Rick Edwards hosts the daytime quiz show in which 21 recurring contestants must avoid choosing the impossible answer as they compete for the chance to win 10,000 pounds.Rick Edwards hosts the daytime quiz show in which 21 recurring contestants must avoid choosing the impossible answer as they compete for the chance to win 10,000 pounds.Rick Edwards hosts the daytime quiz show in which 21 recurring contestants must avoid choosing the impossible answer as they compete for the chance to win 10,000 pounds.
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The show is slow and uninteresting, viewers feel no need to engage with the questions, the host is bland and uncharismatic, and the music is unthematic, annoying, all over the place and frankly terrible.
Now that it's clear that pointless on they out, I really hope this isn't the show the beeb decide to replace it with. 5:15 should be reserved for only the best gameshows, like The Weakest Link, or Pointless in its early years.
Frankly, getting any enjoyment from this show is impossible
Not a bad format from the BBC to fill their gameshow quota.
Rick Edwards is as wooden a host as you could ever find though.
Rick Edwards is as wooden a host as you could ever find though.
Love the format of this show. No matter how clever a contestant they're always potentially one fiendish question away from being eliminated. Rick Edwards does a great job of balancing questions with humour. Plenty of potential twists and a decent guaranteed cash prize every show unlike Pointless where the prize is dependent on how previous contestants have performed. The group who were on the week 6-10 August were particularly entertaining. Gutted when Reg didn't make the grid area. The idea of players being on all week means you can root for players and get to know them a little as the days go on. Great show - long may it reign!
Pity the poor producers of this show, lumbered with expectation after the genius concept of Pointless, they've scored an inevitable miss here. The presenter has zero charisma, which suffers further by being spread so thinly over so very many contestants. But the real problem is the game format. The basic law of quiz shows is that there are right answers and wrong answers, bringing in 'possible' and 'impossible' ones makes for a very woolly, unrewarding game, that doesn't reinvent the word like 'pointless' did. It just kind of sounds dumb.
First off, I truly adore trivia games! I like them to move at a consistent pace, and I like a variety of trivia. I love a variety of levels within a game. This totally ticks all of the boxes! I love to not only guess the right answer but to also guess the impossible answer. I just watched two shows for the first time today, and I had no knowledge of it before (I'm American). I like the host , who seems very natural and comfortable in his roll, and I like the way they have a panel of contestants in the beginning and then go through the process of elimination. Would highly recommend this for any trivia buff!
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- TriviaOn Friday, 8th July 2022, presenter Rick Edwards tweeted that the BBC had decided not to commission a ninth series of the game show.
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