Saturday Night Live Will launch a British spin-off in 2026, confirmed Sky. The creator of the show Lorne Michaels will produce the show, recruiting an entirely British distribution of actors, musical guests and celebrity hosts to recreate the “live and fast style which made the spectacle a cultural phenomenon”, as Sky said in the announcement. The London -based program will naturally air live on Saturday evening, via Sky Max and now TV.
The British Snl would have been in the work in 2021, but the news of today is the first confirmation that the plans progress. The British Broadway Video and Universal Television Studio Broadway production team will produce the program; More details will be announced in the coming months. Snl recently celebrated its 50th birthday with SNL50: the return concertWith David Byrne, Lady Gaga, Devo, the surviving members of Nirvana, and many others.
