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Tonight’s ‘of interest’ is the 2,000th episode of Pointless<\/strong> (7:30pm, BBC1) and if you’re pondering yes 16 years feels like a long time to reach that figure for a daily show with weekend celebrity specials (although it took eight years to hit 1,000 episodes<\/a> so actually it tracks), but it was apparently recorded over two years ago (as indeed first run episodes on Saturdays recently have been).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We remember the heady excitement of the first time getting to be in the Pointless 100 and hopefully helping people to win on questions on rugby league and opera, two things I know next to nothing about. We also remember how much fun going to see the show being filmed was – they’re all audienceless since COVID which is a pity. We also remember when it used to kerbstomp The Chase<\/strong> in the ratings, when everyone would playalong on Twitter, but whilst it’s has been in decline for a number of years it’s still doing well enough that “what do we replace it with?” is a problem without a good answer. We’ve enjoyed watching it go around the world but apparently be so British it’s succeeded pretty much nowhere else (although surely France must be due another<\/em> go). One of its hosts left and it’s been fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was, I think, the first show to eke out new episodes by frequently repeating old ones in between in a way that was quite clever but quite annoying and now that’s a feature of lots of daily quizzes (well, The Chase<\/em> and Tipping Point<\/em>). It was the first show to not just call its celebrity episodes Celebrity Pointless<\/em> (the joke is, right,) and play with the form and now everybody does it, but everyone just ends up calling it Celebrity Tipping Point<\/em> anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congrats Pointless<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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