So true!! Even though they're technically hosts, they act like an audience but in a professional manner. I love how Alex basically bursts out laughing at 6:46 because he can't keep his cool. They seen like very nice people. :)
I got into an interesting discussion about this recently, and someone suggested it's a cultural thing. Brits really do enjoy quizzes and games and aren't quite as motivated to watch by big prizes as Americans, whereas it often takes a large jackpot to get us to tune in.
@@Subangelis I'm an old American, and I remember the original Jeopardy! in which if you came away with $2000, you were a major winner. I guess inflation has done its thing since then so that $2000 back then would be ~$15,000 today, but that's still a very small prize for a game show; in the original version of Jeopardy!, the main idea was the fun of playing the game rather than for the money.
All the multi millionaires scoffing at the usual 1000 jackpot! I'd happily take a grand from standing around having banter with Xander and Richard and having fun.
She needs to get a copy of that book, get Philip Pullman to autograph it after telling him how this book won her a lot of money and keep it displayed next to the trophy.
£20,000 should be baseline for the cash prize. £1000 is absolutely pitiful. Especially considering what the contestants have to go through in that final round. £1000 is a month's wages for a lot of people in Britain. What the Hell can you do with a grand these days? Not a lot!
It is everyday bro. Also, the BBC is publicly funded - with the stupid shit I've heard people complain about their taxes going towards it wouldn't surprise me that people would get extremely pissed off if the BBC were throwing 20k a week at a game show. _Uhhh b-but Chris Evans,_ as if people bat an eyelid when their money goes into the pockets of rich people. As soon as that money goes into the pockets of "nobodies" people flip their shit. That is just how the world works.
It's made by the BBC, which is funded by public money through the TV license. They can't therefore have massive jackpots. If you'll recall though, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was originally produced in England by ITV, and they regularly gave away huge sums of money.
+J H Robbins It's not fair to generalise UK game shows as miserly. Remember that Who Wants to be a Millionaire originated in the UK. As others have mentioned, daytime game shows have lower prizes.
1:45 My answer is _Lyra's Oxford._ I bet nobody ever remembers or thinks of that one. I still remember the day I discovered it in the library. On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't count, but I don't see how it's not a "children's book".
Because it's not all about big money prizes here. In quizzes like Pointless, people actually ENJOY taking part, whether they win or not. It's just not all about money here.
You could tell Xander thought they'd won. He must have been going on about "biggest pointless jackpot" for ages... I remember him saying that when the first one for £10k came up...then 11... and 12. Or something.
It would have been mine too. I once stood for two hours in the freezing cold in Oxford to get him to sign two copies as Christmas presents for my cousins.
Despite the fact that Pointless on BBC goes head-to-head with The Chase on ITV every weekday afternoon at 5:00, it's still a great show and I do think it deserves to come here to America! We've already got The Chase so why not get Pointless! I'm sure it would have to be a daytime or syndicated show because it has an accumulating jackpot. I think the jackpot should start at $5,000 and go up by that much each show until it is won plus $1,000 for each Pointless answer that the contestants find along the way.
A bit unfair to call British gameshows miserly. Granted until the early 1990s there were limits on ITV (The BBC have always been a little more austere as its publicly funded), but the gameplay has always taken precedence over the cash in most cases.
Did I miss something? Switched on Pointless tonight (20.8.14) and the jackpot has been won! I know I'm sad for being annoyed at missing it but still fed up!
I'm totally with you!! Yesterday £19,750... Today £1000 again. I'm livid. BBC just simply didn't show it. I don't get showing 14+ days of a jackpot being built, then not showing it being won. It seems pretty.... Pointless.
I noticed this too. I assumed there was a question in one of the rounds that was in bad taste for some reason (a round on Robin Williams or something similar).
To all who watch Pointless, If you haven't worked It out by now you never will. It is an entertainment show first , a quiz show second. If you want to see people who win big money go watch Robin Askwith/Bradley Walsh on The Chase ! .
Travis Mitchell They don't often win big money on the chase. In fact it's possible that the ,only paid put on the chase is less over all than on pointless. The chasers are too clever and quicker thinkers than the contestants.
That Dark Materials trilogy is GENIUS. I remember reading them as a child, then reading Potter, & thinking... wtf? how on earth is the latter more successful than the former!?
This episode was mentioned on Points of View and they said they would show the result. However, what they showed was from the £20,000 episode and NOT the £20,250 one. Fuck sake BBC! Good thing I had already seen it when it was first broadcasted.
Hi guys, thank goodness, I thought I was going nuts!!! do you think we will ever see the big win??? After all the waiting and the build up, then today it was £1000 again. Thought I had missed something :{ :[
..."The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ" was Pointless? Really? I mean, the fact that "The Subtle Knife," which even I would have gotten, only had five was something, but still.
Because it has to build up over a course of weeks. This was a time where nobody could win for ages so this couple won big time. Today people win more often so the jackpot is reset to a grand more often.
Watched yesterday's episode (19th August) and jackpot up to £19,750. Watched today's episode (20th August) to see if it would be won but jackpot only £1000 !!! WHAT'S GOING ON???
Its so bloody annoying that the BBC can show all of the programmes buidling up the jackpot......and then not even be able to show the episode where its one. If its the only episode that was missed I can't even see who won it from the names. He mentioned in Wednesday's episode the two names that won it but they weren't on the episode on Tuesday so they must have been two new contestants.
oh my god i thought those 2 were married XD when i looked more closley i saw .... or when they said what they would do with they money oh just shush i know im thick
+JH Robbins. The reason why many game show prizes are lower in the UK is because they are made by the BBC which is publically funded (by a licence which currently costs £145.50 a year, which is mandatory to everyone with no opt-out but that's another debate) and has no commercials, so they spend the money on what they consider more important things like executives pay (around $200,000 pa), although in theory content has to be more balanced to appeal to everyone so there is less trash TV; a game show like Pointless has to be entertaining rather than be about money. Shows made by ITV like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire typically have prizes comparable with American game shows, one example being The Price Is Right which I think is an American import game show about big money prizes and little else. Deal Or No Deal is a dreadful game show (although interestingly produced by Richard Osman), like Millionaire without the questions and more waffle, is presented by a bearded cunt who recently pretended he was going to buy the BBC.
I don't understand a couple of things about the scheduling of Pointless. I watch it on BBC's iPlayer so I am watching basically re-runs. I did watch this particular season... until the show immediately preceding this one... then they never showed this episode! I guess that really is not a question but a complaint. My other question is how is the show scheduled? They never say: "This is the last show of the season. We will be back in x months...". At the end of one season, what happens with the contestants that have only had one try? The third question is about the prize. Did both of these contestants win 20,225 or do the divide that between the two?
The show has a £1000 base prize for every episode, so a £20,000 win is the same as if £1000 had been won on the previous 19 shows. No chance of them being bankrupt.
I contacted the BBC and they said that there had been a query on one of the questions and although it did not affect the outcome, they did not want to raise the query again
20k pounds = $31,600 dollars. Jeopardy regularly gives this amount away generally over a 2 day span (but quite often daily). Why are English game shows so miserly? I think I remember something about a law, maybe?
This game show is POINTLESS because the amount of money you win is shit for example that person won £20,000 and the next game goes down to a stupid £1,000 And also when answering questions people are put in order of answering so people don't get a fair chance to answer what they know
I get sick of this programme, with its' middle class presenters and contestants. I also get f**ing sick of not being allowed to play the game myself, due to them constantly removing the questions board from our view. How the f** are we supposed to play when we can't see the questions? But the BIGGEST gripe I have is how the GAME IS FIXED for certain couples to get through to the final ; I always guess who's in the final and has anyone noticed how often they get a subject they are 'expert' on? What a f***ing fixed scam.
It's pretty easy to answer the questions without them being on screen the whole time. If anything it bothers me that Alexander wastes time readng all the questions twice in the case of a multi choice round.
