 17 November 2015 to 1 January 2016, and 27 January to 26 Feb 2016 |
| 15 | ane March 2016 | xx September 2016 | 55 | Series 15 took breaks from 21 March to 19 Apr and 24 May to 26 Baronial 2016 |
| 16 | 24 October 2016 | 15 March 2017 | 55 | Series 16 took breaks from 21 November to nine Dec, 15 to 28 December 2016 and 24 Jan to 23 February 2017. |
| 17 | xix April 2017 | 29 September 2017 | 55 | Series 17 took a break from vii June to 1 September 2017 |
| eighteen | two Oct 2017 | 12 Feb 2018 | 55 | Serial eighteen took a break from 6 November 2017 to ane January 2018 |
| 19 | 2 April 2018 | 15 June 2018 | 55 | Serial nineteen had no breaks. |
| 20 | 19 June 2018 | 25 January 2019 | 55 | Series 20 took breaks from 20 June to 31 Baronial and xix October to 27 December 2018. There was no episode on 1 January 2019. |
| 21 | 28 Jan 2019 | 29 May 2019 | 55 | Series 21 took a intermission from 13 February to 29 March 2019 |
| 22 | ii September 2019 | 6 April 2020 | 55 | Series 22 took breaks from 16 October 2019 to 1 January 2020 and from 27 January to 27 March 2020 |
| 23 | 7 Apr 2020 | half-dozen October 2020 | 55 | Series 23 took breaks from 20 Apr to 25 June 2020 and from 30 July to 4 September 2020 |
| 24 | seven Oct 2020 | 22 February 2021 | 55 | Series 24 took breaks from 3 November 2020 to 1 January 2021 |
| 25 | 6 April 2021 | 20 July 2021 | 55 | Series 25 took a intermission from fourteen June to 9 July 2021 |
| 26 | 21 July 2021 | 14 March 2022 | 55 | Series 26 took breaks from 26 July to iii September 2021, 28 October 2021 to 3 January 2022 and 20 January 2022 to 11 March 2022 |
| 27 | xv March 2022 | 2022 | 55 |
Glory editions [edit]
| Series | Commencement date | End engagement | Episodes | Notes |
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| 1 | four July 2011 | 8 July 2011 | five | Daily at 5:15 pm |
| ii | 25 Feb 2012 | 16 June 2012 | 8 | On selected dates beyond four months |
| iii | 20 October 2012 | 27 Dec 2012 | ix | Weekly on Saturday evenings at five:40. Episode ix was broadcast on a Thursday due to Christmas schedules |
| Daytime | 10 Dec 2012 | 21 December 2012 | x | Daily at 5:15 pm |
| 4 | sixteen February 2013 | 7 September 2013 | half dozen | On selected dates |
| 5 | fourteen September 2013 | 21 December 2013 | 12 | On Saturdays at selected times |
| half dozen | 28 Dec 2013 | three Jan 2015 | 31 | On Saturdays at selected times. The series took a break midway through. |
| 7 | 11 April 2015 | 26 September 2015 | vii | On Saturdays at selected times |
| 8 | 29 August 2015 | xxx January 2016 | 17 | On Saturdays at selected times |
| ix | nine January 2016 | 3 September 2016 | viii | On Saturdays at selected times |
| 10 | xiv May 2016 | 31 March 2018 | 45 | On Saturdays at selected times |
| 11 | 23 December 2017 | 1 June 2019 | 39 | On Saturdays at selected times |
| 12 | 31 Baronial 2019 | 14 March 2020 | 23 | On Saturdays at selected times |
| xiii | 25 April 2020 | 24 April 2021 | 30 | On Saturdays at selected times |
| 14 | 23 December 2020 | sixteen April 2022 | TBA | |
| fifteen | two April 2022 | Wintertime 2023 | TBA |
Specials [edit]
| Date | Title |
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| half dozen June 2013 | 500th Episode |
| xvi January 2017 | one,000th Episode |
| 23 March 2019 | "The Practiced, the Bad and the Bloopers" |
The first series aired on BBC Two betwixt Baronial and October 2009, with the corporation announcing on the day of the concluding episode's broadcast that it had commissioned a second series. The serial' audience had peaked at 1.69 million viewers, 17.ii% of audience share for the timeslot,[6] while averaging around 1 one thousand thousand viewers per episode.[10] The second series saw audiences abound modestly; the format was tweaked prior to the start of series three, reducing the number of rounds and giving more time for banter between the hosts which had previously been edited out.[10] The change saw strong viewer growth, and the bear witness was moved to the BBC'south principal channel BBC One in 2011.[10] [13] By 2013, the programme records four episodes in one day,[14] and averaged iii.6 million viewers daily, gaining more viewers than ITV game show The Chase, which airs in roughly the same fourth dimension slot.[13]
In Feb 2014, Pointless was extended for some other 204 episodes, giving 3 more series, taking the full deputed to 13 in February 2014. A further 24 celebrity episodes were also ordered.[xv] For the 1,000th episode, which aired on 16 Jan 2017, Armstrong and Osman traded host and assistant duties, and four previous couples who had distinguished themselves in diverse ways were invited to compete again. The jackpot for this episode began at £2,500 (the usual starting value for Pointless Celebrities), and every pointless reply during the main game added £ane,000 to it. On 23 February 2016, it was announced that the show had been recommissioned by the BBC to make 165 more regular daytime editions along with 45 prime-time celebrity specials, taking Pointless to the end of 2017.[16] [17] On iv September 2017, it was announced that the BBC had deputed a farther 204 episodes, including 165 regular and 39 glory specials.[18]
With the start of the 11th series of Pointless Celebrities on 23 December 2017, the show's set design was changed, with some new graphics, and an updated intro replaced the one used since the evidence'south debut. This extended to the 19th series of Pointless, which started on 2 April 2018.
International broadcast [edit]
In Australia, Pointless has aired on both BBC UKTV (series ten and xi) and ABC (series 9–11, as of April 2017).[19] [xx] As of the 19 July 2021 it is aired on the Ix Network at 2pm weekdays.
Awards and nominations [edit]
| Yr | Award | Category | Result |
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| 2012 | National Tv set Awards | Comedy Panel Show | Longlisted |
| TV Choice Awards | Best Daytime Bear witness | Nominated[21] | |
| 2013 | National Idiot box Awards | Virtually Popular Daytime Programme[ commendation needed ] | Longlisted |
| 2014 | Nominated | ||
| 2015 | Nominated | ||
| The Television and Radio Industries Club Awards | Daytime Programme | Won[22] | |
| 2016 | National Television Awards | Almost Pop Daytime Programme | Nominated[23] |
Kelvin MacKenzie controversy [edit]
Following a news-themed edition of Pointless Celebrities which aired on 27 October 2014, several fans criticised the presence of old The Sunday editor Kelvin MacKenzie, who was responsible for the paper's infamous forepart-page report concerning the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. Osman responded to this criticism with at to the lowest degree twenty comments on Twitter, stating that he had not known MacKenzie would appear until "about an hour before" recording, and that he had "strongly argued against information technology".[24] [25] [26]
International versions [edit]
Legend: Currently airing as of February 2021[27] No longer airing
| Country | Local title | Channel | Presenter | Assistant | Premiere date | Cease date |
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 Australia | Pointless [28] | Network Ten | Mark Humphries | Andrew Rochford | 23 July 2018 | 10 May 2019 |
 Czechia | Míň je víc! (Less Is More than!) | ČT1 | January Smetana | North/A | 5 January 2015 | 17 December 2015 |
 Croatia | Tog se nitko nije sjetio (No one thought of that) | RTL | Antonija Blaće | Krešimir Sučević-Međeral | 29 April 2013 | 7 June 2013 |
 Kingdom of denmark | Jo færre, jo bedre (The fewer, the amend) | TV2 | Steen Langeberg | Marie Tangaa | 6 Jan 2019 | |
 France | Personne n'y avait pensé ! (No ane had idea of it!) | French republic 3 | Cyril Féraud | N/A | 16 July 2011 | 22 Jan 2021 |
 Deutschland | Null gewinnt [29] (Zero wins) | Das Erste | Dieter Nuhr | Ralph Caspers | 20 July 2012 | 1 March 2013 |
 Italy | Zippo e lode! [30] (Zero cum laude!) | Rai 1 | Alessandro Greco | Francesco Lancia | 11 September 2017 | i June 2018 |
 Netherlands | Pointless [31] | NPO one | Lucille Werner | Owen Schumacher | 27 July 2015 | 28 Baronial 2015 |
 North Macedonia | Без Поени! Bez Poeni! [32] (No Points!) | Sitel | Snezana Velkov | Northward/A | 1 November 2014 | 7 March 2015 |
 Poland | Tylko Ty [33] [34] (But you) | TVP2 | Tomasz Kammel | Radosław Kotarski | 27 February 2014 | 30 May 2014 |
 Serbia | Toga se niko nije setio [35] (No ane thought of that) | Prva | Tamara Grujić | Dragan Ilić | 5 Apr 2014 | eleven May 2014 |
 Switzerland | Weniger ist mehr [36] (Less is more than) | SRF1 | Patrick Hässig | North/A | 20 August 2012 | September 2014 |
An American version was ready to be developed by GSN in 2017.[37] A airplane pilot episode presented by Alison Sweeney was produced and never aired.[38]
Merchandise [edit]
App Games [edit]
On 26 February 2014, Endemol's in-firm App-publishing partition released the official Pointless app, Pointless Quiz, was released for iOS,[39] with an iPad, Android and an Amazon version released a few months later.
In Oct 2018, Vocala released an Amazon Alexa Skill based on the bear witness.[40]
Books [edit]
The Pointless app features animated versions of Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman, and allows the histrion to tackle questions in a similar format to the Television receiver evidence. 5 books take been released of the show: The 100 About Pointless Things in the Globe, The 100 Most Pointless Arguments in the World, The Very Pointless Quiz Volume (not to be mistaken for The Pointless Book), The A-Z of Pointless: A brain-teasing bumper book of questions and trivia and "A Pointless History of the World". All five were released by Coronet. In the books, Armstrong and Osman give their insight to pointless matters.
Board Games [edit]
Three editions of the official board game have also been released, plus 2 mini-sized versions, each of which contains updated questions. All of them were published by University Games.
In popular culture [edit]
Pointless appeared in the BBC sitcom Not Going Out (serial 7, episode 5); Armstrong and Osman both played themselves.[41] Pointless was too parodied in several sketches of the satirical evidence Newzoids, in which a caricature of Osman interrupts people in regular situations with phrases used in the game show.
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External links [edit]
- Pointless at BBC Online
- Pointless Celebrities
- Pointless at UKGameshows.com
- Pointless at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointless
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