{"id":613294,"date":"2026-09-03T16:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/613294\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:48:14","slug":"cmat-and-jeff-goldblum-are-both-locked-in-to-launch-return-of-saturday-night-live-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/613294\/","title":{"rendered":"CMAT and Jeff Goldblum are both locked in to launch return of Saturday Night Live UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CMAT HAS BEEN announced as the musical guest for the first episode of season two of Saturday Night Live UK.<\/p>\n<p>Over in the US, SNL debuted in 1975 and remains one of the biggest shows across the water.<\/p>\n<p>Its UK spin-off premiered on Sky One on 21 March and each episode features a different celebrity host and musical guest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788454094_381_.png\"  alt=\"snl\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            CMAT is set to appear alongside Jeff Goldblum                    Sky<\/p>\n<p>    Sky\n<\/p>\n<p>There was an Irish connection with the opening show of the first season too, with Nicola Coughlan and Graham Norton appearing.<\/p>\n<p>Coughlan went on to host a later episode in the first season, while Jamie Dornan hosted the second episode.<\/p>\n<p>There were eight episodes in the first season of SNL UK which aired from March to May, and the second series will start with an episode Saturday, 12 September.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788454094_206_.JPEG\"  alt=\"london-uk-june-4th-2026-jeff-goldblum-attending-the-disclosure-day-uk-premiere-leicester-square-credit-doug-petersempicsalamy-live-news\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            File image of Jeff Goldblum                    Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n<p>    Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n<p>CMAT is set to star as the musical guest on the first episode, which will be hosted by actor Jeff Goldblum.<\/p>\n<p>The first six episodes of the new season will air weekly until 24 October, with the other six shows planned for early 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CMAT HAS BEEN announced as the musical guest for the first episode of season two of Saturday Night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[893,93,61,60,57354,5195,121350,15640,15824,150804],"class_list":["post-613294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cmat","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jeff-goldblum","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-second-season","tag-sky","tag-snl","tag-snl-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613294","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=613294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}