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Pointless is a British television quiz show produced by Banijay subsidiary Remarkable Entertainment for the BBC hosted by Alexander Armstrong.
- Sally Lindsay
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- Stephen Mangan
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- Alexander Armstrong
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- Pointless (game show)
Pointless is a British quiz show on BBC One. Who gets the...
- Sally Lindsay
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- Pointless Celebrities
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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 onlin...
Following 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 show, the celebrity edition featured teams of two celebrities competing against each other to win the jackpot for their chosen charities. While the show used the same format for rou...
The show's format (originally to be called "Obviously") was conceived by Tom Blakeson, Simon Craig, David Flynn, Nick Mather, Richard Osman and Shaun Parry, producers at Endemol UK, in 2009. They envisaged it as a "reverse Family Fortunes....rewarding obscure knowledge, while allowing people to also give obvious answers....a quiz which could be sor...
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Pointless: With Alexander Armstrong, Richard Osman, Stephen Mangan, Konnie Huq. A game show where contestants aim to score the fewest points possible by guessing the least popular answers given by people in polls on various subjects.
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A game show broadcast on BBC One (with reruns on Challenge), hosted by Alexander Armstrong (of The Armstrong and Miller Show), with Richard Osman as his assistant. It has been broadcast since 24 August 2009, making it a Long Runner.
Synopsis. Cross the surveys of Family Fortunes with the inverse scoring of Beat the Nation and you get... well, you get Topranko!, more or less. Or, if you're the BBC and pitching for the daytime audience, you get this. If it was us, we probably wouldn't tempt fate (and TV critics) by calling it Pointless, though. A wide view of the Pointless set.
Pointless was an unsold pilot for GSN based on the successful UK series. Like Dirty Rotten Cheater, it was essentially a reverse Family Feud, the idea is to choose obscure answers to questions posed to a polling group.
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Pointless is a British quiz show on BBC One. Who gets the answer that was the said the least gains the point. The team with the highest number of points loses. It is presented by Alexander Armstrong and Sally Lindsay. It now has 10 series and many episodes. In each game there are four teams of two.
