I love the UK version. Looking forward to this unless Denyer is the host.
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Really hoping they keep Richard’s fake laptop in front of him or I will be very disappointed
Yeah why not? It’s not as if young people are even watching TV much these days anyway. Why not try and have a better retention from the 5pm news and take away some total viewers from the 6pm bulletins on Nine and Seven?
Pointless is normally a 45-minute show for BBC so Ten will need to trim it a fair amount to suit a 30-minute format unless The Project 6:30pm gets the bump. Importantly I hope and trust they will include a studio audience as they do in the UK. Unlike The Chase UK/Australia where it’s all canned.
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Would’ve been a good get it Ten had been able to secure Bath for the role.
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I think that would have been an odd choice.
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Now, him I’d watch. And he’d be a new face for most viewers which would be a huge plus.
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Remembering the excitement generated over her fill-in ABC News NSW presenting stint last year, I can also imagine how much of a frenzy Media Spy would’ve been whipped into if Chris Bath was chosen to be the host of Pointless! 
Mark Humphries would be another interesting choice as host, but I think his style might be a bit “too ABC/SBS” for mainstream commercial TV audiences to appreciate.
Knowing what commercial TV gameshows are generally like, I’ll bet that Ten will try and get some sort of polarising Grant/Eddie/AOK-type host.
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Don’t you watch Studio 10 five days a week?
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Micallef pls
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He’s already doing a game show, a topical game show and a scripted comedy show. Somebody less exposed would be good.
Gretel?
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Pointless confirmed to be coming out of Ten’s Pyrmont studios (if it wasn’t already?), surely a host has to be announced very soon.
Filming dates are:
27 June 11:30am
28 June 12:00pm & 4:00pm
05 July 12:00pm & 6:00pm
06 July 12:00pm & 6:00pm
10 July 12:00pm & 5:30pm
12 July 12:00pm & 5:30pm
20 July 12:00pm & 5:30pm
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Pretty much confirms it will air nightly
This next game show they’ll squeeze that lemon dry again by doing it nightly… again
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It airs nightly in the UK, why can’t that happen here?
As long as it’s only 5 nights a week to not overdo it, they can come up with something else for 6pm Sunday’s to fill that slot.
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Wishful thinking from my end, but going by the recording dates (and times) above, are there initially only 15 episodes being filmed? It can air once a week in the final ratings quater of 2018. If successful, then can somehow air weeknights in 2019?
Isn’t that what Channel Seven did with Deal or no Deal. Air a weekly game show first, then air it nightly some time after? (And to an extent, Nine’s Who Wants to be a Millionaire into Hot Seat).
But knowing what Ten is like, they will most likely air it weeknights!
I think we’ve reached a point for a game show to air once a week it has to be more than just a regular game show, it has to be spectacular in concept ie. The Wall, Game of Games, etc. A normal, run of the mill game show just isn’t weekly appointment viewing, they don’t have a hook to keep you coming back. You can get away with a more traditional style game show when it’s every night when it creates familiarity, consistency. Pointless once a week wouldn’t make a dent in anything, in my opinion.
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This show looks so boring based on watching the UK Version.
The sessions are up to 6 hours long, they film multiple episodes back to back. My guess is that they have commissioned an initial run of 50-60 episodes which will last then 10-12 weeks from September through to the end of the year.
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