To wish quiz show hosts

[StabbyCat]

Would just get on with it?

Ok ask the name and occupation of the contestant. That’s all I care to hear thanks.

I don’t care what they’d spend the money on.
I don’t care if they’ve got a funny story about a bucket. It won’t be funny.
I don’t care what their hobbies are.

Just get on with the quiz/game.

I don't know why the producers think we want all the waffle. It's like when Strictly Come Dancing stopped having as much of the rehearsals footage before each dance and it became daft pranks on each other or going to meet the families of the competitors. It's a dance competition, I watched for the dancing and enjoyed seeing them rehearse. I stopped watching years ago.

We watch them on catch up and skip through all the introductory waffle. I can’t bear it either.

I think that the new format of WWTBAM is quite good now.Although it takes a bit of getting used to! The chit chat is limited as a shorter show. I too dislike all the chat on Pointless and prefer to join after the first round too

University Challenge is the only quiz we watch although I find Amol quite annoying when he repeats an answer with "Yes, .........." with a minuscule difference in pronunciation.

For the quizzes if a quiz has three rounds with 6 questions in each there is a basic time. But the team may take different lengths of time to answer the questions. On some the questions can be passed across for a bonus point. Could be very short eound if you have a really good team and then need the filler or one with lots of questions repeated using up the spare time.

But I find that all so fake and i love Lee Mack!
OP fully agree, way to much waffle at the start AND in between questions!

The Generation Game. The ultimate in aimless guff and unfunny stories, often with something ‘hilarious’ to do with a wedding night (seems so quaint now). Followed by the ritual humiliation of show-offs who would chop off their right hand to appear on the telly.

We viewers have it easy these days.

I’m with you all the way, OP.

I couldn’t give a flying toss about the minutiae of the contestants’ lives, I just want the quiz bit.
Most quizzes are far too slow because of this, so I just record and then fast forward through the bullshit.
I did this to ‘Beat the Chasers’ the other night and finished an hour long programme in 17 minutes.

This is the worst! There’s so much of it and it’s so tedious. I’m with the OP, on with the show!
try only connect OP, it’s hard but minimal chitchat

I watched Wheel of Fortune with Graham Norton. Utterly boring nonsense of a game show.

Lee Mack is hilarious when he’s not scripted. Everything on 1% club is so rehearsed and contrived that it’s just annoying

It’s most annoying on Pointless - that opening round takes about half the show and it’s so boring. I’m happy if it’s a round about football, golf or similar because then I just fast forward the whole thing, but if it’s a round I actually want to do, it’s so frustrating.

Have noticed on University Challenge that Amol has started to do the thing Paxman used to do of being a bit scornful sometimes if they don’t know something, which sounds so condescending. “Come on! Of COURSE it’s James Clerk Maxwell!” At least he’s generally warmer and kinder than Paxman though.

They have to stretch it out to an hour long episode.

But I completely get you - I hate it too!

Chris Tarrant on who wants to be a millionaire used to drive me insane!!

Perhaps instead of all the waffle, they should just have additional mini-quizzes for the audience at home and then go through the answers.

I raise you Strike It Lucky. Fully 15 minutes of "hilarity" with the couples.

Have noticed on University Challenge that Amol has started to do the thing Paxman used to do of being a bit scornful sometimes if they don’t know something, which sounds so condescending. “Come on! Of COURSE it’s James Clerk Maxwell!” At least he’s generally warmer and kinder than Paxman though.

I hate this too or the way he repeats their answer in a sarcastic, questioning voice. So patronising.

Fair, very fair.

I’ll put Brucie into the silver medal position.

My favourite for a bit of background but no more was Bullseye. But then it had the inestimable Jim Bowen. And the world’s least articulate contestants.

Totally agree with this, it's not supposed to look 'staged' but it's horribly staged to watch (contestants already know the 'joke' and have practiced it) and we're all supposed to pretend we all don't know and find it funny? It's not, it's shit, every time, all the time. We're not as gullible as we were in the 90s.

Brucey did it far better than Lee Mack/Bradley Walsh etc ever could but it's dated and done now.

It's really naff and makes me switch off.

YA so not being U. I only have to see Alexander Armstrong do his obsequious head tilt - ‘So, Sheila, I hear you’re a keen charity abseiler?’- and I want to scream NO CHIT-CHAT in the voice of Mrs Doyle screeching NO CLUES at Father Todd Unctious.

He should just say, ‘So, Sheila, abseiling, or whatever, I’m not really listening, fifty one seconds to fill this gap, no swearing or advertising, go’ and be done with it.

The millionaire hot seat isn’t too bad. It’s all very quick and I like that format.

The other thing that annoys me on Pointless is when they make the contestants answer when it’s clear they are going out anyway! It feels a bit humiliating. I wish they had a faster format.
Also they ask such inane questions to each one of them about who they are and so on.

I will admit to a snigger when Alexander Armstrong says something like 'Welcome to Pointless, Adam. Tell us something about yourself.' and Adam says earnestly 'I'm a Trainee Brand Energiser in the Global Marketing Division of a world leading manufacturer of widgets and sprockets' and without missing a beat Xander says 'Very good, and what do you do for fun, Adam?' We all know Adam's job isn't fun, and there's no way of sincerely telling him that sounds like a really satisfying worthwhile job, so off to the charity abseiling we go.

I don’t know why anyone goes on pointless really as it’s so hard to actually get one and the final round is almost impossible a lot of the time.
The Ant or Dec one is also annoying.

It wasn't so bad a few years ago but now the final categories are ludicrously niche. Do you want to answer questions on All-Female New Guinean Thrash Metal Bands, Postage Stamps from 1950s Phillipines, or Socks Worn by FIFA Goal Scorers between 1966 and 1982?

It's nice when a Pointless niche aligns with your own. Completely agree about the futility of learning about George from Aberdeen's dog walking business and his sideline dealing in antique silver rattles. It really pisses me off when they keep in the contestant ramblings about choosing the answer with the fewest points. That's the aim of the fricking game, you wally. I would probably say the same thing if I went on the show, and would expect them to edit that out as an act of mercy.

The final round in pointless was once one category to answer from ( very early days) then three and now two! It has altered over the years and I agree that unless you’re a niche person yourself , it is very difficult to get the right category for you and the pointless , they often get down to one! Which is annoying. I wish they had a cut off point for the final ( maybe score five or below and you win) but it’s so rigid.
My view is they don’t want any winners!