Scot Squad creator Joel Hullait has taken aim at BBC's Pointless on social media after one of the actors appeared as a guest on the show and had to explain who he was to presenter Alexander Armstrong. 

Comedy star Chris Forbes, who plays PC Charlie MacIntosh on the spoof sketch show about a fictional Scottish police and his fiancee Eleanor appeared on an episode of the BBC one quiz show which was aired yesterday. 

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Armstrong asked Chris about his career and questioned the stand up about which company he works for, to which he answered, "BBC Scotland."

Joel and several other Scottish viewers were outraged by the fact host, Alexander Armstrong, had to ask who Chris was, despite them both appearing on the same network.

Joe voiced his disappointment with the show's researchers on Twitter and began to highlight several interesting statistics about Pointless and Scot Squad.

Joe said: "I know it's only a small thing but it's annoying me how nobody on a production this big bothered to Google the show. The BBC don't do themselves any favours when it comes to making Scottish audiences feel valued. This sort of thing just reinforces the cultural division.

"I've compiled some data about Scot Squad for the people who work on @TVsPointless.

"This might prevent a situation where the host @XanderArmstrong is on the BBC, talking about one of the broadcaster's own shows as if it's some sort of amdram group.

"Pointless is available to a TV population 1300% higher than Scot Squad. Yet the official Facebook pages of Scot Squad and Pointless have almost the exact same number of followers (23,105 v 23,849)

"Scot Squad has huge reach for the BBC on digital platforms. Not just via @BBCScotland, but for the broadcaster as a whole. The most recent clip from the series received over 11million views when posted from the @BBC's primary social media accounts."

Joe added: "I'm not slating Pointless. It's a very successful show. But if the BBC wants audiences outside of London to feel like they're important to the broadcaster then it might want to make sure it doesn't talk down shows from the nations and regions on it's own channels.

"This stuff is important if the BBC wants to survive. Audience satisfaction numbers in Scotland are lower than everywhere else.

"This kind of thing does not make a large chunk of your licence-payer base feel included."

Maybe in future Pointless researches should focus a little more on the not so pointless information.