{"id":1937,"date":"2010-08-30T16:08:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T15:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2010-08-30T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T16:56:10","slug":"show-discussion-pointless-series-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Show discussion: Pointless Series 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popular Alexander Armstrong quiz Pointless<\/strong> returns for its third series today at 4:30pm on BBC2, here’s a place to discuss it.<\/p>\n

The biggest change is in round two which works quite well and opens up quite a large avenue to explore – the category is given (in this first episode “movies and their taglines”) and then six tagliunes are bought up. The object is to select one and give the correct movie the\u00a0tag comes from. If they are correct, they score the same amount as the amount of the 100 people who also got it right (so the object is pick the ones you know that also fewest people knew), a wrong answer scores an automatic 100. A second set of questions comes up after the first\u00a0sweep.\u00a0At a very basic level, you could ask\u00a0any set of questions that has been tested on the 100 respondees here, turning into a sort of Pointless<\/em> take on Beat the Nation<\/strong>.\u00a0It looks like there’s a pointless answer on each list as well, although this isn’t explicitly stated, and in the first episode brings some surprising results. I prefer it to series two’s round two, which seemed a bit easy.<\/p>\n

Round three has been reduced to best of three rather than five. Otherwise no other changes to report. Pointless<\/em> is probably the best daytime quiz on the telly right now, and possibly one of the\u00a0most\u00a0consistantly entertaining\u00a0quizzes full stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Popular Alexander Armstrong quiz Pointless returns for its third series today at 4:30pm on BBC2, here’s a place to discuss it. The biggest change is in round two which works quite well and opens up quite a large avenue to explore – the category is given (in this first episode “movies and their taglines”) and\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-vf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}