Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Dave This is a BBC quiz show that began in 2009 and is still running. In this show, teams of two compete to give correct answers that none of the hundred members of the public gave - those are pointless answers. For example, if the question is "Name a country beginning with B", then Benin might be a pointless answer, whereas Brazil would be a high score. In each round, a team is eliminated.The host Alexander Armstrong wastes a lot of time with irrelevant chat between him and the contestants. Even worse is the annoying, arrogant banter between him and his assistant Richard Osman. The rounds vary to a ridiculous extent in that it often quickly changes from very serious, high-brow topics (such as constellations) - to silly things (such as nursery rhymes). Osman is a serious geek one minute - then making fun of Armstrong or a contestant the next. It should either be a serious high-brow quiz or trivial messing around - not jolt from one to another in the same episode like it often does. There is also a celebrity version, as well as an American version and several European versions.

studioAT Pointless shouldn't work. It's basically Family Fortunes in reverse. And yet it does work and continues to be one of the most popular game shows in the UK.I didn't really care for Alexander Armstrong when he and Ben Miller did sketch shows but he excels in his role as host and his banter with his co-host Richard Osman makes the show.It's easy enough viewing and unlike many similar shows the rules don't take half the length of the show to explain.Yes, like any gameshow the format gets a bit stale after a while and is boosted by Z list celeb editions, but for now people seem to really have embraced this show and finally having obscure knowledge seems to have paid off.

Sandcooler The thing that makes this show so brilliant is that it actually feels like an accomplishment when you know a good (obscure) answer. Who was the director of "The Terminator"? James Cameron. Was that fun? Of course not. However, when you have to name a James Cameron movie and try to go for an answer few people have heard of, that's an actual challenge. And because there's never one right answer you either know or don't know, you can actually sort of play this within family circles and such and such. The format has been tinkered with a lot already, but really the changes were all for the better. While there used to be four rounds that were somewhat slow-paced and similar to each other, now the show has actually transformed into a more compact program with less contestants, more interesting variations on the basic concept and just generally more fun. I also really like Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman, who host this show in quite a unique, atypical way. Richard's interventions can be well, pointless, as he has to say roughly the same stuff every episode (we're aware obscure answers score less points and wrong answers score 100, why the hell does he say that before the SECOND round?), but more often they're hilarious. Behold, the only quiz show I've ever liked, may it be on forever.

beresfordjd I am a bit of a saddo, as I really like this show when I catch it. Alexander Armstrong is an excellent front man for it and I really like him as a performer and was surprised to see him doing this. He has a special quality which comes across to the viewer (well this viewer anyway). The premise is that people try to find a pointless answer to the question posed thereby scoring as low as possible. Gentle humour is employed throughout and I like the fact that no-one is humiliated or made fools of in any way. I feel that the programme would benefit from a little faster pace but that is a minor quibble. It is almost educational sometimes too as one finds out facts one did not know before. Long may it last. Well I am adding to my review 16 months on and I am still addicted to it. If anything more so. It has really hit it's stride and Richard and Alexander's banter is witty, original and, unusually for a daytime quiz, funny. This one should run and run.