Meet the author: Richard Osman

Genial giant and quiz show host Richard Osman stumbled on the idea for his debut novel while visiting the mum of a friend in her retirement village.

The Thursday Murder Club tops e-book chart

Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) has charted top of the Bookstat e-book top 10 in its second week on sale, rising from third to score an across-formats double, after its hardback claimed the UK Official Top 50 number one through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market.

Thursday Murder Club hits charts top spot for 2nd week

Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has renewed its membership to the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week, selling 34,485 copies in its first full week on sale.

Richard Osman to write two more Thursday Murder Clubs

Richard Osman, whose first novel The Thursday Murder Club this week becomes the fastest selling adult crime debut since BookScan records began, has signed a deal with Viking for two more books in the series.

Osman is fastest out of the gate in books' bumper week

The Thursday Murder Club shifted just over 45,000 copies in three days on sale.

Richard Osman: 'I wish I were cooler but I'm not'

We've come to expect the unexpected from Richard Osman, the affable frontman on quiz shows Pointless and House of Games. Both are arguably two of the most inventive in their genre of the last decade, throwing, as they do, convention forcefully to the wind. True to form, Osman's latest project sees him remoulding again, but this time it's himself - from TV personality to crime novelist. Written in secret over 18 months, The Thursday Murder Club bears Osman's offbeat hallmark in that it's unusually set in a retirement village.

Osman: Spielberg making film of his debut novel

Richard Osman has revealed that legendary director Steven Spielberg has bought the film rights to his debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, about four English pensioner sleuths.

BBC axe Insert Name Here

Bosses say they have no plans to make any more episodes of the programme, which has run for four series.

There are panel shows galore tonight, and Pointless's Richard Osman hosts the most ambitious of all, assessing the best of the decade in the five categories of film, television show, song, celebrity and "new thing". Celebrity guests who will be arguing out their top choices include Jon Richardson, Lorraine Kelly, Alex Brooker and Rhianna Dhillon, while viewers can have their own say via a Twitter poll in the run-up to the show. Will Malala win celebrity of the decade, or will it be Kanye West?

Dave Gorman: Terms And Conditions Apply review

What saves Terms And Conditions Apply is the raw material that Gorman has found to project on to the giant PowerPoint screen that has come to define his comedy.