TV Game Shows Research - Pointless

1. The uses and gratification theory is that different people use media for different reasons. It is about what people do to media. There are several needs and gratification for people they are categorised into five categories:

• Cognitive needs
• Affective needs
• Personal Integrative needs
• Social Integrative needs
• Tension free needs

Cognitive needs is where people use media to gain knowledge. Affective needs is where people use media to be emotionally effected. Personal Integrative needs is where people use media to reassure their status, gain credibility and stabilise. Social Integrative needs is where people use media to fit in with other people. Tension free needs is where people use media as a relief from stress.

2. In the show there four rounds. The first two rounds rounds are elimination rounds where the team with highest score goes out in each round. Then there is the head to head round were the two remaining teams play a best of three round. The winner of this goes to final round. At this point they have already one the show however to win the prize money they have three guesses to get a pointless answer to a question. 
The  point of the show is to get the answer to the question that has the lowest amount of people got before the show. If they get answer that no one guessed before the show it is a pointless answer and £250 is added to the prize money for the show.
 The people on the show are usually around 30 years old, however sometimes there are younger or older people. The people are around 30 as the show tries to appeal to adults at home during the day.
The host of the show is Alexander Armstrong. His appeal is that he is charismatic and talkative so he makes the show interesting. The co-host is Richard Osman. His appeal is that he knowledgable so he makes the show seem accurate and believable.
The show is a type of quiz show. This is shown as during the opening credits where numbers fly around the screen. The show is also a game show. This is shown by the bright colours and sparks flying around which represent it be lively.
The show is made by Remarkable Television for the BBC. As there are no adverts on BBC the show is funded by the BBC who get the money from the TV  licence. The prize for the show is £2,500 and it rolls over each week increasing by £2,500 each week. Also £250 is added for every pointless answer before the final round. The show had a peak audience of over 7 million viewers. I think pointless is for E, D and C2 on for demographics because it is on during the day where people who don't work would be able to watch it. I think the series is for strugglers for physcographics.

3. The show is called Pointless. The goal in the show is to get the lowest amount of points which will interest people because  the show is unique and the goal is the opposite to normal shows. The prize is a minimum of £1000 but the prize increases by £1000 every week if the prize is not won. The show will start off with four teams of two. The host will then ask about the people about themselves and how the two people in the pairs know each other. After this there is the first round. The host will say what the topic is and then one person from each pair steps forward. A question comes up on the board which is either free or multiple choice. The first person from each pair then tries to answer the question with the answer with the lowest points. The points for the answer are decided before the show where 100 people are given 100 seconds to give as many answers as possible to the question (if someone get an incorrect answer 100 points are given). The scores are then recorded. The second person does the same thing as the first person for a different question in the same topic. Their scores are then added the first person's score and the team with the highest score gets knocked out. If a person gets a pointless answer (an answer that scores 0 points) £250 gets added to the prize. The second round is exactly the same as the first except there is one less pair. The third is slightly different. The remaining pairs can now confer and the round is a best of three. Both pairs get asked a question and the pair who get the lowest points wins the first round of the best of three. This continues until one pair get two points in the round. The team who get the two pints first go through the final round. The pair at this point have one the show and they get the trophy however they haven't won the prize money. The final pair then choose between three topics for the final round. Once they have chosen the topic three questions appear. The final pair then have a minute to guess three answer to any of the questions. If any of the answers are pointless the pair win the money however if they don't get a pointless answer they don't get any of the money.
I think the show would be good because the something being pointless is bad whereas in this show it is good so it will interest people.