The popular afternoon quiz series has been running for 17 seasons and first began back in 2009, when it launched on BBC Two.
Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Richard opened up about the future of the programme and if he’d stay on without his friend and co-star, 47.
When asked if he would continue on if the actor left, the 46-year-old commented: “I think that he wouldn’t leave… we do occasionally talk about how it might end, and it’d be nice if it did end with us both leaving together.”
The television producer went on: “We are loyal to each other and we talk a lot about work loads and commitments, but we are very careful with Pointless and we do try and nurture it. It’s given us an awful lot and we owe it a lot.”
Richard, who met Alexander while at Cambridge University, said the pair will do Pointless for as long as the BBC want it.
“They have been so supportive of it,” he said. “They’ve really looked after it, nurtured it, looked after us… the show is made on a shoestring and always has been.
“They do it with such grace and intelligence, we are fiercely loyal to them. It won’t go on forever, because nothing does, but for as long as it does we will be there I suspect. We’ve got a good few years left in us.”
Meanwhile, as well as his Pointless commitments, Richard is also launching new quiz series House Of Games next week.
Discussing his latest project, which will see two celebrity teams go head-to-head in all manner of challenges, he added: “It’s something I’ve wanted to do for ages. I’m known as a quiz show presenter but I’ve always been a producer, and the real stars of quizzes are the question-setters.
“I thought, lets do a show that is dedicated to us coming up with really fun and interesting ways of asking questions. They have no idea what they will be, they are all competitive.”
Richard Osman’s House Of Games starts tomorrow on BBC Two at 6pm.
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