![]() Osman has made appearances on many panel shows, including Would I Lie to You?, Have I Got News for You, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, The Unbelievable Truth, QI, and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. But at least I still get him at weekends - and weekdays if you're watching on Challenge". I say that like it's a consolation - I'm going to miss the big man next to me Monday to Friday. His co-host Armstrong said, " Daytime television's loss is international best-selling crime fiction's gain. I can't thank everyone enough for 12 amazing years." He will be replaced by a series of guest presenters throughout the year, with a permanent successor being chosen later in 2022. I will miss everyone so much, but I'm thrilled I'll still be presenting the celebrity shows. In a statement, he said, "Pointless has been a joy from start to finish, working alongside my friend Alexander Armstrong, backed by the most wonderful team, and for the best viewers in the world. He is, however, continuing to appear on the spin off Pointless Celebrities. After his The Thursday Murder Club series received critical acclaim, he wished to spend more time as an author. On 8 April 2022, Osman announced he would be leaving Pointless, after 1,300 episodes across 30 series. In 2020, Osman created a spin off show titled House of Games Night, which aired on BBC One on Friday nights. Each weekday, four panelists compete in general knowledge tests in a variety of entertaining games. In 2017, Osman began hosting his show Richard Osman's House of Games. In April 2017 he appeared in the first episode of the third series of Murder in Successville. ![]() This involved polling with Twitter to find the best British biscuit. He appeared on the telethon Red Nose Day 2017 with The World Cup of Biscuits 2017. Since 2016, Osman has presented Child Genius on Channel 4. In February and December 2016, he presented Dragons' Den: Pitches to Riches, two special episodes which looked back over the past thirteen series of Dragons' Den on BBC Two. A second series was commissioned to begin airing in January 2017. Beginning in 2016, he was a team captain on the BBC Two comedy panel show Insert Name Here, hosted by Sue Perkins. From October 2014, he guest-presented numerous episodes of The One Show. A second series began airing in February 2015. In 2014, Osman began presenting a new BBC Two quiz show called Two Tribes. Osman guest hosted Have I Got News for You in October 2013. Having previously worked exclusively in behind-the-camera roles, Osman got the job as co-presenter/assistant when he pitched the idea for the show to a panel of BBC daytime heads, taking the role of the assistant in the demonstration. He created the show where he is jokingly known as Armstrong's "pointless friend". Since 2009, Osman has co-presented the BBC One teatime quiz show Pointless with host Alexander Armstrong. In 2005, he co-created and co-wrote the animated Channel 4 sitcom Bromwell High. Osman acted as script editor for BBC One's Total Wipeout and in 1999, created and wrote the Channel 4 sitcom Boyz Unlimited with David Walliams and Matt Lucas. As a producer of Deal or No Deal, it was Osman who revealed the identity of The Banker to be the show's producer Glenn Hugill. His other credits include Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Total Wipeout and the game show 24 Hour Quiz. He created the short-lived 2013 ITV gameshow Prize Island. He was the creative director at TV company Endemol UK, pitching the idea for Pointless to the BBC, becoming its co-presenter with his former university friend, Alexander Armstrong, when it launched in 2009. Osman began his career working as executive producer on British game shows, including Deal or No Deal, Channel 4 comedy panel game 8 Out of 10 Cats and satirical comedy 10 O'Clock Live. From 1989 to 1992, he studied Politics and Sociology at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary of Pointless co-presenter Alexander Armstrong, who read English. ![]() While still at school, he gained his first broadcasting experience, as a regular contributor to Turn It Up, an open-access music show which went out on Sunday evenings on BBC Radio Sussex (the show was also notable for giving early broadcast experience to BBC news journalist Jane Hill and radio DJ Jo Whiley). Osman attended Warden Park School in Cuckfield. ![]() His elder brother is musician Mat Osman, bass guitarist with the rock band Suede. His mother went to teacher training college, but before getting a full-time job, making money to raise her two children was a challenge. When Osman was nine years old, his father walked out on the family, which Osman says has created difficulty for the rest of his life. Osman was born in Billericay, Essex, to Brenda Wright and David Osman, and grew up in Cuckfield near Haywards Heath, West Sussex.
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