The Birthday Cake Game
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Host
Broadcast
Remarkable Television (part of BanijayEndemolShine) for Radio 4, 31 August 2021 to present
Synopsis
How old is a famous person?
Richard Osman (born 28 November 1970) invites three celebrities into the studio. He'll ask them about other famous people who celebrate their birthday in the coming week, specifically how old the star is. Whichever celeb can best guess the ages wins a Colin the Caterpillar generic birthday cake.
It's a very slight format, almost as thin as Simon Mayo's Dead or Alive. Along the way, there are anecdotes about the celebrities, and stories from their life, an expanded version of the chat from Richard's House of Games (3).
The show began life as the podcast The Birthday Game in late 2019. After a successful launch series (some people talked about it, and downloads were in the thousands, which is enough to make any podcast a hit), Radio 4 picked up the format for broadcast.
Inventor
Richard Osman himself.
Trivia
The Birthday Game podcast was produced by Remarkable Television (an EndemolShine company), and was published 2 September - 16 December 2019 (that's 16 episodes in 1 series). All episodes were removed from the internet during 2020.