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We've got some big news to pass along regarding the milestone 50th season of NBC's Saturday Night Live Set to return on September 28th, Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim, and Jane Wickline will be joining the cast as new featured players In addition, Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker have been promoted to the main[...]

With NBC's Saturday Night Live set to kick off its milestone 50th season later this month, we've got some updates to pass along regarding director/writer Jason Reitman and writer Gil Kenan's Saturday Night Taking us back nearly 50 years to the final moments when NBC's long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series went from being a dream to[...]

In case you didn't get a chance to check out our ranking of NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49 shows, December 2, 2023's Emma Stone/Noah Kahan effort ranked at the top of the list In our original review, we touched upon how Stone no longer just gives herself over to SNL's writers and cast –[...]

In slightly more than a month, director/writer Jason Reitman and writer Gil Kenan will take us back nearly 50 years to the final moments when NBC's long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series Saturday Night Live went from being a dream to becoming a reality Earlier today, a mini-teaser was released that does an excellent job of[...]

Even though NBC's Saturday Night Live is less than a month away from kicking off its milestone 50th season, you only have a little more than a week to wait until SNL writers and "Weekend Update" anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che are back in our lives with some live comedy On September 12th at[...]

NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49 headed into the new year on a strong note, with SNL alum, actor & comedian Kate McKinnon and musical guest Billie Eilish helping the show's cast and writers offer a warm, fuzzy, funny, and slightly weird-in-all-the-right-ways stocking filled with sketches representing some of the best work of the season so[...]

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: AEW All In, Reacher, One Piece, #GeeksandNerdsforHarrisWalz, TWD: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol, and more!

After joining the long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series as a featured player in Season 46, Punkie Johnson would make the move to main player status beginning with the 48th season – and earlier this month, she announced that she would be leaving NBC's Saturday Night Live ahead of its upcoming 50th season Checking with SNL[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Foo Fighters–Donald Trump, Netflix's Wednesday, NBC's SNL, Max's Creature Commandos, Prime Video's Good Omens, Netflix's Terminator Zero, FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, AMC's Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Prime Video's Blade Runner 2099, Apple TV+'s Ted Lasso, San Francisco Giants/Naruto Shippuden, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol, Adult[...]

For last weekend's edition, we examined how host/stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze, musical guest Foo Fighters, and the cast and writers helped set the tone for what worked best during this past season with the third episode.  So it seems only fitting (especially with NBC repeating the episode of Saturday Night Live tonight) that this weekend's[...]

UPDATE: Foo Fighters rep says "appropriate actions are being taken" after the unauthorized use of "My Hero" by the Trump/Vance campaign.

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? NBC's Saturday Night Live, Crunchyroll's Tower of God, The Animation Guild/AMPTP, Max's Peacemaker, Comedy Central's The Daily Show, HBO's True Detective: Night Country, FX's Alien: Earth, Paramount+'s Evil, TNT's AEW Rampage, HBO's The Last of Us, Disney Channel's Gravity Falls, Crunchyroll's Attack on Titan, BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who, and more! Images/Screencaps: The Animation Guild, Disney Channel, FX Networks,[...]

NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49 had a decently solid opening back in October 2023, with SNL alum Pete Davidson and musical guest Ice Spice kicking things off After that, it was host/musical guest Bad Bunny – and things were starting to get a wee bit concerning Having taken the past two weeks off while[...]

Along with a new poster for Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan's Saturday Night, the Sony Pictures film will have its world premiere at TIFF 2024.

Even though Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang has been on-screen since 2019 (Season 45), he was first hired as a staff writer in the 44th season (September 2018) That means we have six seasons' worth of hosts to check out – but Yang let it slip that it was a male host, so we[...]

Tim Walz when the 50th season of NBC's Saturday Night Live kicks off on September 28th, Rudolph is sharing what it was like when VP Harris became the presumed (and now declared) nominee and everyone on social media began dropping Rudolph's name "It was wild!" Rudolph shared during an interview with Variety, showcasing that she is nominated[...]

Their most famous exploits outside of the NFL field, respectively, were Manning's hosting stint on Saturday Night Live in 2007 and the more recent 2024 Roast of Tom Brady on Netflix Seth Meyers, who hosts Late Night on NBC, reflected on when Manning approached him during his days as an SNL writer and cast member[...]

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: The Rookie, Countdown, SEAL Team, Cartoon Network, Stranger Things, The Diplomat, Doctor Who, Euphoria & more!

Based on Reitman and Kenan's interviews with the living cast, writers, and crew about the launch of Saturday Night Live, the film is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the show's very first broadcast Set for a theatrical release on October 11th, we're getting[...]

Vance during this fall's POTUS election, a lot of folks hit social media to let NBC's Saturday Night Live EP Lorne Michaels and SNL's writers know that they thought Steve Martin (Onlu Murders in the Building) would be a no-brainer as Gov Walz, standing beside SNL icon and comedy goddess Maya Rudolph's VP Harris for[...]

Ego Nwodim is fortunate to be in such a nurturing environment as Saturday Night Live, initially as a featured player in 2018 before getting elevated to a full-time cast member in 2020 Among her memorable characters include Lisa from Temecula, Laura Winslow, L'evanka Trump, and Edith Puthie She's also amassed an impressive array of impressions,[...]

Not long after it was announced, a whole lot of folks (us included) put the word out there to NBC's Saturday Night Live EP Lorne Michaels and SNL's writers that Steve Martin (Onlu Murders in the Building) would be a perfect Gov Walz to have standing beside SNL icon and comedy goddess Maya Rudolph's VP[...]

One thing Trump and Vance won't be able to run away from is NBC's Saturday Night Live With this being an election year and the show's milestone 50th season, you know EP Lorne Michaels and SNL's writers are going to have some plans in play In fact, we learned late last month that SNL icon[...]

A day after learning that Saturday Night Live star Punkie Johnson would be departing the long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series on Thursday, SNL star Molly Kearney has confirmed that they will also be departing the show ahead of its milestone 50th season after two seasons "Yall, that's a wrap on my time on SNL! Reflecting[...]

This is the part of the Saturday Night Live off-season that we're not a big fan of at all Taking to Instagram to make it official after addressing the matter during a comedy show on Wednesday night, SNL star Punkie Johnson confirmed that they would not be returning to NBC's long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series[...]

Earlier this month, we wondered if NBC's Saturday Night Live EP Lorne Michaels had already given SNL icon and comedy goddess Maya Rudolph a call after the news hit that President Joseph Biden had stepped down as the Democrats' nominee for the 2024 POTUS race and that Vice-President Kamala Harris was looking to be (and now[...]

Though the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics have just gotten underway (running from July 26th to August 11th – yup, 16 days), our focus is already on the fall season – and in this case, the upcoming jaw-dropping 50th season of NBC's Saturday Night Live With NBCUniversal spending a ton of cash for the rights to air[...]

Before we get to really focus on the upcoming jaw-dropping 50th season of NBC's Saturday Night Live, there's the not-so-small matter of the 2024 Summer Olympics to get through Running from July 26th to August 11th – yup, 16 days – viewers can expect to see Olympics coverage on pretty much anything and everything that[...]

Does anyone else get the feeling that comedy goddess Maya Rudolph's been getting a ton of attention from NBC's Saturday Night Live EP Lorne Michaels since the big news broke earlier today? Of course, we're talking about the news that President Joe Biden stepping down as the Democrats' nominee for the 2024 POTUS race, endorsing[...]

Welcome to a new edition of SNL Second-Guessing, our weekend series where we look back on NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49 shows (depending on what's being repeated during the between-seasons break) to see if we missed anything the first time around, to shine a spotlight on standout sketches that deserve more love, or to[...]