“Saturday Night Live” on Wednesday announced the initial lineup for its upcoming 52nd season, a slate kicking off with our own Knicks hero Jalen Brunson as host and KATSEYE as musical guest.<\/p>\n
Brunson, as we know, was named MVP of the 2026 NBA Finals — in which the Knicks won the championship for the first time in 53 years.<\/p>\n
KATSEYE\u00a0will make their debut as\u00a0musical\u00a0guest.\u00a0The Grammy\u00a0Award-nominated global\u00a0girl\u00a0group recently released their third EP,\u00a0\u201cWILD,\u201d\u00a0and are currently on their\u00a0\u201cWILDWORLD\u201d\u00a0tour.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dakota Johnson will return as\u00a0\u201cSNL\u201d\u00a0host for\u00a0the\u00a0third\u00a0time\u00a0on Oct.\u00a03.\u00a0Johnson\u00a0stars\u00a0in the upcoming film\u00a0\u201cVerity,\u201d\u00a0in theaters Oct.\u00a02.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Turnstile will perform as\u00a0musical\u00a0guest for the first time. The Grammy-winning hardcore rock band just kicked off their \u201cNEVER ENOUGH Tour Pt. 2\u201d across North America.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shane Gillis, meanwhile, makes his third \u201cSNL\u201d hosting appearance on Oct. 10. The comedian’s series \u201cTires\u201d\u00a0was just renewed for a fourth season.\u00a0Rosal\u00eda will take the stage for the second time as\u00a0musical\u00a0guest after wrapping her global \u201cLux\u201d tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following a\u00a0two-week\u00a0break, “SNL” will return on Oct. 31\u00a0with\u00a0Inde\u00a0Navarrette\u00a0making her hosting debut.\u00a0The\u00a0actress\u00a0is the breakout star of the hit horror-thriller \u201cObsession\u201d and\u00a0will\u00a0star in the upcoming \u201cX-Men\u201d\u00a0film\u00a0and \u201cThe Waffle House Index.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gracie Abrams will\u00a0make her second appearance as\u00a0musical\u00a0guest. The singer-songwriter\u00a0embarks on her next tour this December in support of her third studio album, \u201cDaughter\u00a0from\u00a0Hell.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Saturday Night Live” on Wednesday announced the initial lineup for its upcoming 52nd season, a slate kicking off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,24,11,10],"class_list":["post-342435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}