Pointless is the best entertainment show out there

mitosis · 29-01-2013 2:37pm

The format is great.

But

The prize money is pathetic

I don't trust the numbers of correct respondants. There is no way to verify it's not all just a fix - which is my belief.

Too many final rounds are about cinema

Mr.Prodston · 29-01-2013 2:47pm

mitosis wrote: »

The format is great.

But

The prize money is pathetic

I don't trust the numbers of correct respondants. There is no way to verify it's not all just a fix - which is my belief.

Too many final rounds are about cinema

It's a daytime quiz show in which the bbc also has Perfection and Eggheads contributing £1000, Perfection is actually £2000 per show. When it builds like it did to £20,250 that's quite a jackpot.

I don't think it's an even spread a lot of the time, normally after a question or two you can tell whether it's an older/younger 100 depending on how the scores fall. Like sometimes a song from 2008 is 4 whereas some other song from 1978 could be 40 and vice versa

Also it's up to the contestants to pick the final question and a choice between acid jazz and actresses will be a pretty straightforward one.

mitosis · 29-01-2013 2:53pm

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Also it's up to the contestants to pick the final question and a choice between acid jazz and actresses will be a pretty straightforward one.

That's kind of my point. Offered are "obscure locations in Oman" or "James Bond". Hobson's choice, if you will.

Mr.Prodston · 29-01-2013 2:57pm

mitosis wrote: »

That's kind of my point. Offered are "obscure locations in Oman" or "James Bond". Hobson's choice, if you will.

Although I reckon the obscure sounding question would actually be quite easy compared to the simple sounding one unless you really were a buff. Unless Geography or Football/rugby/golf or Will Ferrell came up I'd love a crack at something like funky music. Like the Steve Carrell question only had

3

pointless answers. I would have thought I'd be fairly well up on his movies too.

I guess it's all just the luck of the draw really.

muckisluck · 29-01-2013 6:41pm

S.M.B. wrote: »

But who are the sample 100 people? It has to be somewhat biased.

According to Richard they are all surveyed anonymously online, a cross section of ages and geographical areas.

muckisluck · 29-01-2013 6:45pm

S.M.B. wrote: »

Might enter then!

When applications are open you'll find a link on bbc.co.uk/beonashow.
Good luck and please pm me to watch if you make it. i wouldn't be brave enough although I'd love to be in the audience even if they do all appear to have come on tour from the local old folks home:D

Fighting Irish · 29-01-2013 6:47pm

ifl

S.M.B. · 29-01-2013 11:57pm

muckisluck wrote: »

When applications are open you'll find a link on bbc.co.uk/beonashow.
Good luck and please pm me to watch if you make it. i wouldn't be brave enough although I'd love to be in the audience even if they do all appear to have come on tour from the local old folks home:D

Had 2 pointless answers to the jackpot question today which was a first!

Maybe that's a sign.

It's also open for applications at the moment.

Surely that's a definite sign.

sock puppet · 09-02-2013 1:19am

dooferoaks wrote: »

Good luck, hope you get on! Always that bit more difficult for people who weren't brought up in the UK as the more trivial questions about old kids shows, or old politicians etc make it harder.

Though given that today's last 6 contestants could barely name a 19th century British prime minister between them, it might not be that much harder on the politics front...

Skid X · 22-03-2013 4:30pm

Nice article in the Guardian today about the success of Pointless

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2013/mar/22/pointless-daytime-game-show-league-own

Also, Pointless is getting excellent ratings recently, so its future looks good.

http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/news/a457702/pointless-overtakes-the-chase-in-teatime-ratings.html

I think it still going well after hundreds of shows, still one of my favourite programmes.

Mental Mickey · 22-03-2013 4:33pm

Eggheads is better.

imo

brian_t · 22-03-2013 5:24pm

It gets repeated regularly on Challenge TV

The only thing I didn't like about it was the season when at start of each episode Richard used to try to guess which couple would win.
I thought it was a bit unfair to the others

K-9 · 23-03-2013 8:53am

Doctor Who celebrity special on this evening.

Degag · 04-04-2013 11:20pm

Funny moment in yesterdays show when Richard asked Alexander if he had an answer for a word ending in "ind"

Alexander answered "friend"

brian_t · 04-04-2013 11:37pm

Degag wrote: »

Funny moment in yesterdays show when Richard asked Alexander if he had an answer for a word ending in "ind"

Alexander answered "friend"

muckisluck · 05-04-2013 8:47am

That clip shows all that is great about this show. For anyone who puts this on sky plus and skips the link pieces you're really missing the best bits!

Dozen Wicked Words · 05-04-2013 5:57pm

They seem to have such "nice" contestants on there too. Being a miserable git, on other quizzes I am often happy when people don't win the prize, but its fairly rare that I don't want a contestant on pointless to win. A great cross section of people. The only things that bug me about pointless these days are the anagram rounds and the missing letters rounds, not a fan.

Degag · 05-04-2013 7:34pm

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

They seem to have such "nice" contestants on there too. Being a miserable git, on other quizzes I am often happy when people don't win the prize, but its fairly rare that I don't want a contestant on pointless to win. A great cross section of people. The only things that bug me about pointless these days are the anagram rounds and the missing letters rounds, not a fan.

Yeah, i'm terrible at them.

muckisluck · 05-04-2013 8:05pm

I feel the same generally. i say Respect to anyone who gets to have a go at the jackpot but I would have hated to see that taxi driver from Leeds this week win! I took great pleasure in seeing him go out because he treated his partner with such contempt!

lertsnim · 05-04-2013 8:08pm

I lol'd when that ex teacher gave Alexander a tip on how to spell friend. Classic Pointless

Lingua Franca · 05-04-2013 8:12pm

Richard's on HIGNFY right now.

phonypony · 05-04-2013 8:22pm

Lingua Franca wrote: »

Richard's on HIGNFY right now.

And very funny he is too!

mike65 · 05-04-2013 10:08pm

Very droll, he'll have his own chat show before you know it. A sort of Clive Anderson Talks Back for the 21st century.

Lingua Franca · 05-04-2013 10:47pm

Yeah, I think we are witnessing the beginning of a wonderful career. A very droll, very clever, very English fecker in the mould of Stephen Fry (yes I know you hate Stephen Fry no need to post and remind me) or John Peel (yes I know paedo) or Morrissey (yes I know sanctimonious vegetarian but I mean before he became a racist too).

I expect great things from him, I mean to say.

NegativeCreep · 06-04-2013 12:39am

It's hardly the start of a career. He's been around for years.

There's usually a good few people who I hate on the show! The people who talk too much about themselves, the people who say "this is a complete guess" even when you know full well that they knew the answer all along and the people who try to be funny and fail miserably every time! Love Richard and Alexander though.

Lingua Franca · 06-04-2013 12:44am

NegativeCreep wrote: »

It's hardly the start of a career. He's been around for years.

Apart from the recent episodes of HIGNFY, what else has he been on?

There's usually a good few people who I hate on the show! The people who talk too much about themselves, the people who say "this is a complete guess" even when you know full well that they knew the answer all along and the people who try to be funny and fail miserably every time! Love Richard and Alexander though.

That and the phrase "I think I'm going to say..." You're either going to say it or you're not.

NegativeCreep · 06-04-2013 12:46am

Lingua Franca wrote: »

Apart from the recent episodes of HIGNFY, what else has he been on?

That and the phrase "I think I'm going to say..." You're either going to say it or you're not.

I think he was in the fast show years ago but im second guessing myself now :P the Armstrong and miller show too.

Degag · 06-04-2013 2:22am

My Bad, whats HIGNFY?

Think Richard would be very good on Qi!

Degag · 06-04-2013 2:24am

Degag wrote: »

My Bad, whats HIGNFY?

Think Richard would be very good on Qi!

Forget it... figured it out:o

Skid X · 06-04-2013 2:25am

Degag wrote: »

My Bad, whats HIGNFY?

Think Richard would be very good on Qi!

Have I Got News For You.

And I agree, let's get Richard on QI - He would be brilliant on it!!

Toto Wolfcastle · 06-04-2013 8:31am

NegativeCreep wrote: »

It's hardly the start of a career. He's been around for years.

There's usually a good few people who I hate on the show! The people who talk too much about themselves, the people who say "this is a complete guess" even when you know full well that they knew the answer all along and the people who try to be funny and fail miserably every time! Love Richard and Alexander though.

That particularly annoys me when you can tell they think the subject is beneath them and they decide to pretend they no nothing about it. Sometimes you'd nearly get the impression that they'd rather lose than admit to knowing anything about the more trivial topics.

Roger_007 · 06-04-2013 9:02am

Skid X wrote: »

Have I Got News For You.

And I agree, let's get Richard on QI - He would be brilliant on it!!

He was on a team on Only Connect (BBC4), last year. He didn't do all that well .

lertsnim · 06-04-2013 9:55am

Richard Osman is mainly a producer I thought and his on screen job on Pointless came about accidentally?

muckisluck · 06-04-2013 10:19am

NegativeCreep wrote: »

There's usually a good few people who I hate on the show! The people who talk too much about themselves, the people who say "this is a complete guess" even when you know full well that they knew the answer all along and the people who try to be funny and fail miserably every time! Love Richard and Alexander though.

or those who say "I'm going to take a punt....." You're absolutely right. On mature reflection I think I don't like a lot of them too!

Degag · 06-04-2013 10:40am

lertsnim wrote: »

Richard Osman is mainly a producer I thought and his on screen job on Pointless came about accidentally?

Yeah, I think he pitched the idea to the BBC and he was just sitting in for the screen test or something and the rest is history!

lertsnim · 06-04-2013 11:39am

Degag wrote: »

Yeah, I think he pitched the idea to the BBC and he was just sitting in for the screen test or something and the rest is history!

Thought it was something like that. He works on 8 out of 10 cats in an off screen capacity too I was told before

gubbie · 06-04-2013 2:18pm

Lingua Franca wrote: »

Apart from the recent episodes of HIGNFY, what else has he been on?

He played a police officer in the Woody Allen film Scoop!

EDIT: Sorry for the size... I'll look for a smaller one!

Lingua Franca · 06-04-2013 2:28pm

That's Alexander Armstrong, not Richard Osman.

Skid X · 06-04-2013 2:57pm

lertsnim wrote: »

Thought it was something like that. He works on 8 out of 10 cats in an off screen capacity too I was told before

lertsnim wrote: »

Richard Osman is mainly a producer I thought and his on screen job on Pointless came about accidentally?

That's right, he is a Producer on 8 Out of 10 Cats and he works for Endemol developing new shows.

Here is an article he wrote a few years ago about how he ended up on Pointless

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/07/pointless-celebrities-richard-osman.shtml

And I think I posted this before, but this article reveals what he does in his main job, and how it doesn't always go right.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/oct/26/uk-tv-worst-ever-gameshows

Go Harvey Go · 06-04-2013 8:57pm

Skid X wrote: »

Here is an article he wrote a few years ago about how he ended up on Pointless

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/07/pointless-celebrities-richard-osman.shtml

"We're not the Weakest Link... hello."

Brilliant!

For those who don't already know, Pointless was filmed at studio TC6 of BBC Television Centre before moving to Elstree in February - and here is a picture that Richard tweeted of himself and Xander bidding farewell to the studio, which as you can see was also home to quite a lot of classic BBC TV shows:

The relocation hasn't meant any immediate changes to the format, though - so the proposed new endgame won't make it to our screens for a while yet.

Speaking of the endgame, Funky Music appears to be joining Katie Price and Spanish Pop among the categories that no-one will pick...

quickbeam · 06-04-2013 9:08pm

^^ Spanish Pop was picked. A team won the jackpot on it I believe. It was to name singles by Enrique or Julio Iglesias.

Acid Jazz seems to be a popular final subject too recently.

muckisluck · 06-04-2013 9:17pm

I wouldn't mind a pop at Irish dramatists either. Noone too keen to pick it.

Skid X · 06-04-2013 11:07pm

quickbeam wrote: »

^^ Spanish Pop was picked. A team won the jackpot on it I believe. It was to name singles by Enrique or Julio Iglesias.

Acid Jazz seems to be a popular final subject too recently.

That's right. I think they eventually renamed it as 'European Pop' but everyone knew it was the fabled Spanish Pop question under a new name, more likely to be picked.

lertsnim · 07-04-2013 11:36am

I still wait for Katie Price to be picked. I am convinced that whoever picks it will get an easy question and win the money

Lingua Franca · 07-04-2013 12:04pm

She's had a whole bunch of books ghostwritten in her name, which puts her in the unique position of having written more books than she's read. My money is on the Katie Price question being "Name books written by Katie Price" and her children's books will have pointless answers.

Cienciano · 07-04-2013 12:14pm

Degag wrote: »

Funny moment in yesterdays show when Richard asked Alexander if he had an answer for a word ending in "ind"

Alexander answered "friend"

Best "words ending in" round was "words ending in ank"

Degag · 07-04-2013 8:20pm

Cienciano wrote: »

Best "words ending in" round was "words ending in ank"

Remember that. Richard made a point of saying that they wouldn't accept any vulgar words. I remember thinking "what vulgar words are they speaking of? Surely skank wasn't considered vulgar." Took me a good ten minutes to figure it out:o

Cienciano · 16-04-2013 4:05pm

Irish winners on it a couple of days ago, woo hoo!

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Roger_007 · 16-04-2013 6:35pm

Irish couple were brilliant but unfortunately only won £2000. Best character on the show recently was a tiny asian guy called Kwok. He laughed his way through the whole thing but got to the head-to-head twice. His co-competitor was about 18 ins taller than him. They were like a comedy duo. Great entertainment value.

Skid X · 16-04-2013 7:05pm

Richard will be a guest on '8 out 10 Cats does Countdown' on Friday on Channel 4 at 9pm

Jimmy Carr hosts the long-running quiz as Jon Richardson is joined by Stephen Mangan to take on Lee Mack and Richard Osman. Henning Wehn is in Dictionary Corner with Countdown regular Susie Dent, and Rachel Riley provides the letters and numbers with a little help from comedian Joe Wilkinson

Pointless is the best entertainment show out there

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