Lorne Michaels Says 'SNL' Remote Episodes Were Not an Option This Season: "I Need an Audience"

Though there are awards predictions and buzz around Ron Howard’s upcoming film, “Hillbilly Elegy,” that drama may not be his best film of 2020. You see, the filmmaker has already released “Rebuilding Paradise,” a heartwarming documentary about a town that unites to rebuild after a terrible tragedy.

“Big Little Lies” is one of the biggest series for HBO over the past few years. With its all-star cast delivering some of the best soap-y drama around, the series was an instant hit for HBO and an Emmy darling.

Kanye West has accused Saturday Night Live of “us[ing] Black people to hold other Black people back” after he was mentioned in a sketch by Issa Rae.The Insecure creator and star was the guest host of last night’s (October 17) episode of SNL, appearing alongside musical guest Justin Bieber.During a sketch called Your Voice Chicago, Rae played a lawyer representing the NAACP on a morning talk show.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSaturday Night Live writers were revising the season’s first cold open right up to the last minute after President Donald Trump’s positive COVID test tossed all plans into the air.In a new NBC News interview, SNL creator Lorne Michaels says the long-running sketch comedy show had a presidential debate sketch written for the Oct. 3 season premiere when news broke the day before about Trump’s illness.

Saturday Night Live's sketch about the hilarious incident. And, as always, the show didn't disappoint.

Saturday Night Live is poking fun at the Vice Presidential debate, including the fly that landed on Mike Pence‘s head during his debate against Kamala Harris.

was booted from “SNL” Wednesday after being spotted partying maskless after a University of Alabama football game last weekend.“SNL” producer Lorne Michaels made the announcement on NBC’s “Today” show Friday morning.“I know Jack White is coming in, and there could be some other stuff still in discussion,” Michaels said of the 45-year-old singer in an interview with anchor Willie Geist.

NEW YORK -- Jack White will be the last-minute replacement musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” after country singer Morgan Wallen was dropped for breaking COVID-19 protocols.Wallen was removed as musical guest on Thursday after TikTok videos showed him partying last weekend without a mask on among a large group of people. Lorne Michaels announced White as a fill-in Friday on the “Today” show.“Calling somebody on a Thursday to be here for Friday, it’s complicated," said Michaels.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticJack White will perform as musical guest on this week’s Saturday Night Live, replacing country star Morgan Wallen, who was dropped from the show earlier this week after video surfaced of the singer partying maskless at a crowded house party.SNL creator Lorne Michaels said this morning on NBC’s Today, that White, formerly of The White Stripes, would perform on tomorrow night’s show, along with possible surprise guests.“It has to be somebody who is ready

Kate Winslet is reflecting on her experience at Saturday Night Live immediately after Ashlee Simpson’s lip-syncing incident in 2004.

Lorne Michaels and his staff at Saturday Night Live are not playing around when it comes to anyone who might bring COVID-19 into Rockefeller Center’s Studio 8-H. The show’s scheduled Oct.

Rising country music star Morgan Wallen has been pulled from a planned performance on Saturday Night Live over coronavirus protocol breaches.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorEXCLUSIVE: Vue International CEO and founder Tim Richards wants to avoid “the nuclear option” of temporarily closing his cinemas in the UK and other overseas markets amid recent shifts to the landscape.

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Ross Lynch has said the show would have released 10 more episodes if not for COVID-19.The actor, who played Harvey Kinkle in the Netflix series opposite Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina, commented on his experience preceding the show’s cancellation.“It’s gonna be one of those things in my life that I’ll look back on with such nostalgia and happy feelings,” Lynch told NME while in conversation with his brother Rocky, discussing their band The Driver Era.“It really was

Nicole Kidman was allowed final say as to what nude scenes would go into the final cut of Eyes Wide Shut, she revealed in a recent interview. In an in-depth interview withThe New York Times Magazinepublished Monday, the Oscar-winning actress discussed her time working with StanleyKubrick on the 1999erotic drama.