All the failed Saturday Night Live UK attempts of the past

Where can I watch SNL UK?

Sky One and NowTV are your go-to platforms, where each 75-minute episode will air live and be available to watch later.

Who’s in the line-up?

If there’s any reason to believe in SNL UK, it’s the cast. The inaugural line-up features a crack team of stand-up mainstays, Edinburgh Fringe winners, Taskmaster contestants, viral TikTokkers and comedy actors. Which is to say: these guys know what they’re doing.

In the actor lane, there’s This Country’s Celeste Dring, Black Ops’ Hammed Animashaun, Jack Shep from Big Boys and Paddy Young, who you might recognise from Everyone Else Burns. Then, from the stand-up circuit, we have Larry Dean and Ania Magliano, while Annabel Marlow is a West End queen who cut her teeth in Six the Musical.

Ayoade Bamgboye is the woman the award-winning Edinburgh Fringe show Swings and Roundabouts; Emma Sidi is character actor who’s been doing sketch and improv since uni; George Fouracres is comedian who can also take on Hamlet at Shakespeare’s Globe. Finally, there’s Al Nash, the social media star who regularly racks up hundreds of thousands of views.

Of course, it wouldn’t be SNL without celebrity guests – and the lineup for the first three episodes has already been announced. This weekend, SNL OG Tina Fey will help the British cast get things off to a flying start, with Wet Leg on board as the musical guest. Then, in the coming weeks, expect to see Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed, alongside Wolf Alice and Kasabian, respectively.

Five past attempts (that failed)

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