Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live, hosted by Emmy-winning This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown and featuring musical guest James Bay, drew a 4.1 live+same day rating in the metered market households and a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with local people meters. That was off from last week’s 4.2 household rating (a season low) and 1.9 in 18-49s.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump and Alec Baldwin — his chief impersonator — traded online barbs Friday, each describing the other as causing “agony,” the latest salvos in […]

Saturday Night Live, hosted by James Franco in his fourth time on the show and featuring musical guest SZA, drew a 4.5 household live+same day rating in the metered markets and a 2.1 in adults 18-49 in the markets with local people meters. That was up from the 4.3 in HH and 1.7 in 18-49 for the previous week’s telecast hosted by Saoirse Ronan. The 4.5 in households was the best SNL delivery since Nov. 4.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A group of women who worked alongside Al Franken on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” have signed a statement of support for the Minnesota senator. Last week, broadcaster […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Larry David is facing criticism from the Anti-Defamation League and others for joking about dating in concentration camps during his monologue while hosting “Saturday Night Live” […]

Saturday Night Live is enjoying strong ratings momentum again this season, notching a season-high number in Nielsen’s overnight markets with its most recent edition hosted by Larry David. Saturday’s installment grabbed a 4.7 household rating/11 share and 1.8/8 in adults 18-49 in Nielsen’s 56 overnight metered markets, which cover about 70% of U.S. TV households.

Criticized for earlier overlooking the scandal, Saturday Night Live addressed it this weekend, with varying degrees of comfort and effectiveness.

The series retained roughly 85% of the 2016-17 opener for its second-best premiere since 2010. Airing live in all U.S. time zones, as it did for four episodes last season and will continue to do all of this season, the show averaged just over 7 million viewers and a 1.9 rating among adults 18-49.

NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” says it’s kicking off its 43rd season Sept. 30 with guest host Ryan Gosling and musical guest Jay-Z. For Gosling’s encore host appearance […]

“Saturday Night Live” will still air live in all time zones as its new season kicks off on Sept. 30. Its strong Emmy run and 11% jump in average live-plus-same-day viewers since beginning the live coast-to-coast airings is credited for the decision. 

Commercial prices for Saturday Night Live and Rachel Maddow have soared right along with their audiences. But also seeing a surge in advertising demand is his favorite network, Fox News.

Starting on April 15, NBC will air live the show simultaneously across the country for the first time in its history, coinciding with the East Coast airing. This schedule change affects the final four episodes of the current season.

Turbocharged ratings for cable news and broadcast shows like Saturday Night Live are a surprise even to seen-it-all executives who had been bracing for a plunge in viewership after the excitement of the election.

Saturday Night Live continues its dream ratings run with Donald Trump in office. Saturday night’s episode — hosted by Alec Baldwin, who plays the president this season, with Melissa McCarthy reprising her hugely popular impersonation of White House press secretary Sean Spicer and Ed Sheeran as musical guest — soared in the ratings, scoring a 7.2 in the metered markets households and a 3.6 in adults 18-49 in the markets with local people meters.

The devastating Saturday Night Live caricature of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer that aired over the weekend — in which a belligerent Spicer was spoofed by a gum-chomping, super soaker-wielding Melissa McCarthy in drag — did not go over well internally at a White House in which looks matter.

NEW YORK (AP) — A “Saturday Night Live” writer has been suspended indefinitely after tweeting a poorly received joke about Donald Trump’s 10-year-old youngest son, Barron. A person familiar with […]

Saturday Night Live aired a midseason finale on Saturday that concluded months of high ratings and critical praise. SNL’s ability to skewer Donald Trump, book hotly anticipated hosts and attract weeks of hate-tweets from the president-elect himself have all boosted the show’s relevance. The sketch show successfully took advantage of a bizarre political climate that has brought its own record-shattering television ratings and, at times, has felt more like a reality show than the conclusion of a campaign season.

Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live this weekend in his first post-election appearance, portraying President-elect Donald Trump as he grapples with his transition from candidate into head of state. The episode drew instant criticism from real-life Trump on Twitter who ended his tweet with: “Equal time for us?” Baldwin responded on Twitter, writing, “Equal time? Election is over. There is no more equal time.”

The Capitol Broadcasting NBC affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., that cut the audio nine different times during last night’s broadcast of Saturday Night Live is reconsidering its policies on obscenity and decency. In a post made to its website Sunday afternoon, GM Steve Hammel said the station would review its policies and procedures, and seek viewer input as it did so.

During its first two weeks on the air this fall, NBC had bigger season-opening audiences than at any point since Tina Fey was doing her memorable Sarah Palin impersonation in 2008, according to Nielsen. Based on preliminary ratings, this past Saturday’s third week will be the same.