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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?
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