Hulu, however, still has about 20 seasons available, including the first five, as well as next-day episodes from current seasons, including the upcoming 45th season. Netflix and Hulu offered every past episode of the show, but little else: no bonus content, no specialized playlists of themed sketches.
It did offer curated sketch playlists, but unfortunately for SNL fans, that only lasted less than two years, and no other bonus content was offered. The simple existence of Who Wrote That? There ought to be a collection of all the Halloween and Christmas episodes in one place, for instance, rather than making users hunt each one of them down. Writers profiled for Who Wrote That? It made it super easy for fans to search for specific sketches, and there were bonus features, such as behind-the-scenes and making-of clips, plus sketches cut from dress rehearsal.
Another way to lure subscribers and boost engagement would be for Peacock to spend the time and money needed to make sure past episodes streamed the way audience saw them when they first aired, i. The reason for this is money: Licensing music is time-consuming and expensive often ridiculously expensive. In that same interview with The A. Among those stalled features is Da Movie version of Da Bears sketch, a.
But a bad year for SNL on the small screen spelled trouble for anyone involved with the show. When Martin hosted SNL in the s, the two morphed their characters into a set of brothers. Paul Reubens, a. Pee-wee Herman , has a theory as to why Gilbert Gottfried got the SNL spot the two of them auditioned for in He believes that Gottfried was favored for being friends with one of the producers.
I went from this Saturday Night Live reject to having 60 people working for me. In an effort to be considered for the show, Eddie Murphy called SNL talent coordinator Neil Levy every day for a week explaining how desperately he needed the job. His audition went so well that he was given a contract right away. The group of writers informed him that he could do better, but Myers wrote the sketch anyway. Obviously, it became a hit.
But Fey had clout: three years' experience as a writer for the show and one season as head writer. Larry David wrote for SNL in the s, but was always struggling to get his sketches on the air. I quit. He continued working there for the rest of the season, and that story was later used on a Seinfeld episode. Quitting for a weekend is nothing compared to Chris Parnell, who was fired from the show twice: once in , then again in He was asked back the following season, though.
If you get cast on the show, I'll let you break your contract and go do it, but if they ask you to write, I can't, because you have a job writing here, plus you're on the show. So I'm not going to let you leave the show so you can go be in New York. I hated L. That was really heartbreaking to have to turn down, but then I got to guest-write in the spring.
Michaels claims that she reached out to the press before telling him about the decision. That was the beginning of the end of her SNL career. Los Angeles-based writer Justin Becker made a game out of the answer when he wrote a fake script in which he transformed Mr. Saturday Night Live contracts have been traditionally long-term deals, running five or six years.
But under the new contract, NBC can take a Saturday Night Live player off the show any time after his or her second year on the program and put him or her in an NBC sitcom. A cast member does have the option of saying no to the first two shows proposed by NBC, but must accept the third, sources on both sides of the contract said. And NBC dictates the length of the sitcom contract, which can run as long as six years.
In a nightmare scenario put forth by the managers and agents, NBC could sign someone to a six-year Saturday Night Live deal and then, conceivably, at the end of that six years, toss them into an NBC sitcom for another six years. Call it indentured servitude, show-biz style. For many comedians, that can represent an entire career.
The new contract would also give NBC and Mr. Michaels considerable say in the movie careers of Saturday Night Live cast members. Those rates used to be negotiated at higher rates. The network can also pay a star similar rates to say no to a movie being made by another studio. Michaels said he feels this is a lot of hullabaloo over nothing. When John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd wanted to leave with a year left on their contracts, they did.
Michaels said those will, of course, be negotiable. Either way, he said, the part of the contract that lets the network sign a star for another five- or six-year contract will probably be retooled. Michaels said. Though it once looked invincible in prime time, last season NBC lost its No. And its once untouchable Thursday-night lineup has eroded with the loss of Seinfeld. In short, NBC needs talent, and lots of it. So why not go after Mr.
Meanwhile, NBC executives have apparently grown weary of watching nobodys like Mike Myers and Adam Sandler become famous on Saturday Night Live , then leave to make hundreds of millions of dollars for other studios. According to Mr. Michaels, the new contracts came about during a network reevaluation by Mr. Sassa and his new entertainment chief, Garth Ancier.
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