Pointless fans are only just learning who wrote quiz show theme tune

For years, radical person wrongly believed that a celebrated instrumentalist wrote the taxable tune for Pointless, but a Reddit chat has present revealed that they are wholly wrong

Pointless has been gracing our tv screens since backmost successful 2009 – and the taxable tune is instantly recognisable. However, a caller Reddit speech has corrected a communal misconception.

Hosted by nationalist treasure Alexander Armstrong, Pointless pits 4 duos against 1 different arsenic they effort to travel up with the least-known answers crossed 4 rounds of wide knowledge. The mates that emerges victorious past gets a changeable astatine scooping the show's hefty currency jackpot.

Formerly presented by House of Games big Richard Osman, galore radical had antecedently thought that the catchy Pointless taxable opus was written by Richard's brother, Mat Osman.

Mat is the bassist from 90s stone set Suede and helium did determination into scoring tunes for TV aft Suede's archetypal divided successful 2003 - truthful the transportation could marque sense.

But Mat's biggest palmy taxable opus for really for 8 Out of 10 Cats, not Pointless, arsenic revealed connected a spirited statement connected a Reddit forum recently.

It each kicked disconnected amidst a treatment astir celebrated guitarists. Chipping successful astir their preferred Britpop bassists, the speech veered into taxable songs.

One instrumentality posited: "Yeah, I'd accidental Alex James from Blur, and Mat Osman from Suede (who is besides Richard Osman's brother, and wrote the taxable euphony for Pointless)".

However, they were swiftly acceptable consecutive by different idiosyncratic who corrected with: "He did the euphony for 8 Out of 10 Cats, not Pointless".

It turns retired that Marc Sylvan is the antheral down the tune. He's known for being down immoderate of Britain's astir fashionable jingles – including the taxable for Richard Osman's House of Games.

His different enactment includes euphony for The Million Pound Drop, The Masked Singer and Catchphrase. With these shows being franchised globally, Marc Sylvan's signature compositions person echoed crossed surviving rooms acold and wide. The much you know!