Saturday Night Live veterans Paula Pell, John Lutz, Lorne Michaels and Seth Meyers are teaming on Mapleworth Murders, a comedic murder mystery series for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form video platform Quibi. Universal TV is the studio.
Written by and starring Pell and Lutz, Mapleworth Murders centers…
Lorne Michaels has claimed that Saturday Night Live would struggle to get off the ground if it launched today due to budgetary constraints and move towards "narrowcasting".
The SNL creator was giving a keynote address at the Cannes Lions advertising event in France, where he also touched on the history of the show…
Comedy Central’s The Other Twosatirizes the world of social media and YouTube fame within a family dynamic and has proved to be so on point that a second season is in the works. At Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys on Sunday, co-creator and EP Sarah Schneider said the upcoming season likely will dig into the newfound…
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video have purchased feature rights to The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior. The film is based on the biography by former Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill, who revealed in the book that he was the SEAL who killed…
NBC has ordered a pilot presentation forVillage Gazette, a single-camera comedy from Amber Ruffin, who also will star, Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker’s Sethmaker Shoemakers Productions, Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video and Universal TV.
Written by Ruffin and Shelly Gossman (Saturday Night Live), Village Gazette centers…
TBS has set February 12 for the premiere of Miracle Workers, the seven-episode limited series from Man Seeking Woman creator Simon Rich and executive produced by Lorne Michaels. We’re also getting the first look at the heaven-set workplace comedy starring Steve Buscemi as God and Daniel Radcliffe as his low-level…
EXCLUSIVE: Syfy has given a 12-episode order toAlien News Desk, a weekly half-hour topical animated series starring Will Forte and Heidi Gardner. The show, which will debut in early 2019, marks Syfy’s first original late-night animated series.
Alien News Desk has a strong Saturday Night Live pedigree. In addition to…
Saturday Night Live too easy on Donald Trump? Just the suggestion might send MAGA hats exploding into the sky, but former cast member Taran Killam says executive producer Lorne Michaels was once intent on making the pre-White House Trump “likable.”
Long before Alec Baldwin puckered up for his orange-faced SNL Trump…
NBC has put in development The Obsolescents, a single-camera comedy from writer Andrew Gottlieb (The Dangerous Book for Boys), Meg Ryan, Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video and Universal TV where the company has a deal. Ryan is executive producing the project and will potentially star.
Written by Gottlieb, The Obsolescents…
Kanye West, this week’s musical guest on the season premiere of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, wasn’t the show’s first choice: the scheduled Ariana Grande canceled “for emotional reasons,” says creator Lorne Michaels.
Michaels’ disclosure – and his gratitude to West – came during this week’s Origins With James Andrew Mille…
EXCLUSIVE: As he heads into his 16th season on NBC’s late-night staple Saturday Night Live, Kenan Thompson also is setting his sights on primetime. In one of the biggest deals for a comedy project so far this season, NBC has given a production commitment to Saving Larry, a single-camera comedy starring Thompson. It…
Alec Baldwin will be back as President Donald Trump in the upcoming 44th season of Saturday Night Live. The news was revealed during James Andrew Miller’s Origins podcast focused on the new season, which kicks off Saturday, September 29.
In Origins Chapter 4: Saturday Night Live: Behind the Scenes of Season 44, Miller…
