Dwell from London, it’s Saturday Evening.
Three and a half years after Deadline revealed Sky was remaking Saturday Evening Dwell within the UK, the Comcast-owned community formally handed the collection a greenlight.
The remake, which is able to premiere in 2026, is probably the most high-profile worldwide model of the venerable NBC late-night present after remakes in China, Germany, Italy and South Korea.
The pay-TV broadcaster has not revealed forged members for the present however it’ll definitely be a scorching ticket for the UK’s comedy neighborhood.
SNL creator Lorne Michaels will exec produce the UK model and it is going to be produced by his Broadway Video and Common Tv Various Studio’s UK manufacturing group.
The present will observe the identical dwell format because the U.S. model, which simply celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, with rotating hosts and musical performances.
Will probably be attention-grabbing to see what time the present launches within the UK; within the U.S. it airs at 11:30pm ET / 8:30pm PT, however British audiences have a tendency to not watch tv fairly as late as American audiences so it could effectively air earlier within the night.
SNL is well-known to comedy followers within the UK nevertheless it doesn’t have a very high-profile in Britain as Sky solely started airing full variations of NBC’s Saturday Evening Dwell in 2020, having solely actually been obtainable through clips on YouTube. The U.S. model did air briefly on ITV4 within the UK in 2006.
Cecile Frot-Coutaz, CEO of Sky Studios and Chief Content material Officer, Sky, stated, “For over 50 years Saturday Evening Dwell has held a singular place in TV and in our collective tradition, reflecting and creating the worldwide dialog all underneath the masterful comedic steering of Lorne Michaels. The present has found and nurtured numerous comedy and musical skills through the years and we’re thrilled to be partnering with Lorne and the SNL group to convey an all-British model of the present to UK audiences subsequent 12 months – all dwell from London on Saturday evening.”
