{"id":480229,"date":"2026-03-17T10:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480229\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:48:10","slug":"tina-fey-jamie-dornan-and-riz-ahmed-host-first-saturday-night-live-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480229\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed Host First Saturday Night Live U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d alum Tina Fey<\/a> is set to pass the baton across the pond as she returns to the franchise to host the very first episode of the show\u2019s U.K. version, \u201cSaturday Night Live U.K.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe will be accompanied by the show\u2019s inaugural musical guest, Wet Leg, on March 21, along with the show\u2019s cast, consisting of Hammed Animashaun, Ayoade Bamgboye, Larry Dean, Celeste Dring, George Fouracres, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Al Nash, Jack Shep, Emma Sidi and Paddy Young.<\/p>\n

\n\tFey will be followed by \u201cFifty Shades\u201d star Jamie Dornan as host and Wolf Alice as musical guest on March 28 and Riz Ahmed<\/a>, who is launching a new Prime Video comedy \u201cBait,\u201d with Kasabian on April 4.<\/p>\n

\n\tEach 75-minute episode will be broadcast live from London at 10pm local time, following a similar format to the U.S. original. Episodes of \u201cSaturday Night Live U.K.\u201d will hit Peacock the day after they initially air on the U.K.\u2019s Sky One and Now.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety understands that \u201cSNL\u201d creator Lorne Michaels and fellow alum Seth Meyers have been in London in recent weeks to sit in on table reads as the cast and writers prep for the inagurual episode.<\/p>\n

\n\tLike its Stateside counterpart, \u201cSNL U.K.\u201d will be written, rehearsed and performed in the week of broadcast and will include an opening monologue, topical sketches, a live musical act and even satirical news segment \u201cWeekend Update.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d alum Tina Fey is set to pass the baton across the pond as she returns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,25924,170739,84904,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-riz-ahmed","tag-snl-uk","tag-tina-fey","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}