Impossible (2017–2021) User Reviews

Brilliant Quiz Show With Unique Format

[crislehmann · 10/10 · 27 August 2018]

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!

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[markmachen · 10/10 · 26 October 2021]

Great show, brilliantly hosted by Rick, cant understand people who say he is wooden! If anybody is wooden, its armstrong and osman on pointless, their efforts at jokes or humour are pathetic, rick, by contrast, has a very dry wit and handles lots of contestants very well. Also they all have a genuine chance of winning £10,000 each day, but in pointless the prize money is pitiful, you would need at least 10 shows to get a chance at 10,000. One thing i would like to know, how does Rick know all the answers without referring to any notes or tablets? He must either remember them or have them fed through an earpiece. Anyone know the answer to that?

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[studioAT · 3/10 · 9 July 2020]

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.

Lost me when the answer arachnid was not considered the right answer for spider

[ajmassey-11971 · 2/10 · 30 March 2020]

I love smart game shows...especially Jeopardy in the States...and thought I'd give Impossible a try. Being the first season, I watched for a while though I found Rick Edwards hosting difficult in that he was always shifting his gaze to the cue cards for the simplest dialogue. No doubt that would be rectified in time as he became more confident. I was also disappointing in that only a few of the contestants had decent general knowledge in art, literature, geography, science and the like. Nonetheless, I persisted in watching until, in one of the finals, the question for Anne was something to the effect of the classification of a tarantula. She replied arachnid and it was rejected because a tarantula belonged to spiders and insects! Not smart! Bravo to Anne for knowing literature and the Bronte's well in adding to the pot...one of the high spots that made watching of interest. Though she may not have won the grand final (Gerard did and he well deserved it), that lack of care for the correct answer (although a different word than the basic answer on the written card) left me uninterested in watching any more.

Dire

[downtoearthfencing · 15 August 2018]

As a Pointless fan I can't believe the BBC is airing this dull drivel in the 5:15 slot. Poor format, dreary host. Should be called "Unwatchable".

Nowhere near good enough for the 5:15 slot

[adamhanson-47648 · 1/10 · 8 August 2018]

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

What is this?

[blurbmuz · 1/10 · 16 August 2018]

Turned on to watch the brilliant Pointless & some irritating, bog standard rubbish came on. Totally lacking in all areas. Won't be back until Pointless returns or something equally fun and interesting which requires some real knowledge.

Where's the tie?

[susanbeddowes · 16 October 2017]

I love the show and think Rick is a great host. Admire his taste in fashion not many hosts wear a suit and tie and he always looks so smart but oh dear he's left his tie off in the new series, what a shame reduced to a Ben Shepherd look alike!! It won't stop me watching the show which has got to be one of the best on television.

Poor

[jamesowen-2 · 2/10 · 31 August 2018]

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.

Impossible... just perfectly sums up this heavily flawed and tedious format in a nutshell

[Richard_McGhie · 1/10 · 8 December 2023]

I just finished watching the celebrity version of this load of drivel (because I just couldn't really care less to make myself suffer through the regular series) and, as you can probably tell by the way I'm starting this review, as much as I was willing to try and give this piece of dull twaddle a chance, I just couldn't ever get into it not just because the BBC had to basically set someone as above average at best (in terms of talent) as Rick Edwards up into their version of Ben Shephard but also mainly because they overcomplicated this format to such an insanely ridiculous extent that it just becomes almost unwatchable.

In conclusion, Impossible honestly could not have been a more apt descriptor of how heavily flawed, uninspired, incredibly frustrating to watch and ultimately boring this format truly is and it actually makes you question why the BBC allowed it to go on for 4 series, what gave them the idea to commission it in the first place and whether or not they've just given up in terms of creative, original and inspired gameshow ideas.

My overall rating for Impossible: 1/10.