‘Saturday Night Live’ Scrambles to Contain Omicron Threat to Deliver Last Episode of 2021

EXCLUSIVE: While the final season of her hit show Ozark is set to premiere later this month, Emmy-winner Julia Garner looks to be already setting up her next big project as sources tell Deadline she has signed on to star in Paramount Players’ Apartment 7A. John Krasinski and Allyson Seeger are producing via Sunday Night as well as Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller, who will produce via Platinum Dunes.

Planning her procedures. Loren Brovarnik is interested in getting plastic surgery once she finishes expanding her family.

The year 2021 was the year of Squid Game.

Ariana DeBose will host the first Saturday Night Live episode of 2022. Show officials announced the line-up for its 15 January show on social media, adding that Roddy Ricch will serve as the musical guest. "First show of 2022!!!" they captioned the reveal on Instagram.

Date night in the Big Apple! Kanye West and Julia Fox enjoyed a New York City outing on Tuesday, January 4, after their weekend in Miami.

Woman of the hour! Alex Rodriguez paid tribute to ex-wife Cynthia Scurtis on her 49th birthday — and shared throwback photos from their marriage and beyond.

The Strokes have announced that they’ve had to postpone their New Year’s Eve show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center due to a spike in Omicron cases.The band were slated to play the New York venue on December 31, with support coming from IDLES and Hinds. However, due to the city’s rise in cases of the new coronavirus variant they’ve now been forced to postpone.“How can we put this….

https://t.co/GAW1hOydUOBarro follows other star reporters like Bari Weiss, who quit the New York Times a year ago and resurfaced with a Substack newsletter called Common Sense which as of October has gotten more than 100,000 subscribers, according to CNN Business.Other examples of star reporters who quit their full-time media jobs to start paid newsletters on Substack include Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Matthew Yglesias and conservative commentator and author Andrew Sullivan.Together, the top

Phish have announced they’ll be postponing their run of shows at Madison Square Garden over the New Year’s period due to a spike in Omicron cases.The outfit were slated to play four shows at the New York venue from December 29 to January 1, including a three-set performance on New Year’s Eve.

Ken Jeong and Joel McHale. The show was also going to include memorable iHeartRadio performances by Imagine Dragons, Maroon 5, Billy Idol, Pink and more.

Broadway box office tumbled last week, dropping 26% from the previous week to a combined tally of $22,511,627 for the 31 productions. Attendance for the week ending Dec. 19 – a week marked by the emergence in New York of the Omicron covid variant and the beginning of a rush of Broadway cancellations – was down 23% to 184,227.

Live from New York — but maybe not for much longer. After decades behind the scenes, Lorne Michaels is opening up about when he’d be ready to say goodbye to Saturday Night Live.

Addie Morfoot ContributorShakespeare in the Park, a free summer production produced by New York’s Public Theater, had never skipped a season in its sixty plus year history until COVID-19 shut down the world in 2020. So when the annual signpost of summer, held at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater, returned after a yearlong hiatus earlier this year, New Yorkers rejoiced.

Live from New York, it’s a much smaller Saturday Night Live. NBC confirms to Us Weekly that the cast will be downsized and live audience removed amid concerns about the rise in positive COVID-19 cases.

With New York emerging as the epicenter of the latest surge in the coronavirus pandemic, tied to the fast-spreading Omicron variant, NBC’s Saturday Night Live has imposed restrictions for its taping tonight.

Singer Darlene Love has performed her holiday classic “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” on ABC’s The View every year since 2015 – she’d begun the TV tradition on David Letterman’s late night shows many years before – but New York’s Covid surge played Grinch today.

Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction was under intense scrutiny today before an all-female bench of appeals court judges in New York.

Pete Davidson is continuing his life as a New York socialite, even without Kim Kardashian by his side.The 28-year-old was spotted with a big smile on his face as he posed courtside as his hometown team the New York Knicks welcomed the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday, December 14.