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Global in Canada was a new network on the air about a year when, in 1975, it imported a little weekend show from NBC. Known back then as Saturday Night, it soon added Live and turned out to be one of the smartest buys the Canadian network has ever made. Five decades later, Global celebrated

Sunday night, viewers can settle in for a three-hour salute to 50 years of Saturday Night Live (8/9c, NBC and Global). Over the years, Canadian comedy talent has shone on the series. Let’s start with creator/executive producer Lorne Michaels. I remember former New York Times TV columnist Bill Carter rhetorically asking me, “who has been

Saturday Night Live is celebrating the big 5-0. Who better to put it in perspective than the Canadian writer who was there at the start. On this special presentation from brioux.tv: the podcast and LateNighter, Rosie Shuster tells how it all began. She was born with a funny bone as the daughter of Frank Shuster (half of