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Saturday Night Live's 'Weekend Update' Picked Up To Series
Saturday Night Live's 'Weekend Update' Picked Up To Series

Saturday Night Live's 'Weekend Update' To Premiere as Standalone Series This Summer

Saturday Night Live's 'Weekend Update' Picked Up To Series

It appears Saturday Night Live is liberating a cornerstone segment. The iconic late-night show has announced that Colin Jost and Michael Che will lead Weekend Update in a standalone primetime slot on NBC this summer.

According to Rolling Stone, the show will air four nights in 30-minute episodes. Breakout Update specials are not terribly rare; three arrived ahead of the 2008 election, three more the following year, but did not air anything ahead of the 2016 election. But this is the first time a full series of the news satire segment has been ordered. The announcement arrives as the show continues to see its best ratings in a generation, largely hinged to A-list appearances from Alec Baldwin and Melissa McCarthy as the wildly incompetent Trump/Spicer duo.

Baldwin's impersonation will live forevermore in an upcoming satirical memoir, You Can’t Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story Of My Fantastic First Year As President Donald J. Trumparriving on November 7th.  Weekend Update will premiere on August 10th at 9pm.