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Sky has revealed more about its plans to bring Saturday Night Live <\/em>to the UK.<\/p>\n Phil Edgar-Jones, Sky\u2019s executive director of unscripted originals, said he wanted the remake of NBC\u2019s iconic sketch show to bring \u201cchaos\u201d and \u201cnoise\u201d to the screen.<\/p>\n More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s exciting, a little bit scary as well,\u201d Edgar-Jones told the Edinburgh TV Festival, revealing that Sky talent scouts are in the Scottish city assessing the next generation of comedy stars at the Fringe.<\/p>\n Edgar-Jones, who spent time embedded with SNL<\/em> creator Lorne Michaels and the team in the U.S., confirmed that James Longman<\/a>, executive producer of\u00a0The Late Late Show With James Corden<\/em>, will become showrunner of the UK version. Deadline first tipped the news in April.<\/a><\/p>\n The series will be filmed in a BBC Studioworks facility, which Edgar-Jones hopes will \u201ccapture the intimacy\u201d of the NBC version.<\/p>\n He said the show will be true to the American original but \u201chas to be a very British thing\u201d if it is going to resonate with audiences in the UK. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a big employer, which is great,\u201d he added. Michaels\u2019 Broadway Video and Universal Television Alternative Studio are producing.<\/p>\n Sky\u2019s UK version will launch in 2026 and become the most high-profile international version of the venerable NBC late-night show after remakes in China, Germany, Italy, and South Korea.<\/p>\n SNL<\/em>\u00a0is well known to comedy fans in the UK, but is more closely associated with viral online clips than full episodes on television. Sky only began airing full versions\u00a0in 2020, while the show briefly featured on ITV4 in 2006. The UK version has been in the works for several years, with\u00a0Deadline first revealing it was being developed at Sky in 2021.<\/a><\/p>\n The UK does not have a fantastic record of attempting to imitate late-night American comedy series. ITV\u2019s\u00a0The Nightly Show<\/em>\u00a0was critically panned and dumped after one season in 2017. Channel 4\u2019s\u00a010 O\u2019Clock Live<\/em>\u00a0aired for three seasons at the start of last decade.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sky has revealed more about its plans to bring Saturday Night Live to the UK. 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