Pointless
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| First episode date | August 24, 2009 |
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| Starring | Richard Osman |
| No. of series | 21 (regular); 11 (celebrity) |
| Production location(s) | Television Centre |
| Elstree Studios | |
| No. of episodes | 1161 (regular as of 29 May 2019); 197 (celebrity as of 1 June 2019) |
| Presented by | Richard Osman |
| why doesn;t someone gag the awful Richard Osman. His puerile comments spoil what is often a very entertaining . . . | |
| Alexander Armstrong | |
| Reviews | www.imdb.com |
| Product compani | Brighter Pictures |
| Networks | BBC Two |
| Theme music compos | Marc Sylvan |
| No of seri | 26 ; 13 (celebrity) |
| Execut produc | Pam Cavannagh |
| Episodes | EpisodesS24 E15 · Episode 15Oct 27, 2020 S23 E55 · Episode 55Oct 6, 2020 S23 E54 · Episode 54Oct 5, 2020 View 45+ more |
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| ID | 979054 |
About Pointless
Most quiz shows test contestants' knowledge of important topics like history, geography and literature with the winning contestant being the one who scores the most points. `Pointless' isn't most quiz shows. Contestants try to score as few points as possible by racking their brains and trying to come up with answers no one else can think of for general-knowledge questions. The contestants are asked the same questions that were previously asked of surveyed individuals, with the goal of giving the correct answers that were given least frequently by the people surveyed. If a contestant provides a correct answer that was not said by anyone in the survey, known as a pointless answer, they get no points and money is added to the jackpot, which is the grand prize a contestant can win for giving a correct pointless answer in the final round. The jackpot starts at £1,000 and keeps growing each episode until someone wins it, at which point it is reset to the original £1,000. … MORE
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We are Stoke-on-Trent: 'Buses are so bad, going out is pointless'
Passengers in Stoke-on-Trent have rung the bell on what they say is a poor service
Buses in Stoke-on-Trent do not run late enough into the evening, offer an unpredictable service and are too expensive to use, passengers have told the BBC. So, how bad is it, and what can be done?
As part of The Project , residents have been speaking about the issues that matter to them, And One issue that keeps Coming Up is those single and double-deckers.
Some passengers say they have regular problems getting to work and college On Time , while others say reduced services make them feel isolated. Waiting all day for a bus and two turning up at once seems to be the least of the difficulties.
The people having the problemsFor 17-year-old college student Grace Smith , the services are not fit for purpose and cost "an arm and a leg".
Her mum, Claire, pays for her weekly bus pass which costs £15, and also covers an additional, daily charge of £4. 40 as the teenager relies on two different providers for the two legs of her journey to Stoke-on-Trent College from her home in Cheddleton. It amounts to a total monthly charge of about £140.
On top of that, Miss Smith says The Journey can sometimes take up to two Hours - despite only living about 10 Miles Away .
Stephanie Mountford, 58, works at a Sainsbury's in The City and often cannot get a bus back to her home in Norton Green, even if she finishes at 17:30.
"It's just useless," She Said .
Other passengers say they have seen services stopped entirely.
Adrian Tooth, 49, a course leader at Staffordshire University , used to catch The Number 21 bus from Trentham to Hanley to go out on Tuesday evenings.
"The service was stopped out of The Blue and people were just stripped of their independence," he said.
John Housley said catching the bus for a Night Out was Pointless - "by the time you get there you've got to catch The Last bus back"John Housley, 71, a joiner from the Staffordshire Moorlands, had a similar experience.
He said: "In The Last two years I've seen The Last bus from Leek go from being 22:30 to 19:30.
"It makes going out in an evening Pointless - by the time you get there you've got to catch The Last bus back. "
What do passengers want?Passengers say they want to see more coordinated services for different groups of users.
Grace Smith says there should be more support for Young People through The Restoration of the under-18 bus pass. It was scrapped by Staffordshire County Council over the summer.
The Authority said the decision was due to an 80% drop in the uptake of passes since 2014/15.
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Mr Tooth, top left, says when services are stopped out of The Blue , it makes going out trickierMr Tooth said operators should consider the impact of services on older people, while Mrs Mountford said she would Like services to be run better for commuters.
Darren Shirley, chief executive of Campaign for Better Transport, says the government needs to create a national strategy to ensure communities such as those in Stoke-on-Trent are not left disconnected.
What do the bus companies say? It was once just the wheels on the bus that went round and round, but operator D& G recognises another kind of cycleBus services in Stoke-on-Trent are delivered by three operators.
One of the companies, D& G, says it recognises cutting back a service can prompt a "vicious cycle" of putting people off travelling, which may "lead to further journeys being withdrawn over time".
Operator First Potteries says its services are frequent, flexible and "90% run On Time ". It recently announced a raft of changes to its services, due to come into force from 29 September.
The BBC has approached the third operator, Arriva, for comment.
A Stoke-on-Trent City Council spokesperson says The Authority is "in The Process of creating a plan to deliver a better Public Transport provision, working with bus operators".
This article was created as part of, a BBC project with the people of The City to tell us the stories which matter to them.
stoke-on-trent, trentham, bus travel, leek, biddulph, hanley, cheddleton
Source of news: bbc.com
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