Ahead of Saturday Night Live‘s 50th anniversary celebration in February, Peacock will take a deeper dive into the show’s five decades of history.
The NBCUniversal-owned platform will stream SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, a four-part series delving into the behind-the-scenes life of NBC’s long-running sketch comedy show, on Jan. 16. Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) is among the executive producers of the project, which will feature a number of SNL alumni and a trove of previously unseen footage, as the filmmakers were given unfettered access to the show’s archives.
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Robert Alexander (The Shop), Marshall Curry (The Neighbors’ Window), Neil Berkeley (Harmontown) and Jason Zeldes (Ugly Delicious) directed the episodes, which will each focus on a different aspect of the show. The episodes are as follows:
“Five Minutes”: A look at the SNL audition process, featuring
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