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One problem: looks like it was made before the NBC/Trump debate news broke… so we're guessing Alec Baldwin will be popping up? Saturday Night Live's 46th season includes Beck Bennett, Aidy Bryant, Michael Che, Pete Davidson, Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Colin Jost, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat, Kyle Mooney, Ego Nwodim, Chris Redd, Cecily Strong,[...]

It's Trump's abused and enabled partner NBCU (or NBC, NBC News, etc.,) that's been making that little vein near my right eye throb with righteous indignation since they decided to wade into Presidential Debates debate with money signs in their eyes and their hat out for a fat payday. Saturday Night Live Season 46 spoofed the[...]

With less than two weeks to go until NBC and creator Dan Fogelman's award-winning This Is Us returns for a fifth season (moved up from November 10 to October 27) with a two-hour season premiere, fans are getting a fresh first-look at the next chapter in The Pearsons' lives Viewers were already teased/warned going the season[...]

Image courtesy of NBC. Why Celebrity Guests Hurt "Saturday Night Live" Cast Long Term Make no mistake, political casting for "figures" are all over the place in recent years with Matt Damon playing then-SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh or Brad Pitt playing infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci It just seems more like current cast members who are[...]

The show Hannibal, running for 3 seasons on NBC from 2013-2015, focuses on the introduction of a character by the name of Will Graham who, as a behavioral analyst, reluctantly assists the FBI with a case involving murdered young women. A surreal courtroom scene from Hannibal Source: NBC Eventually, the assistance of a seemingly innocent Dr[...]

One can also make quite the argument for Rainn Wilson, who played Jim's (Krasinski) rival and Michael's (Carell) second-in-command, Dwight Schrute on the long-running NBC comedy While promoting his latest Amazon series Utopia, the actor spoke with The Hollywood Reporter to reflect on the time on the series and why he avoids taking similar roles. Rainn[...]

After a solid start to its 46th season, NBC's Saturday Night Live is heading into its second of five live episodes in a row- but that didn't mean there weren't going to be some bumps along the way Earlier this week, viewers learned that musical artist Morgan Wallen had been cut from this week's episode[...]

NBC's Saturday Night Live kicked off its 46th season and its return to Studio 8H in a strong way this weekend (with points to Michael Che and Colin Jost's "Weekend Update" and Megan Thee Stallion for being the season-opener MVPs) Another highlight for us was Jim Carrey's (Kidding) debut as Joe Biden, as he took on[...]

NBC's Saturday Night Live had a huge spotlight on it heading into its 46th season-opener After the previous season ended with a series of COVID-inspired "SNL@Home" episodes, this weekend saw the long-running sketch comedy/music series returning to Studio 8 H in Rockefeller Center Why was that particularly special? Because SNL was going with a series[...]

Hell, if anything it's one of the most subversive comedies in the past thirty years so I'm glad to see Charlie Day and Rob McElhenney flexing their political muscles more. Young Rock: Dwayne Johnson Reveals Cast for Upcoming NBC Comedy Series: Two thoughts: if this doesn't scream "long-term political aspirations" (just like his endorsement of Joe[...]

For the BTS Army, all good things came to an end Friday night with NBC's The Tonight Show and Jimmy Fallon wrapping up "BTS Week" in grand fashion Earlier in the week, RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook performing a stripped-down take on "Dynamite" with Fallon and The Roots, while John Cena (The[...]

Just because NBC's Saturday Night Live has a ton of attention on it heading into Saturday's 46th season premiere this Saturday doesn't mean the long-running sketch comedy/variety series doesn't have one eye looking to the future With Chris Rock and Megan Thee Stallion taking the stage at Studio 8H for the SNL kick-off, we can[...]

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the Dick Wolf spinoff series is currently without a showrunner, with Matt Olmstead (NBC's "Chicago" franchise) exiting the project, with sources saying that difficulties in developing the series creatively being the reason Though the series is still expected to debut "sometime during the 2020-21 broadcast season," no production timeframe[...]

In just a little over a week, NBC's Saturday Night Live is leaving the confines of home to head back (safely) to Studio 8H and back onto our screens (with October 3rd's 46th season premiere being the first of five new episodes) To say they want to start off the season strong would be an understatement,[...]

NBC's The Tonight Show and Jimmy Fallon have put together a pretty sweet "BTS Week" for the BTS Army members around the world, with the late-night talk/variety show going three-for-three Wednesday night To keep your scorecards up-to-speed, here's how the week's looked so far. On Monday, RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook kicked[...]

As much as we enjoyed and appreciated NBC's Saturday Night Live and its "@Home editions," we would be lying if we said we weren't excited to see the gang heading back (safely) to Studio 8H on October 3rd We're curious to see how the show will be able to give a sense of "live" with[...]

At the beginning of 2020 (which feels like ten years ago), Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (WWE superstar, Ballers, The Titan Games, Jumanji: The Next Level) and NBC announced a straight-to-series order for Young Rock, and now we're learning who's been tapped to play Johnson and his family during the early, formative years of the WWE star-turned-movie-star-and-more's[...]

Peacock's true-crime limited series Dr. Death, about a physician who kills patients in surgery, announced its all-female team of directors.

With NBC's Saturday Night Live leaving the "@Home editions" behind and returning to Studio 8H for its 46th season on October 3rd (with SNL alumnus Chris Rock hosting and musical artist Megan Thee Stallion performing), the biggest question people have been asking is how are they going to pull together a studio audience Would it be[...]

NBC's Saturday Night Live is leaving the "home editions" behind and returning to Studio 8H to kick off its 46th season on October 3rd (the first of the month's five planned episodes), and it's doing so in style We have a new Joe Biden, three new featured players, SNL alumnus Chris Rock (Fargo) taking over[...]

October starts off with a significant addition to the cast list of Saturday Night Live for the premiere of its' 46th season on NBC Being added to the cast as a featured player is southern comedian, Punkie Johnson What is so important about this news, not only to the series itself but also for Punkie,[...]

The obvious question first: with the show returning with a live studio audience, what pool will the audience be selected from the general public or from family/staff from NBC and SNL? The answer's still being worked on: "That's all still being sorted out." A look at who's hosting and the musical performance for Saturday Night Live[...]

When NBC's Saturday Night Live returns to Studio 8H to kick off its 46th season on October 3rd (kicking off the first of the month's five episodes), it does so with a friendly face at the hosting controls and one of the hottest rappers today ready to own the stage On Thursday, SNL announced that alumnus[...]

Sorkin will write original material for the special, with Schlamme serving as production director. The West Wing (Image: NBCUniversal) With the event expected to film early next month and with us already in the bottom-half of September, it's no surprise that work would be getting underway Yet that didn't take away from the coolness that came with[...]

Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon played various figures of both political parties on the long-running NBC series One of the figures she is most fond of is Supreme Court Justice, the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed at the age of 87 on September 18 "For so many of us, Justice Ginsburg was a[...]

NBC's Saturday Night Live is already making news and the series is still weeks away from its 46th season return to Studio 8H (and our screens) on October 3rd (kicking off the first of the month's five episodes) SNL guru Lorne Michaels revealed that not only would Alec Baldwin be returning as Donald Trump, but[...]

When NBC's Saturday Night Live kicks off its 46th season back in Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center on October 3 (airing live at 11:30 p.m ET / 8:30 p.m PT), they're going to have a very familiar face joining them in the role of Vice-President Joe Biden No, not Jason Sudeikis– it's Jim Carrey (Kidding,[...]

Obi-Wan star Ewan McGregor channeled his inner Evel Knievel to prove to Jimmy Fallon that he's ready for any challenge- no matter how small.

Image courtesy of NBC Universal   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) on Sep 10, 2020 at 10:01am PDT In late May, the SNL cast was given a moment to reflect back on the three "SNL@Home" shows and how they came to be From what it was like first hearing the news[...]

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