LONDON (AP) — Stay from London, it’s Saturday evening!
Wait, London? You heard that appropriately. “Saturday Night time Stay” introduced Thursday that it plans to launch a British model of the US sketch comedy present that’s celebrating its fiftieth anniversary throughout the pond.
The UK model, produced with Sky Studios, can have a British solid of comedians — to be introduced later — and comply with the identical format with well-known visitor hosts and star musical acts.
“SNL” creator Lorne Michaels would be the govt producer of “Saturday Night time Stay UK,” whereas staying in the identical position with the present on NBC in New York.
“For over 50 years ‘Saturday Night time Stay’ has held a singular place in TV and in our collective tradition, reflecting and creating the worldwide dialog, all beneath the masterful comedic steering of Lorne Michaels,” mentioned Cecile Frot-Coutaz, chief govt of Sky Studios.
“We’re thrilled to be partnering with Lorne and the ‘SNL’ group to deliver an all-British model of the present to UK audiences subsequent 12 months — all dwell from London on Saturday evening.”
The long-established present commonly roasts the highly effective.
US President Donald Trump and tech titan Elon Musk have been skewered these days, and each have beforehand hosted the 90-minute present.
“SNL” airs dwell at 11:30 p.m. ET from a studio at Rockefeller Plaza and usually opens with a sketch that wraps because the actors flip to the digicam, break character and announce, “Stay from New York, it’s Saturday evening!”
Its mixture of political satire, zany skits, pretend commercials, comedian music movies and its common “Weekend Replace” spoof on the information has launched the careers of many comedians and actors.
Its roster of well-known solid members embrace the late John Belushi, Invoice Murray, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Kenan Thompson and Kate McKinnon.
Efforts to launch “SNL” in different international locations, equivalent to France, Japan and Italy, have usually been short-lived not although a model of the present stays on the air in South Korea.
