“Live from London, it’s Saturday Night” is a phrase you’re going to start out listening to on a weekly foundation subsequent yr.
Variety stories that Sky Studios is engaged on a British adaptation of NBC’s longrunning Saturday Night Live sketch sequence. Like its American counterpart and former worldwide riffs on the sequence, Saturday Night Live UK will characteristic a mix of comedy, political commentary, music, and a lineup of visitor hosts. The new adaptation will even be overseen by SNL creator Lorne Michaels, whose Broadway Video firm will produce the present. In an announcement about SNL UK, Sky CEO Cecile Frot-Coutaz pointed to Michaels’ “masterful comedic steerage” as one of many causes the unique sequence has had such a long-lasting cultural influence.
“The present has found and nurtured numerous comedy and musical abilities through the years and we’re thrilled to be partnering with Lorne and the SNL crew to convey an all-British model of the present to UK audiences subsequent yr – all reside from London on Saturday night time,” Frot-Coutaz mentioned.
Sky has but to announce SNL UK’s premiere date, its hosts, or musical visitors. There’s additionally no phrase on who the present’s common gamers can be, however Sky says we are able to anticipate to see “a core solid of the funniest British comedians round.”
