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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Quiz 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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Duration: 50
Official website: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rhg2r

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number of seasons: 34
number of episodes: 1810
start time: 2009-08-24

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Contents

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 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.