Tomorrow, live from London, it will be Saturday night.
The UK version of the NBC format that has come to define late night television across five decades is about to launch. Saturday Night Live UK has been nearly five years in the making (we first broke the news at Christmas 2021) and its inception can be traced back to the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where a nervous James Longman sat down with the iconic Lorne Michaels.
“I was texting my mate asking what I should wear and in the end I went for a crisp white shirt,” says Longman, lead producer of SNL UK. “I remember talking to Lorne for an hour about L.A. traffic over a cup of tea. I went away thinking, ‘Well if nothing ever happens, at least I’ve had that moment.’ The only feedback I got was that he liked my
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