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Pointless Celebrities is a British game show presented by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman. It has been airing on BBC1 since 4 July 2011.

Format
Four pairs play the game. One hundred people are surveyed before the programme, and are asked to provide answers from a list question, such as "name actors in Back to the Future". The aim is to provide answers that the fewest number of people were able to provide, with the highest-scoring pair leaving at the end of each round; in rounds 1-3, if the contestants can provide an answer that none of the hundred could, this is termed a "Pointless" answer, and it adds £250 to the jackpot; if they do so in round 4, they win it for their charities. In civilian editions, the jackpot starts at £1,000 and losers win nothing while in Pointless Celebrities the jackpot starts at £2,500 and losers win £500.

Series 1
Series 1 consisted of five episodes.

Series 2
Series 2 consisted of eight episodes.

Series 3
Series 3 consisted of nine episodes.

Series 4
Series 4 consisted of ten episodes.

Series 5
Series 5 consisted of six episodes.

Series 6
Series 6 consisted of twelve episodes, of which episodes 11 and 12 are yet to air.

Series 7
Series 7 consisted of 31 episodes. Episode 11 has yet to air.

Series 8
Series 8 consisted of seven episodes.

Series 9
Series 9 consisted of nineteen episodes, of which episodes 18 and 19 are yet to air.

Series 10
Series 10 consisted of seven episodes.

Series 11
This series consists of 26 episodes.

Controversies
Two episodes attracted controversy following their broadcast. The first, which aired 27 October 2014, was criticised by several irate fans for its inclusion of Kelvin Mackenzie due to him being responsible for The Sun's infamous "The Truth" headline; Osman noted in at least twenty comments on Twitter that he did not know about his appearance on the show until "an hour before" and had "strongly argued against it". Another episode, broadcast 30 April 2016, saw contestant Iain Lee accused of racism after identifying a visual clue to a band which consisted of two young Indian girls looking at spices in what he and his team-mate thought was a convenience store as representative of Cornershop; it actually represented the Spice Girls, and a number of Twitter users attributed his delusion to the fact that the girls were Indian, and alleged racism. After both the Metro and The Sun ran stories about this, Lee defended himself on Twitter and his radio show Late Nights with Iain Lee, insisting on the latter: "I didn't notice that they were Indian - I saw two girls. I wasn't even looking at the girls - I was looking at the shop. I genuinely didn't see they were Asian. Most people have seen this for the nonsense it is." He then joked: "The racist doth protest too much."