(Photo by: Will Heath/NBC)
Saturday Night Live is ending its 48th season early. NBC has cancelled the last two episodes of the season due to the Writers’ Strike. Kieran Culkin (Succession) and Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus) were set to host the episodes. The network also pulled the May 6th episode which was to be hosted by SNL vet Pete Davidson.
Michael Che, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Punkie Johnson, Colin Jost, Ego Nwodim, Kenan Thompson, and Bowen Yang star in the weekly late-night variety show. Marcello Hernandez, James Austin Johnson, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, Sarah Sherman, and Devon Walker are featured players.
Deadline reports that Labrinth was the musical guest set to join Culkin, and Foo Fighters (in their 10th appearance) were going to close out the season with Coolidge on May 20th. The 18th episode which aired on April 18th featuring Ana de Armas has become the season 48 finale. This is the show’s smallest season since the pandemic shut down production in 2020.
An unnamed member of the cast said the following about ending the season of the NBC series early:
“We have to think about our crew too. I absolutely support the writers, and I want the writers to get what they deserve and need, but I don’t want our crew to be out of work. We can’t make this art without each other.”
The premiere date for Saturday Night Live season 49 will be announced later.
What do you think? Are you sad that NBC has ended SNL’s season early? Do you enjoy this late-night series?
Thank you.
Just cancel it, already
Figures… they end the season before they can have a musical guest that actually plays instruments and doesn’t just lipsync to autotuned garbage. That used to get you banned from SNL… anybody remember Ashley Simpson?? So that’s like 4 consecutive seasons of SNL that were cut short. We all know what happened in 2020, obviously. But the two seasons after that also ended early. And this season was averaging 2 episodes per month, even before the writers strike. Let’s face it…. Lorne is limping to the finish line. SNL is gone after it hits the 50 year mark in 2025.… Read more »
I watch sat nite live every sat. And it’s just not funny! Who writes the skits? Someone that can’t think of anything funny apparently. SNL cutting back two shows due to the strike is a good thing!
They need to cancel it for good.
Please cancelled for good awful well said terrible get worst ever years.
If you hate it, then why tf are you watching it??
If you feel you must watch it, DVR it and fast forward through all the garbage, or when the skit stops being funny after 2-7 minutes.
nice!