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
We’d seen the clips and read the hype. Maya Rudolph and Jim Gaffigan would play Vice President Kamala Harris and V.P. hopeful Tim Walz when Saturday Night Live returned for its 50th season. Anticipation was high that the series, five weeks before an election, would hit it out of the park. It did not. A