[Gary Baldy]

The Lateish Show is coming back, it has already been confirmed there will be at least a Christmas special for 2023

The Last Leg is now the bread and butter business for Channel 4 on a Friday night along with Gogglebox - in the same way A Question of Sport and Have I Got News For You are bread and butter business for Friday night BBC One - you can argue that all of these shows have declined in content, but for both channels, they are doing reasonably well and are stable fixtures which is what some viewers want in their lives these days

Last Leg is so tired now though- breath of fresh air when it started, still brilliant in the Paralympic shows but the regular weekly show needs to be put out of its misery.  At least HIGNFY and QOS have ever changing guests, Last Leg always pulls the guests from the same pool and even then it’s still only Adam, Josh and Alex that get a word in- it was much better in the early days with one guest per show rather the current 2 per show (and occasionally more) format. I also think that people watch comedy as an escape from the toxic reality of the news- Last Leg just reminds them of it and puts a real downer on things. HIGNFY manages to avoid this by just having gag after gag after gag, but Last Leg sometimes does the “Adam gets preachy” bits which I’m not a fan of, and then all the “Rishi Sunak is a DICK!” every week- it’s just lazy comedy at this point and I think they’ve clearly been phoning it in for a few years now.