Adam Hills has claimed ‘The Last Leg’ has been cut due to "advertising revenue".
Adam Hills thinks advertising is to blame for The Last Leg being cut
The 52-year-old comedian - who previously addressed news that Channel 4 has decided to reduce the next season of the Friday night topical comedy show’s run by four episodes - suggested the change is due to the “cost of living” crisis as advertisers are having to scale back their budgets.
He told ‘The Big Jim Show’ podcast: “They have just cut four episodes of The Last Leg from us because they’re not getting the advertising revenue, because people aren’t buying.”
He also put the blame on the way audiences took "a while to come back".
He added: “It took a while for audiences to remember how to be audiences, it took them a while to come back.
"It then started to hit, and I think the cost of living thing has then stopped people again.”
Adam - who helmed the first episode of its 28th season with regular co-hosts Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker, 39 - recently joked on social media that their show was suited to “losing a few bits”.
He tweeted: “If ever there’s a show that can cope with losing a few bits, it’s ours."
Adam has previously described his show as "three guys with four legs talking about the week", as he was born without a right foot, while comedian Alex had his right leg amputated when he was a baby.
The new series of 'The Last Leg' returned on Friday (30.06.23) and Adam shocked viewers with a brutal joke one week after it was confirmed the missing Titan submersible imploded during an expedition to see the wreck of the Titanic, with five people losing their lives.
He made a joke while chatting about The Wagner's attack on Vladimir Putin's authority, claiming "it's hard to know who to cheer for".
He quipped: "This is like the time Jeremy Clarkson punched Piers Morgan. This is like Elon Musk taking on Mark Zuckerberg in a cage fight.
"Most of the planet is thinking, 'Yeah instead of a cage, can it be a submarine?' "
The audience weren't quite sure how to react, but Adam decided to double down.
He added: "Yeah okay, probably shouldn’t have gone there… but nor should they."
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