Jamie Dornan<\/a> took over hosting duties from Tina Fey, accompanied by musical act Wolf Alice.<\/p>\n\n\tThe show airs in the U.K. at 10 p.m. on Comcast-owned pay TV channel Sky One. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe audience share also dropped slightly, from 3.2% in week one to 3.17%, according to official BARB figures supplied by overnights.tv.<\/p>\n
\n\tOn YouTube however the Prince Andrew sketch had attracted 829,000 views in 14 hours followed by a hostage sketch featuring Jamie Dornan and \u201cSNL U.K.\u201d cast member Annabel Marlow discussing her character\u2019s relationship status, which garnered almost 206,000 in 13 hours.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn the 10pm time slot on the main free-to-air channels, the news on BBC One got the lion\u2019s share of audience figures with an average of 1.6 million (20.95% share), followed by \u201cThe Jonathan Ross Show\u201d on ITV1 with 1.1 million (16.59% share) and 2022 Halle Berry sci-fi disaster film \u201cMoonfall\u201d on Channel 4, which attracted almost half of \u201cSNL U.K.\u2019s audience figures with only 126,000 viewers (2.96% share).<\/p>\n
\n\tThe number one show on Saturday was competition format \u201cGladiators,\u201d which saw an average of 3.3 million viewers and an audience share of 32.69%. However, it was broadcast much earlier in the evening (at 5.45pm) on free-to-air network BBC One. It was followed by \u201cBritain\u2019s Got Talent\u201d on ITV 1 (3.2 million viewers with a 29.66% audience share) and \u201cMichael McIntyre\u2019s The Wheel\u201d in the number 3 spot, also on BBC One (with an average audience of 2.7 million and an audience share of 25.09%).<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cSNL U.K.,\u201d which is exec produced by \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d creator Lorne Michaels, launched last weekend in the U.K. with a star-studded episode featuring Michael Cera, Graham Norton, Reg\u00e9-Jean Page and Nicola Coughlan.<\/p>\n
\n\tNext week\u2019s third episode on April 4 will be hosted by Riz Ahmed with musical guest Kasabian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSaturday Night Live U.K.\u201d ratings have dipped two episodes in. The second episode of the live comedy show,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,129770,150804,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-372030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-jamie-dornan","12":"tag-snl-uk","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}