{"id":842109,"date":"2026-09-09T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842109\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:06:08","slug":"snl-tk-to-host-season-premiere-tk-is-musical-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842109\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL: TK to Host Season Premiere, TK Is Musical Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cSaturday Night Live<\/a>\u201d is returning for its 52nd season, and it will be a star-studded affair.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sketch show announced that the season premiere, set to air on Sept. 26, will be hosted by Jalen Brunson, who recently led the New York Knicks to their first NBA Championship in 53 years, with music from popular K-pop group Katseye. Both Brunson and Katseye will be making their \u201cSNL<\/a>\u201d debut.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oct. 3 episode will be headlined by Dakota Johnson and hardcore rock band Turnstile. Johnson, whose film \u201cVerity\u201d hits theaters on Oct. 2, returns to \u201cSNL\u201d for the third time, while Turnstile makes their \u201cSNL\u201d debut amid their Never Enough Tour Pt. 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tShane Gillis will host \u201cSNL\u201d for the third time on Oct. 10 with Rosal\u00eda as musical guest. Gillis broke the Guinness World Record for largest stand-up audience this summer and recently released Season 3 of his Netflix show \u201cTires,\u201d while Rosal\u00eda will wrap up her Lux world tour the month before her second time at \u201cSNL.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLastly \u2014 and perhaps most excitingly \u2014 this year\u2019s Halloween episode will be hosted by Inde Navarette, the breakout star of the hit horror film \u201cObsession.\u201d She will be joined on Oct. 31 by musical guest Gracie Abrams, who returns to \u201cSNL\u201d for the second time after releasing the album \u201cDaughter From Hell\u201d earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tOffseason news from \u201cSNL\u201d has been quiet, with the biggest update being that Chloe Fineman, who has been a player on the show since 2019, has departed<\/a> after seven seasons. Martin Herlihy, who previously appeared on-screen for four seasons as a member of Please Don\u2019t Destroy and worked in the writers room on Season 51, has also exited the show<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tAcross the pond, \u201cSaturday Night Live UK\u201d beat the American version in announcing its premiere date plan<\/a> for its second season, setting Jeff Goldblum and CMAT as host and musical guest for its Sept. 12 premiere. The series is set to bring back its full cast from the first season, and will run for 12 episodes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSNL\u201d Season 51 hosts included Will Ferrell, Bad Bunny, Matt Damon, Connor Storrie and many more, with musical guests that included Doja Cat, Sombr, Role Model and Cher. Some celebs did double duty as well, with Harry Styles, Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo all serving as both host and musical guest.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety spoke with some of the Season 51 newcomers<\/a> at the end of season and asked them what their goals were for their upcoming sophomore year.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe senior people are so good at capturing their own voice in sketch, like Andrew [Dismukes] and James [Austin Johnson],\u201d Jeremy Culhane\u00a0said. \u201cThat\u2019s something I\u2019d be happy to get better at.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd working together,\u201d Veronika Slowikowski added. \u201cThis year, we were all trying to get our own thing on, and rightfully so. Next year, I\u2019d like to find characters together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d is returning for its 52nd season, and it will be a star-studded affair. The sketch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,12015,12016],"class_list":["post-842109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}