SNL UK

[MarkGoldsmith]

For any SNL fans Sky have just announced they are producing a SNL UK show in 2026. Will be quite interesting to see how the show translates over here.

https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/-live-from-london-it-s-saturday-night-

[BenJoBanjo]

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@MarkGoldsmith wrote:

For any SNL fans Sky have just announced they are producing a SNL UK show in 2026. Will be quite interesting to see how the show translates over here.

https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/-live-from-london-it-s-saturday-night-

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Badly, I suspect. 

It's such a unique and very American brand that any UK version is never really going to be the same show. It'll just be a vague mash-up of Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross, The Last Leg, and The Mash Report and I can't see it lasting longer than one series. 

[KevNewMedia]

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@MarkGoldsmith wrote:

For any SNL fans Sky have just announced they are producing a SNL UK show in 2026. Will be quite interesting to see how the show translates over here.

https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/-live-from-london-it-s-saturday-night-

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I agree, it will be interesting to see how it pans out, given the differences between the US & UK in comedy terms.

[ZyloKai]

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@MarkGoldsmith wrote:

For any SNL fans Sky have just announced they are producing a SNL UK show in 2026. Will be quite interesting to see how the show translates over here.

https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/-live-from-london-it-s-saturday-night-

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I don't think it will translate, these live shows don't really do well over here. 

Look at "The Late Late show with James Corden", that did really bad over here. Also look at Total Request Live / TRL on MTV in the 2000s, that only lasted a year or so. 

[Mr+Ripley]

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@BenJoBanjo wrote:

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@MarkGoldsmith wrote:

For any SNL fans Sky have just announced they are producing a SNL UK show in 2026. Will be quite interesting to see how the show translates over here.

https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/-live-from-london-it-s-saturday-night-

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Badly, I suspect. 

It's such a unique and very American brand that any UK version is never really going to be the same show. It'll just be a vague mash-up of Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross, The Last Leg, and The Mash Report and I can't see it lasting longer than one series. 

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  Is it " unique " though? Ever heard of Ben Elton? This from his Wiki page: 

" Elton became a stand-up comedian primarily to showcase his own writing, but became one of Britain's biggest live comedy acts. After a regular slot on Saturday Live – later moved and renamed Friday Night Live – which was seen as a UK version of the US's Saturday Night Live, he became the host of the programme. "

  It aired from 1985 to 1988 & was hugely popular. So, really, it's already been done. Whether it needs to be done again, we shall see.

[nolte]

I'd give it a chance before panning it.

It does need good writing, production, guest hosts but most of it all, it would need a chance to find it's feet, to get sorted and get the audience

[TimmyBGood]

Apart from the tiny percentage of SNL sketches which people actually remember, it's famously not particularly funny and with extremely varied quality control.  It really become well known by being different to everything else on network television at the time* (and explicitly aimed at the newly emerging domestic stoner audience instead of their parents) rather than being much good...

*that time being 1975, when the alternative was reruns of the Johnny Carson Show, or another beer.

[redsky88]

As @TimmyBGood says it's always been very hit and miss, with more misses. Even in it's so called golden eras it was often cringe inducing. It's success has been breaking new comedians as well as it's general longevity. The social media age has let the better skits get clipped and that's a tactic the UK brand I imagine will aim for. lots of viral clips more that an appointment to view show. Hopefully they go with lots of new talent and not the usual panel show line ups. They will need major guest presenters or the whole thing will look extremely cheap. If by show two it's presented by "big Meeks" it's in trouble.

Nice to see Sky using their contacts to bring a big name IP to UK TV and credit to them for trying it. Looking forward to it. 

[MarkGoldsmith]

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@redsky88 wrote:

As @TimmyBGood says it's always been very hit and miss, with more misses. Even in it's so called golden eras it was often cringe inducing. It's success has been breaking new comedians as well as it's general longevity. The social media age has let the better skits get clipped and that's a tactic the UK brand I imagine will aim for. lots of viral clips more that an appointment to view show. Hopefully they go with lots of new talent and not the usual panel show line ups. They will need major guest presenters or the whole thing will look extremely cheap. If by show two it's presented by "big Meeks" it's in trouble.

Nice to see Sky using their contacts to bring a big name IP to UK TV and credit to them for trying it. Looking forward to it. 

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I certainly think the cast will be a big factor in the success of the show. I feel that they will need a combination of established comedians ( to get the punters watching the show in the first place) with a mixture of new up and coming talent. There is certainly no shortage of up and comming comedians in the UK so it shouldn't be hard to put together a decent cast and create some new mainstream comedy talent.

[Mr+Ripley]

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@redsky88 wrote:

As @TimmyBGood says it's always been very hit and miss, with more misses. Even in it's so called golden eras it was often cringe inducing. It's success has been breaking new comedians as well as it's general longevity. The social media age has let the better skits get clipped and that's a tactic the UK brand I imagine will aim for. lots of viral clips more that an appointment to view show. Hopefully they go with lots of new talent and not the usual panel show line ups. They will need major guest presenters or the whole thing will look extremely cheap. If by show two it's presented by "big Meeks" it's in trouble.

Nice to see Sky using their contacts to bring a big name IP to UK TV and credit to them for trying it. Looking forward to it. 

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  @redsky88  Who or what is a " big Meek " ? Never heard that expression before. As to a host, I'd give it a go if Jimmy Carr did it. Or Katherine Ryan.

[redsky88]

@Mr+Ripley big Meeks is Micah Richards who Sky seem to shoe horn into every entertainment show going. 

[nolte]

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@Mr+Ripley wrote:

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@redsky88 wrote:

As @TimmyBGood says it's always been very hit and miss, with more misses. Even in it's so called golden eras it was often cringe inducing. It's success has been breaking new comedians as well as it's general longevity. The social media age has let the better skits get clipped and that's a tactic the UK brand I imagine will aim for. lots of viral clips more that an appointment to view show. Hopefully they go with lots of new talent and not the usual panel show line ups. They will need major guest presenters or the whole thing will look extremely cheap. If by show two it's presented by "big Meeks" it's in trouble.

Nice to see Sky using their contacts to bring a big name IP to UK TV and credit to them for trying it. Looking forward to it. 

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  @redsky88  Who or what is a " big Meek " ? Never heard that expression before. As to a host, I'd give it a go if Jimmy Carr did it. Or Katherine Ryan.

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Big Meeks is a nickname of Micah Richards, football pundit.