Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Writers Pointless Celebrities, 6th June

Pointless Celebrities on Saturday 6th June, at 7.30pm, is a Writers special.


Taking part are Martina Cole and Mark Billingham, Liz Pichon and Nick Sharratt, Juno Dawson and Nadia Shireen, and Adam Kay and Ian McMillan.

Pointless nominated in the TV Choice Awards

Pointless has been longlisted in the Daytime category of the TV Choice Awards, and Richard Osman's House of Games is longlisted in Entertainment.

Voting on the longlist remains open until midnight on Friday 12th June. Please give Xander, Richard, and all the production team your support!

Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Alexander Armstrong on Classic FM

Alexander Armstrong will take over as host of Classic FM's flagship daytime show, from 9am to noon on weekdays.


Xander has had regular weekend shows for several years now, adding one hundred thousand to his listener numbers in the last year alone. Tune in to hear him on digital, online, or on a smart speaker, from 9am on Monday 1st June.

Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Sitcoms Pointless Celebrities, 30th May

Pointless Celebrities on 30th May, at 7.55pm, is a Sitcoms special.


Taking part are 'Allo 'Allo's Richard Gibson and Kim Hartman, Ewen Macintosh and Patrick Baladi from The Office, Nina Wadia from Still Open All Hours and Abdullah Afzal of Citizen Khan, and Perry Benson, who was in Oh, Doctor Beeching and You Rang, M'Lud with Hi-de-Hi's Jeffrey Holland.

Armstrong and Miller bring back Timeghost

Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller are reviving their podcast, Timeghost.The first three episodes are available from Wednesday 20th May.


The original podcast ran for 26 episodes in 2009, Xander and Ben play Martin Baine-Jones and Craig Children, two cultural commentators pronouncing on what's in the zeitgeist, often without having seen the work in question.

Timeghost is available through the Acast network, or on all major podcast platforms.

Thursday, 14 May 2020

Sci-Fi and Fantasy Pointless Celebrities, 23rd May

Pointless Celebrities on Saturday 23rd May, at 7.50pm, is Sci-Fi and Fantasy themed.


Competing are Sophie Aldred and Carole Ann Ford, Josh Herdman and Louis Cordice, Sandra Dickinson and John Duttine, and Kiran Shah and Clive Mantle.

Wednesday, 6 May 2020

Eurovision Pointless Celebrities, 16th May

There's a Eurovision special of Pointless Celebrities on 16th May, at 5.40pm on BBC1.


Competing are Jay Aston and Mike Nolan, SuRie and Dana, Jade Ewen and John Lundvik, and Niamh Kavanagh and Mans Zelmerlow.

And, of course, there's never a bad time to revisit Xander and Richard as Nul Points, their Eurovision spoof band.