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Pointless is the best entertainment show out there

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    #1532
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,258 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Skid X wrote: »
    Aw, Dino Zoff scored 3

    Oldest player to win a World Cup
    Only Goalkeeper to captain a winning team

    A good name to remember for quizzes.

    Apart from Iker Casillas of course


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    #1533
    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Did Casillas not captain Spain?
    castletownman wrote: »
    Apart from Iker Casillas of course

    Ah well, all my trivia was learnt in the 80s :o


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    #1534
    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-10-07/armstrong--osman-we-would-love-to-do-a-childrens-pointless-but-were-not-allowed
    Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman long to make a children's version of their hugely successful quiz show Pointless but the BBC have vetoed the idea. “I think it would be absolutely brilliant but we are not allowed to do it,” explained Osman, speaking at a Radio Times event at Cheltenham Literature Festival yesterday. “We ask all the time. There are all sorts of BBC guidelines that say you're not allowed to give money to children, you're not allowed to put children under pressure, and things like that. They won't let us do it.”

    They've tried circumventing the guidelines by suggesting prize money is awarded to schools instead - to no avail. “We have honestly suggested everything. I would love to do it because so many kids watch it and kids are so brilliant at quizzes. It would be perfect. I would adore it to do it but we're not allowed.”

    Awww - I would love to see Pointless Children. It would be brilliant. The interview also tells you which Pointless Celebrities were caught cheating, well worth a read.


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    #1535
    Skid X
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    ha, I just read to the end ...
    In fact, it's continued to be hugely successful both at home and abroad: the format been sold to 400 countries and another 204 episodes have been ordered by the BBC.

    If, by country, they mean a sovereign state that is a member of the UN, I think they might have exaggerated that total.


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    #1536
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Skid X wrote: »
    http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-10-07/armstrong--osman-we-would-love-to-do-a-childrens-pointless-but-were-not-allowed



    Awww - I would love to see Pointless Children. It would be brilliant. The interview also tells you which Pointless Celebrities were caught cheating, well worth a read.

    Pointless Children would be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than "celebrities". Xander would be even more awkward than normal but you just know both of them would do such a fantastic job letting the kids shine.

    Boo-urns BBC!


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    #1537
    Eeden
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    I was lucky to have accidentally recorded today's show, since I hadn't deleted the series link to series 6. I had to hunt around for it, though. Why are they so random about repeats? This has happened to me before (I think they randomly went back to series 5 in the middle of series 9).

    According to the BBC guide

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rhg2r/broadcasts/upcoming

    it's going to be series 6 for the next while, though even these are not completely continuous, as for some reason two episodes are being skipped.


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    #1538
    Addle
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    Maybe they're not repeating episodes like the one that refers to Rolf Harris.


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    #1539
    brian_t
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    Eeden wrote: »
    it's going to be series 6 for the next while, .

    There will be 3 weeks of repeats.


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    #1540
    IvySlayer
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    How is Junior Mastermind allowed then?

    Pointless Celebrities are usually full of people I've never heard of who won't shut up :P


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    #1541
    IvySlayer
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    Eggheads should appear on an episode, plus Stephen Fry


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    #1542
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    How is Junior Mastermind allowed then?

    And they do Junior Masterchef and what have you. Plus there's a load of kid specific game shows on CBBC. Obviously they'd change the format and make the questions easier.... I can't see why they won't allow it.


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    #1543
    Fred Swanson
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    #1544
    MurdyWurdy
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    They both have kids as well so it's not like they're inexperienced with children


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    #1545
    efb
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    Are we in?


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    #1546
    Wise Old Elf
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    Present (for now anyway).


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    #1547
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    What are these contestants like?


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    #1548
    Wise Old Elf
    Moderators Posts: 3,554 ✭✭✭Wise Old Elf


    Disco Stuart wrote: »
    Present (for now anyway).

    Nevermind, kids home. Not gonna happen for me today!


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    #1549
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I dislike Chris and Paul the least


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    #1550
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Warsaw

    Istanbul

    Brussels


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    #1551
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Don't like these gobby Aussies. I'm rooting for the Scots.


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    #1552
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    WAW POLAND
    IST
    FCO
    FRA
    ZRH SWITZERLAND
    BRU BELGIUM
    ATH GREECE


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    #1553
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I thought they said countries!!!


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    #1554
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Glad they don't do that chatty bit at the start of the show anymore.


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    #1555
    MurdyWurdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    So, while you're all enjoying Pointless I'm at the dentist waiting to get a root canal. I was not expecting this when I woke up this morning. Do me proud in my absence Boardsies!


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    #1556
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    RIX - The capital of Iceland that I can't spell?


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    #1557
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Amsterdam

    Munich

    Madrid

    Copehnagen

    Vienna


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    #1558
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    aMs Amsterdam
    Muc
    Rix
    Cph
    cDY Paris


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    #1559
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    RIX - The capital of Iceland that I can't spell?

    Only other city is Riga in Latvia I can think of, no clue though


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    #1560
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Rix rheciavic?


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    #1561
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    RIX - The capital of Iceland that I can't spell?

    That's what I was trying to spell


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