Why Did Richard Osman Quit BBC Pointless?

Richard Osman is leaving daytime Pointless, to concentrate on writing, although he will still be doing the celebrity shows and ‘HouseOfGames’.

“It has been the GREATEST pleasure and I can’t wait to start watching as a viewer”, Osman said when he announced his exit from the show.

Osman has presented the BBC Two quiz shows Two Tribes and Richard Osman’s House of Games and served as a team captain on the comedy panel shows Insert Name Here and The Fake News Show. He has made appearances on many British panel shows.

Osman worked at Hat Trick Productions alongside Ben Smith before becoming creative director of the television production company Endemol UK, producing shows including Prize Island for ITV and Deal or No Deal for Channel 4.

He is the author of the crime novels The Thursday Murder Club (2020) and The Man Who Died Twice (2021).

Viking Press, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, acquired the rights to Osman’s debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, and one other novel, for a seven-figure sum in a 10-publisher auction in 2019.

It was said that his first book would be published in autumn 2020, and the second the following year, as part of a classic crime series.

His debut crime novel’s release date was announced as 3 September 2020.