'Saturday Night Seder' Organizer on Remote Producing as a Religious Experience

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSaturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost calls the week in 2015 when then-presidential candidate Donald Trump hosted the show “surreal,” and in retrospect not such a great idea.Interviewed by Andrea Mitchell on her MSNBC show today, Jost said he wrote about the episode in his new memoir A Very Punchable Face (a reference to his own mug) to give readers a sense of what SNL‘s Trump Week was like behind the scenes.

Disney have delayed the release of a trio of major films, citing the “global health crisis” produced by the coronavirus pandemic.The live-action re-make of Mulan, which had originally been set for a March release and was recently hoping to make an August arrival in cinemas, has been postponed indefinitely.“It’s become clear that nothing can be set in stone when it comes to how we release films during this global health crisis,” a Disney representative said.

Sam Jay is gearing up to make her Netflix debut.

Saturday Night Live might be returning to the studio to shoot new episodes, Variety is reporting.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIf NBC and Lorne Michaels have their way, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” this fall could move from being produced from cast members’ homes to being made the old-fashioned way – “from New York.”Michaels and his team are making plans to bring the show back to NBC’s Manhattan studios for the venerable late-night program’s 46th season, according to two people familiar with the matter – the latest of TV’s wee-hours programs to try and navigate a new normal in the midst

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThough pandemic isolation has made Colin Jost appreciate more than ever the routine of working at Saturday Night Live‘s 30 Rock studio, the Weekend Update co-host still isn’t sure if the upcoming season will be his last.Appearing – remotely – on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show, Jost couldn’t give a definite answer when Stern asked point blank if he’d be leaving the long-running NBC sketch comedy series after this season.“I’ve been talking to Che about it

Michael McIntyre will present a new Saturday night game show on BBC One.

Colin Jost set the record straight about a well-placed prop that snuck into the background of a Saturday Night Live episode in April.The comedian, 38, got a handful of negative comments about a very visible guitar that was left on his couch during his “Weekend Update” segment on the April 11 episode of the variety show, which was filmed from home during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Two months later, he claimed fiancée Scarlett Johansson was the culprit.

hereOwner Martin Hennin said he had has own concerns and had already stopped serving by the time police spoke to him at 10pm.He said there were 'a lot of drunk people' out that night and it became 'a bit difficult to manage people' outside."We stopped serving and we stopped letting people in before the police came to us because we felt it was getting too busy," said Mr Hennin."The police came and said 'it's too busy, people are standing now'.

Brad Paisley opened 2020's re-imagined Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular on NBC with a good dose of country, performing "American Saturday Night" live from the Grand Ole Opry."American Saturday Night," off of Paisley's 2009 album of the same name, set a feel-good tone for the night's program, which was hosted in New York City but featured musical performances from artists around the country.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Jake Horowitz, who can currently be seen starring in the Amazon Studios/GED Cinema mystery drama, The Vast of Night, has signed with Hyperion, the talent agency founded by former UTA agent Ryan Bartlett.The Andrew Patterson-helmed film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Overlook Film Festival as well as the Audience Award at Slamdance Film Festival, and was an official selection of Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAward-winning songwriter Benj Pasek has announced that two songs from “Saturday Night Seder,”  “When You Believe” and “Next Year” — have been released by Ghostlight Records with all proceeds benefitting Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.“Saturday Night Seder” premiered on April 11 on YouTube as a virtual Passover event featuring Jason Alexander, Pamela Adlon, Idina Menzel, Cynthia Erivo, Billy Eichner and a host of other celebrities to help tell the story of