Pointless
Pointless is a British television quiz show produced by Banijay UK Productions subsidiary Remarkable Entertainment for the BBC and hosted by Alexander Armstrong. In each episode, four teams of two contestants attempt to find correct but obscure answers to four rounds of general knowledge questions, with the winning team eligible to compete for the show's cash jackpot.
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★ 6.4Quiz in which contestants try to score as few points as possible by plumbing the depths of their general knowledge to come up with the answers no-one else can think of.
- Aired
- 2009–2026
- Seasons
- 35 · 1878 episodes
- Status
- Returning Series
- Network
- BBC One, BBC Two
- Genres
- Reality
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26 sectionsContents
- Development
- Gameplay
- Elimination Rounds
- Head-to-Head
- Final
- ''Pointless Celebrities''
- Kelvin MacKenzie controversy
- Transmissions
- Regular
- Co-hosts
- Celebrity
- Pointless Celebrities: Daytime
- Specials
- Broadcast and ratings
- International broadcast
- Awards and nominations
- International versions
- Merchandise
- App games
- Books
- Board games
- In popular culture
- Notes and references
- Notes
- References
- External links
Pointless is a British television quiz show produced by Banijay UK Productions subsidiary Remarkable Entertainment for the BBC and hosted by Alexander Armstrong. In each episode, four teams of two contestants attempt to find correct but obscure answers to four rounds of general knowledge questions, with the winning team eligible to compete for the show's cash jackpot.
Pointless debuted on BBC Two on 24 August 2009. The success of the first three series led the BBC to move it to BBC One from 2011. , the programme is airing Series 33 and has had peak audience figures of over 7 million viewers. An offshoot of the show entitled Pointless Celebrities was first shown in 2011 and had reached Series 15. The format has been exported internationally.