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SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night to Premiere on January 17 in Canada

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SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night,Peacock’s upcoming Saturday Night Live docuseries, is set to premiere this Friday, January 17 at 9 p.m. ET on Showcase in Canada. The four-part series will also stream on the Global TV app and STACKTV.

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Honouring the legacy of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night will feature over 60 contributors, including SNL alumni, and will cover decades of the show’s history, spotlighting some of the show’s most iconic elements. Each episode will dive into SNL’s rich history and pulls back the curtain on the audition process, the writers’ room, the fan favourite “More Cowbell” sketch and the pivotal 11th season.

Directed by Morgan Neville(Won’t You Be My Neighbor?), each episode will take a different creative approach to the tapestry of SNL and offer never-before-seen footage.

The first episode, “Five Minutes” will air on Friday, January 17 and will feature Ayala Cohen, Amy Poehler, Andy Samberg, Beck Bennett, Bill Hader, Bobby Moynihan, Bowen Yang, Cheri Oteri, David Spade, Ego Nwodim, Fred Armisen, Heidi Gardner, Jason Sudeikis, Jay Pharaoh, Jeff Blake, Joe Piscopo, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kenan Thompson, Kyle Mooney, Lindsay Shookus, Marci Klein, Mike Shoemaker, Molly Shannon, Nasim Pedrad, Pete Davidson, Stephen Colbert and Tracy Morgan.

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The second episode, “Written By: A Week Inside the SNL Writers Room” will air on Friday, January 24, and will feature Alan Zweibel, Alex English, Al Franken, Andrew Dismukes, Asha Ward, Ben Marshall, Bob Odenkirk, Bryan Tucker, Ceara O’Sullivan, Celeste Yim, Emily Spivey, Harper Steele, Jim Downey, Jimmy Fowlie, John Higgins, John Mulaney, Larry David, Louie Zakarian, Marilyn Miller, Martin Herlihy, Paula Pell, Robert Smigel, Sarah Silverman, Seth Meyers, Simon Rich, Steve Higgins, Streeter Seidell, Tina Fey and Will Stephen.

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The third episode, “More Cowbell” will air on Friday, January 31, and will feature Akira Yoshimura, Albert Bouchard, Beth McCarthy-Miller, Bruce Dickinson, Buck Dharma, Cara Hannah, Chris Kattan, Chris Parnell, Dana Carvey, Dave Grohl, Dave Itzkoff, Darrell Hammond, Eamon Cunningham, Eric Bloom, Fred Armisen, Jimmy Fallon, Jodi Mancuso, John Karpi, Josh Homme, Keith Raywood, Larry Demler, Louie Zakarian, Murray Krugman, Rachel Dratch, Tom Broecker, Will Ferrell and David Lucas.

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The fourth episode, “Season 11: The Weird Year” will air on Friday, February 7, and will feature A. Whitney Brown, Al Franken, Andy Breckman, Anthony Michael Hall, Billy Crystal, Carol Leifer, Damon Wayans, George Meyer, George Wendt, Griffin Dunne, James Andrew Miller, Jim Downey, John Lithgow, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Nealon, Laila Nabulsi, Mark McKinney, Nora Dunn, Penn & Teller, Robert Smigel, Terry Sweeney and Tom Hanks – along with archival interviews with Bernie Brillstein, Lorne Michaels, Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Davis.

Other upcoming highlights celebrating the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live include Ladies & Gentleman… 50 Years of SNL Music, which will air on Monday, January 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC and a live primetime special on Sunday, February 16 on NBC and Global.

New episodes of Saturday Night Live resume this Saturday, January 18 with host Dave Chappelle and musical guest GloRilla. Timothée Chalamet is set to host and perform on Saturday, January 25. Episodes of SNL air Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET on Global and NBC with episodes streaming on the Global TV app and STACKTV in Canada.

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