Who is in pointless tv programme

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Performance Performance. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors. Around this time, Xander stopped giving each question in clue rounds twice. There was some rather paranoid censorship in the third series - the film titles Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Inglourious Basterds both incorrect answers to their respective questions suffered post-production bleeps.

You wouldn't get that happening on The Weakest Link. When Inglourious Basterds was offered as an answer to "Quentin Tarantino Films" in series 8 correctly this time , the contestant had to whisper the second word in Xander's ear. Shouldn't it have been Richard's ear? A contestant asked if she could answer with 'Alexander Armstrong'. A momentarily flattered and flustered Xander checked that they definitely wanted to do that, which they did. The result was a look of genuine surprise and joy on his face upon finding out that he himself was a Pointless answer, having released the 32nd biggest selling record of the year!

Some of Richard's rules explanations are given so frequently that we expect the audience to shout out the last words with him. No TV films, short films or documentaries - but voice credits do count". Alexander also has various stock phrases to introduce the show, of which arguably the best is "Welcome to Pointless - the show where the lowest scorers are the biggest winners.

This one was only a made-up joke catchphrase for a week or so, but it gets callbacks every now and again. During the programme's run, "Central African Republic" has proven to be the most pointless country in the world. In the first series it appeared as a pointless answer to four separate questions: "Countries beginning with C", "African countries", "French-speaking countries" and "national flags with stars on". And just to rub it in, its capital Bangui was a pointless answer to "Capital cities beginning with B".

In the third celebrity special in appeared as a pointless answer to "Countries with five or more borders" while it was also a pointless answer to "Flags with the colour green on them" and "Countries that have had a female leader" i. One sharp correspondent noted a bit of a gaffe, or at least an inconsistency, during a round on "Tudor and Stuart Monarchs of Great Britain".

Mary, Queen of Scots was ruled to be an incorrect answer, because she was only queen of Scotland "the clue is in the name," said Richard. However, monarchs of England before the union of the crowns were allowed, so strictly speaking, she should have counted as well along with a number of other pre-union Scottish monarchs. All of which leads us to ponder how well contestants would fare if faced with the topic of pre-union Scottish monarchs.

There's only one way to find out On 3 September , contestants David and Susan received the unenviable honour of being the first contestants in Pointless history to receive points, but not as a result of giving an incorrect answer. Given a list of possible answers, the contestants had to answer with what type of food they thought each one was. Contestant David answered that Parmesan was a type of cheese and was perfectly correct, however unfortunately for him and his wife Susan, all of the people surveyed also knew it was a type of cheese, meaning they scored points, despite answering correctly.

However, thanks to a strong performance from Susan, the couple still managed to win both the round and the show - though not the jackpot. Rather bizarrely, a seemingly even more obvious answer, namely plaice being a type of fish, scored a comparatively modest To date, two other point answers have been given. Oh, and the answer was "London", as if you didn't know. She and her dad survived the round, but didn't win the show. The other was given by Antony Worrall Thompson on a chefs edition of Pointless Celebrities broadcast 31 August , when all people knew the foodstuff omitted from the film title [blank], I Shrunk The Kids.

Xander was amazed by this and claimed he'd never seen it happen before - given that the copyright date on the end of the show was , it's just possible that the episode was recorded before MJ's, but you'd think he might recall the previous occasion. On the first pass in the same round, Worrall Thompson's team mate Rustie Lee correctly stated that 'Peach' was the missing word in James and the Giant [blank]. However this scored 89 points, giving the pair a total score of , the highest score ever recorded on the programme, without giving an incorrect answer.

On 21 July , the first round subject was "U2 Singles" and amazingly all of the first four contestants gave incorrect answers, resulting in the row of s seen below. Surprisingly and to the relief of all concerned , the return pass went off without a hitch. For the record, none of these are U2 singles: "Red Red Wine" the contestant admitted she always got U2 and UB40 confused , "Hello Hello" the player was thinking of "Vertigo", which her partner gave on the second pass , "Goodbye" which was a flat-out guess and "The Joshua Tree" a U2 album, not a single.

Episode guide. See more at IMDbPro. Episodes Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Photos Top cast Edit. Matthew Grocott Contestant as Contestant. Alex Mitsiaras Contestant as Contestant. Shaun Williamson Self as Self. More like this. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. To start, the team is given a choice of categories. After they choose one, they are given the question, and have one minute to give three answers. If any of them are pointless, they win the jackpot.

There have been two formats for this round. In the first nine series, there were three categories to choose from, and they stayed either for five shows or until they were picked. From the sixth series, there were five categories to choose from and any that weren't chosen returned at irregular intervals, instead of consecutive shows. In either case, the team then had to give any three answers from that category, and if any of them were pointless, they won the jackpot. On 7 June , a new format was introduced and it is still being used today.

In this format, the team is given four categories to choose from and are given three subcategories in their chosen category. They then have to find a pointless answer by picking three answers from any or all of them; however, they are also required to state which subcategory each answer belongs to, and it must be pointless within the nominated subcategory in order to win the jackpot.