Posted: Sunday 21st February 2010 at 1:33pm by Paul
Tina Fey will return to Saturday Night Live as guest host.
The former regular cast member of SNL will be back in April and it’s thought she might reprise her role as Sarah Palin, which brought her huge recognition throughout the US elections.
When asked about returning to SNL as the former Governor of Alaska she said “It’s inevitable that we’ll try it, at least… we’ll see if it makes it to air”.
Yahoo! News – “You betcha: Fey’s ‘SNL’ return as Palin is likely”
Posted: Monday 21st September 2009 at 9:17am by Paul
The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards took place in Los Angeles last night. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart won the award for “Best Variety, Music or Comedy Series” & the award for “Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series”. Justin Timberlake won the award for “Best Guest Actor, Comedy” for hosting Saturday Night Live. The award for “Best Guest Actress, Comedy” went to Tina Fey for her work on Saturday Night Live (particularly for her Sarah Palin impersonation).
Wikipedia – “61st Primetime Emmy Awards”
Official 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards website – Nominees & Winners
Examiner.com – “Complete List of Emmy Winners (and My Reactions)”
Digital Spy – “Emmy Awards 2009: The Winners”
Posted: Saturday 1st August 2009 at 5:02pm by Paul
Amy Poehler will be returning to Saturday Night Live for two shows in September.
Amy – who left the show in December – will “appear in two prime-time specials planned for the fall”, The New York Times reports.
The specials will air on the 17th September and the 24th September (called Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Thursday). Amy briefly returned to the show in May in SNL’s season finale.
NY Times – “Have a Pleasant Tomorrow: Amy Poehler Plans ‘Weekend Update’ Return”
Posted: Friday 24th July 2009 at 10:01am by Paul
The nominations for the 2009 Emmy Awards have been announced.
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Posted: Saturday 27th June 2009 at 5:41pm by Paul
NBC have officially announced their fall lineup.
It’s been previously said The Jay Leno Show will start on the 14th September, and this has now been confirmed in this fall lineup release. Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday will start on the 17th September.
The Jay Leno Show will be stripped across the week Monday-Friday at 10pm in a one-hour timeslot. Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday will air every Thursday night at 8pm in a 30-minute timeslot.
There are some preview videos for The Jay Leno Show, but they only seem to be available for people in the US.
NBC – Fall Preview 2009/2010
Posted: Saturday 22nd November 2008 at 4:45pm by Paul
We’ve started a new petition. This is a petition to show there’s a fanbase for Saturday Night Live in the UK and with a view to get the show back on UK television on Freeview, cable or satellite. Saturday Night Live has been aired on UK television in the past but channels seem to shunt it around the schedules every week. It recently aired on ITV4, but has also appeared on Paramount Comedy in the past.
Especially following the US Elections in 2008, the show gained a huge following in America and continues to do so. Saturday Night Live would be hugly popular in the UK as well, if it was shown on a channel at a reasonable time (ITV4 used to air it at ridiculously late times at night / the early hours of the morning), which was the main reason why no one was watching it – it was on too late.
Click here to visit our Petitions page.
Posted: Saturday 8th November 2008 at 3:47pm by Paul
The Saturday Night Live 2-hour special that aired on NBC on Monday (the eve before Election Day in the US) was a huge ratings success. The special programme “was seen by 14.4 million people” according to Journal Now, and eNews 2.0 reports “according to Nielsen estimations, NBC won most viewers with ages between 18 and 49″.
The Monday night show had impressions by Amy Poehler (as Hillary Clinton), Fred Armisen (as Barack Obama) and Darrell Hammond (as John McCain). The real Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin were also on the show introducing classic SNL clips, etc.
JournalNow.com asks “what will Saturday Night Live do without the 2008 presidential election to mock?”. Good question.
Hulu.com – Clips from the SNL Presidential Bash 2008 (the videos work in the UK)
Journal Now – “Election’s end may collapse SNL’s…readiness for prime time”
eNews 2.0 – “Obama Won; and So Did NBC with “SNL””
Posted: Monday 3rd November 2008 at 1:02pm by Paul
Presidential candidate John McCain made an appearance on Saturday Night Live last Saturday (1st November).
TV Guide’s review of the episode says “They wasted no time putting McCain to use, as he was joined by Tina as Palin (!) to make their last-minute plea to voters while hawking products on QVC. Apparently the campaign, as Tina points out, spent a little too much money on Palin’s clothes and couldn’t afford to match Sen. Obama’s three-network infomercial”.
Actor Ben Affleck was the guest host on the show and American Idol star David Cook performed.
There is a two hour special show tonight (3rd November) on the eve before the US Election. The two hour special is called the SNL Presidential Bash 2008 and special guests will make appearances on the show. The two hour special will air at 9/8c on Monday 3rd November on NBC.
TV Guide – “SNL Episode Recap: Ben Affleck Hosts, David Cook Performs”
NBC.com – Saturday Night Live – “McCain QVC Open” (Video clip)
