Sky TV seems pretty satisfied with the first season of Saturday Night Live UK. Even if the overnight ratings have been pretty average and it\u2019s supposedly one of the most expensive series on Sky, Deadline reports that the show has already been renewed for a second season ahead of its final two episodes. Hannah Waddingham will host the show on May 9 and Ncuti Gatwa will host on May 16 with musical guests Myles Smith and Holly Humberstone, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Deadline suggests that part of the reason for the renewal is the positive reaction on social media and from critics. The trade calls SNL UK Sky\u2019s \u201cmost expensive unscripted show of all time,\u201d which seems like a bit of a misnomer given that a sketch comedy show is, y\u2019know, scripted. Regardless, each episode costs millions of pounds to produce (which is fairly similar to what it costs in the States<\/a>) and could wind up have a pretty significant impact on Sky\u2019s yearly budget if the show runs for multiple years.\u00a0<\/p>\n These international SNL spinoffs have been a mixed bag, though. There was another version of SNL UK in the 90s which ran for four seasons, but other international expeditions, like to Spain and Qu\u00e9bec, only lasted one season. Meanwhile, SNL Korea is currently on its 17th season. We\u2019ll see just how far SNL UK goes in due time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky TV seems pretty satisfied with the first season of Saturday Night Live UK. Even if the overnight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-430179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}