Live from London, it’s Saturday evening.
Three and a half years after the deadline has revealed that Sky is recovering Saturday Night Live In the United Kingdom, the network belonging to Comcast officially handed over to the Greenlight series.
The remake, which will be presented in first in 2026, is the most prominent international version of the venerable late NBC evening show after remakes in China, Germany, Italy and South Korea.
The paid television broadcaster has not revealed members of the distribution for the show, but it will certainly be a warm ticket for the Comedy community of the United Kingdom.
Snl The creator Lorne Michaels will produce the British version and will be produced by his British production team from Broadway Video and Universal Television Alternative Studio.
The show will follow the same live format as the American version, which has just celebrated its 50th anniversary, with rotating hosts and musical performance.
It will be interesting to see what time the show will launch in the United Kingdom; In the United States, it is broadcast at 11:30 p.m. he / 8:30 am PT, but the British public tends not to watch television as late as the American public, it could therefore be broadcast earlier in the evening.
Snl is well known to fans of comedy in the United Kingdom, but he has no particularly highly publicized profile in Britain while Sky has only started to broadcast complete NBC versions Saturday Night Live In 2020, having really been available via clips on YouTube. The American version was briefly broadcast on ITV4 in the United Kingdom in 2006.
Cecile Frot-Coutaz, CEO of Sky Studios and content director, Sky, said: “For more than 50 years Saturday Night Live occupied a unique position in television and in our collective culture, reflecting and creating the global conversation, all under the masterful advice of Lorne Michaels. The show has discovered and fed on countless talents of comedy and musicals over the years and we are delighted to join in Lorne and Snl Team to bring an entirely British version of the program to the British public next year – all live from London on Saturday evening. »»
