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• 2009

• Game show
• Entertainment

Summary

The aim of the contestants taking part in this quiz is to suggest correct answers to the questions that the least, or even none, of a 100 people selected before the show could think of.

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7.2/10

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Cast

rolenameCo-presenterRichard Osman

Crew

rolenamePresenterAlexander ArmstrongCo presenterVick HopeCo presenterSally PhillipsCo presenterAndi OliverCo presenterNish KumarDirectorRichard van't Riet

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News & features about Pointless

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  Who are the Pointless guest hosts?
  
  The game show returns with a rotating line-up of presenters.

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  BBC reschedules Pointless for news special as general election announced
  
  A BBC News special has replaced Pointless this evening.

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  Why isn't Richard Osman on Pointless?
  
  The comedian will no longer appear on Pointless – but why has he left the show?

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  Locke and Key's final season is frustrating – and largely pointless
  
  The final episodes will have you yelling at the TV – and not in a good way. **WARNING: Contains spoilers for Locke and Key season 3**

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  Stephen Mangan, Konnie Huq and more replace Richard Osman on Pointless
  
  A rotating line-up of celebrities will be filling in for Richard Osman after the presenter left the show earlier this year.

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  Richard Osman steps down as Pointless host – guest presenters take over
  
  The comedian and presenter is stepping back from the daytime quiz after 26 seasons.

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  Who's on Pointless Celebrities this week?
  
  Meet the stars taking to the Pointless podiums this week.

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  Home Sweet Home Alone review: Pointless reboot is dismally unfunny
  
  The latest film in the festive franchise wastes its talented comedy cast.

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  Pointless ratings depend on who's leading daily coronavirus briefing, says Richard Osman
  
  The Pointless quiz master told Radio Times that the programme is "in trouble" when the Chancellor of the Exchequer is presenting the Cabinet's daily briefing.

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  Pointless star Richard Osman says Steven Spielberg is making a film of his Thursday Murder Club novel
  
  The quiz show host has scored an extraordinary coup with his debut novel.

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  Why is Pointless Celebrities not on TV tonight?
  
  Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman are sadly missing from the schedules this Saturday – here's when the BBC1 show will be back on TV

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  Who are the stars on tonight's Pointless Celebrities?
  
  Meet the contestants competing in this weeks kids' TV presenter special

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  You have to watch this hilarious Pointless blooper reel
  
  Richard Osman says "f**king up" and we still can't handle it

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  Richard Osman reveals the secrets of Pointless
  
  Ever wondered how the quiz show is filmed? What the biggest jackpot was and the funniest wrong answer? Osman reveals all…

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  Pointless fans, rejoice! BBC quiz recommissioned for 204 more episodes
  
  Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman will return for a mix of daytime and celebrity versions of the game

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  Richard Osman: why Pointless will never leave the BBC
  
  The quiz show co-host explains that the BBC series won’t go the same way as Bake Off or The Voice UK

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  Stunned Alexander Armstrong was a Pointless answer in last night’s episode
  
  In case you weren’t aware, he has a music career on the side

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  Unspeakable bravely tackled the fear of domestic sexual abuse – but was it all a bit pointless in the end?
  
  Channel 4’s one-off drama effectively showed how one text message can turn your whole world upside down but, given the subject matter, the ending fell a bit flat

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  Will.i.am says winning a talent show like The Voice is "pointless"
  
  The Voice star says the success that fellow coach Jennifer Hudson has enjoyed proves that coming first means nothing

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  Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman on how Pointless got to 1,000 shows
  
  The co-presenters talk about their budding bromance and swapping places for the millennial episode

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  Pointless fans were seriously freaked out by the show's 1,000th episode
  
  “They're the wrong way round I'm uncomfortable”

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  Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman will swap places to mark 1000 episodes of Pointless
  
  Finally Alexander Armstrong will learn what it feels like to be labelled ‘my pointless friend’

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  Richard Osman on why rubbish TV isn't completely pointless
  
  The new Child Genius quizmaster talks yoga balls and the merits of a varied TV diet

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  "Oh. He's called Clint!" This contestant's name badge on Pointless had everyone confused
  
  You would think the label-making team might want to make a new "CLINT" badge

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