NBC Plans Feb. 23 Return For 'Saturday Night Live' - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 02-13-2008, 12:08 AM

NEW YORK (AP) - NBC's ''Saturday Night Live,'' the only late-night show completely shelved by the writers' strike, is planning a Feb. 23 return if the writers ratify a contract agreement and head back to work. No guests or host have been announced for the return.

How long has ''Saturday Night Live'' been gone? So long that it opened its second-to-last show before the strike with a skit about a Halloween party at presumed president-in-waiting Hillary Clinton's house. The real Barack Obama made a cameo. ''It's been a long dry spell without 'Saturday Night Live' on the air,'' said Rick Ludwin, head of late-night entertainment at NBC, on Tuesday. ''They've been sitting on the sidelines watching all this happening in politics and the primaries. 'SNL' thrives during an election year and they can't wait to get back on.''

While the ''Tonight'' show and Conan O'Brien's ''Late Night'' returned in January without writers and did shows with skeleton crews, ''SNL'' is so dependent on its writers that it couldn't return without them.

snl 70s show fan · 02-13-2008, 05:12 PM

i read this morning that fomer cast member/head writer/star of 30 rock tina fey is going to be the host on feb. 23

EmoJoe · 02-13-2008, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by snl 70s show fan

i read this morning that fomer cast member/head writer/star of 30 rock tina fey is going to be the host on feb. 23

YESSS

Scoobiedoo30 · 02-17-2008, 01:42 PM

my brother was doing Cart Wheels over the news about Saturday Night Live.

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snl 70s show fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Jun 14, 2005 Location: in the forman basment Posts: 2,454	i read this morning that fomer cast member/head writer/star of 30 rock tina fey is going to be the host on feb. 23