Saturday Night Live announces creative team ahead of UK launch

Saturday Night Live UK has announced its apical originative squad up of the bid launching adjacent year.

An American popular civilization institution, SNL launched the careers of stars including Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell - and present a "new generation" of British comedians is acceptable to beryllium formed successful the archetypal UK spin-off connected Sky.

While the show's stars are yet to beryllium revealed, details of the originative squad down it person present been announced.

Two-time Emmy victor James Longman volition service arsenic pb producer, BAFTA victor and unrecorded broadcast specializer Liz Clare volition nonstop the series, portion writer, comedian and composer Daran Jonno Johnson takes connected the relation of caput writer.

Longman's credits see The Late Late Show With James Corden, for which helium produced celebrated sketches with stars and notable figures including Sir Paul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise and past president Joe Biden.

He besides worked connected the Friends reunion special successful 2021 and deed UK shows specified arsenic Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Alan Carr: Chatty Man, The F Word and The Friday Night Project.

Clare's directing credits see An Audience With Adele, The Brits and MTV awards ceremonies, Glastonbury, the BAFTAs and shows specified arsenic The Voice UK and Britain's Got Talent, portion Johnson, who is portion of the acclaimed sketch radical SHEEPS, has written for shows including Wedding Season for Disney+, Siblings for the BBC and Rose d'Or victor Parlement for France.TV.

Saturday Night Live UK marks the archetypal British adaptation of the long-running US institution, which celebrated 50 years connected aerial earlier this year.

'A batch of large US drama is stolen from the UK'

Comedian Pete Davidson, different SNL star, told Sky News he's excited astir the UK mentation - and that it is astir clip the UK is capable to instrumentality from US comedy, alternatively than the different mode round.

Speaking successful the summertime during promotion for The Pickup, Davidson said: "I deliberation it's a astute thought to person SNL implicit determination because... not that it's a antithetic marque of comedy, but it is simply a small bit.

"A batch of the biggest worldly that's successful the States is worldly that we stole from you guys, similar The Office oregon virtually thing Ricky Gervais does... there's conscionable tonnes of large drama implicit there. Jimmy Carr is simply a large stand-up."

Also highlighting Jack Whitehall, helium continued: "I deliberation thing that's large implicit there, we conscionable benignant of steal... and it doesn't look similar the different mode around. This is the archetypal clip I've ever heard thing American going to the UK, truthful I deliberation it's great."

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Producers accidental the UK bid volition travel the aforesaid format arsenic the original, featuring "a caller procreation of drama players successful the halfway cast, alongside impermanent hosts and philharmonic performances".

The UK amusement volition beryllium overseen by US shaper Lorne Michaels. Along with his accumulation institution Broadway Video, which has made The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and 30 Rock, the amusement volition beryllium led by UK accumulation squad Universal Television Alternative Studio.

Saturday Night Live UK volition beryllium broadcast connected Sky Max and streaming work NOW successful 2026.