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Sky has revealed more about its plans to bring Saturday Night Live to the UK.

Phil Edgar-Jones, Sky’s executive director of unscripted originals, said he wanted the remake of NBC’s iconic sketch show to bring “chaos” and “noise” to the screen.

“It’s exciting, a little bit scary as well,” 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.

Edgar-Jones, who spent time embedded with SNL creator Lorne Michaels and the team in the U.S., confirmed that James Longman, executive producer of The Late Late Show With James Corden, will become showrunner of the UK version. Deadline first tipped the news in April.

The series will be filmed in a BBC Studioworks facility, which Edgar-Jones hopes will “capture the intimacy” of the NBC version.

He said the show will be...

Exclusive: It’s the talk of the British comedy entertainment community — and now Deadline can reveal that Saturday Night Live UK is already looking to assemble an eye-catching production team.

Industry sources said Sky and Universal Television Alternative Studio want to appoint James Longman, the executive producer of The Late Late Show With James Corden, as showrunner. A deal is not yet done and Universal Television Alternative Studio declined to comment.

SNL creator Lorne Michaels’ name will be above the door of the UK version, but the hope is that Longman will oversee the series day-to-day. People familiar with the situation said Longman is already sounding out writers and cast.

He was an integral part of the Emmy-winning success of The Late Late Show, moving from London to LA to work alongside Corden and Ben Winston to produce the CBS series for seven years. His time in Hollywood will likely...

BBC presenter and DJ Lauren Laverne has received a cancer diagnosis, she has revealed.

In an Instagram post, the Desert Island Discs host said the cancer had recently been detected during a screening test but was “caught early” and the she is expected to take a full recovery.

She thanked the medical teams who had “got me this far with incredible skill and kindness,” her friends and family, who have been “absolutely extraordinary every step of the way” and the teams at her agent, Independent Talent Group, radio station BBC 6 Music, BBC magazine series The One Show and Desert Island Discs, the influential music show she has hosted since 2018.

She urged people who are “avoiding a test or putting off an appointment” to get checked, noting that “finding out asap is everything.”

“It’s usually my job to bring good vibes on air but any have to spare are very much welcome here,...

The Scurry, a British comedy film about killer squirrels, is in the works, here are the details of the new film.

There have been horror films about a variety of unusual killers over the years, from vengeful car Christine to a killer tyre in Rubber.

Squirrels are the next unlikely killers to get the spotlight, courtesy of the comedy horror The Scurry. The synopsis reads as follows:

Two pest controllers are called to an eco-café in a country park to investigate what begins as a routine vermin problem – but as nightfall approaches an avalanche of deranged squirrels descend, wreaking revenge and mayhem on the staff and visitors in the park.

With many fatalities the survivors take shelter in the café as a freak storm takes out the power and communications leaving them isolated and under attack. An eclectic mix of survivors include pest controllers, a sulky teenager, hypocritical vegans, and...