Fox Entertainment and Hulu have set a comprehensive output deal enabling the Disney-owned service to stream all out-of-season episodes of many Fox series, including all of the network’s unscripted fare.
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As former Saturday Night Live cast member Will Forte said in his Saturday Night Live opening monologue, it took getting his MacGruber the series to launch on Peacock for him to finally be invited to host the late-night sketch program 12 years after he’d left.
In the monologue, Forte announced a Season 2 renewal for MacGruber, sort of. “I would like to officially announce that MacGruber has been picked up for a Season 2,” he said before adding, “I would like to announce that. But it hasn’t been picked up yet so I can’t. We’re waiting to hear.”
While Peacock does not release viewership data, MacGruber is said to have done well, and there has been speculation for the last couple of weeks that the show would be renewed for Season 2.
MacGruber originated as a recurring SNL sketch before it spawned a 2010 theatrical movie and the current streaming sequel series. Tonight the NBC show wasted no time welcoming the character back where he started right after Forte’s monologue.
Replicating the way the MacGruber skits originally ran on SNL, there were three separate shorts tonight featuring MacGruber (Forte) as he tries to defuse a bomb with seconds left on the timer. Forte was joined by his co-stars from the Peacock series and the movie, Kristen Wiig, who originated her character Vicki St. Elmo on SNL alongside Forte, and Ryan Phillippe (Dixon Piper).
In the return to SNL, the MacGruber skits received a Covid-era update, with the title hero, as Phillippe’s Piper put it, “going down some kind of alt-right misinformation rabbit hole.” After conducting extensive online “research,” Forte’s MacGruber shares some pretty outrageous, QAnon conspiracy theory-influenced views on masks, Covid vaccinations, Ivermectin, Dr. Anthony Fauci as well as
Fox Entertainment and Hulu have set a comprehensive output deal enabling the Disney-owned service to stream all out-of-season episodes of many Fox series, including all of the network’s unscripted fare.
Selome Hailu Fox Entertainment and Hulu announced a new program output deal allowing Hulu to stream all out-of-season episodes of several Fox unscripted and animated series.Unscripted series that will stream on Hulu under the deal include “The Masked Singer,” “Lego Masters,” “I Can See Your Voice,” “Name That Tune,” “The Masked Dancer,” “Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back,” “MasterChef” and “MasterChef Junior.”“The Masked Singer,” “I Can See Your Voice,” “The Masked Dancer” and “Name That Tune” are produced by Fox Alternative Entertainment. “Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back” is produced by Studio Ramsay Global, the recently formed production entity from Ramsay and Fox Entertainment.
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BBC Three makes its long-awaited return to TV screens today (February 1) and fans online have been reacting to the news.The channel was taken off the airwaves in 2016, moving online in a bid to attract a younger audience with shows including the Sally Rooney adaptation Normal People.Starting today, BBC Three will be broadcast from 7pm GMT every night on Freeview, Sky, Virgin and Freesat, as well as BBC iPlayer.The channel’s return this evening will be celebrated with the launch of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Versus The World on at 9pm.Ahead of that, there will be a special Radio 1 launch party for the channel. A statement said of the programme: “Greg James and Clara Amfo are throwing a party on Radio 1 because BBC Three is on TV.
Michael Appler On Broadway Wednesday evening, “Skeleton Crew,” the final of seven new plays written by Black playwrights to make its debut this season, opened to an intimate crowd at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Friedman Theatre. The show was embraced by an audience that included Danielle Brooks, Denée Benton and La Chanze but stripped, like the factory it depicts, of the usual pomp and circumstance of a flashy Broadway opening.“Skeleton Crew,” the third work in Dominique Morisseau’s trilogy of Detroit-based plays, finds five workers at a Michigan auto factory — dogged by a corroding city around them, the unfeeling unpredictability of their employers and the looming devastation of joblessness as their workplace, the last of the city’s independent auto factories, inevitably closes.
Ben Shephard enjoyed an afternoon off with his wife Annie on Thursday, and revealed they took advantage of the sunny weather by going out for a walk.MORE: Ben Shephard reveals recent health struggleHowever, he joked that they had "hit peak middle age" after deciding to take flasks of tea with them to keep them warm while they walked. WATCH: Ben Shephard shares rare clip of wife at Christmas"It’s happened - we’ve hit peak middle age. Went for a walk with @mrsannieshephard in the afternoon sunshine, and we took flasks of tea! So Rock n Roll! #sorrynotsorry," Ben captioned the photo, which showed him clutching a blue flask as his wife drank her tea while walking alongside him.But far from judging them, many of Ben’s followers were envious of his leisurely afternoon, including Gaby Roslin, who asked if she could join the Good Morning Britain host for a walk soon.
Will Forte is back on the Saturday Night Live stage!
Will Forte returned to “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend for his first time as host and, as expected, he brought MacGruber with him.
here and above.Still, he was determined to make the best of it, excitedly telling the audience “tonight, it’s finally my turn. My time to shine.
MacGruber. But uh, MacGruber is none too pleased with COVID safety measures and might actually be an antivaxx fascist.As always, MacGruber found himself in a tense situation, with only seconds to diffuse a bomb and save himself and his sidekicks. Of course, those sidekicks were none other than Kristen Wiig, reprising her role as Vicki St.
MacGruber is back!
She’s back! Though Kristen Wiig left Saturday Night Live nearly 10 years ago, it’s clearly remained a special place in her heart that she’s often willing to return.
Will Forte made his “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut over the weekend and got a little help from some famous faces. Help he strongly said he didn’t want.
Måneskin made their debut on Saturday Night Live last night (January 22) by performing their cover of ‘Beggin’’ alongside ‘I Wanna Be Your Slave’ – watch footage below.Introduced by special guest Will Forte, the Italian rock group delivered a riotous performance of The Four Seasons’ 1967 song as well as an energetic, groove-led version of their own 2021 single that saw frontman Damiano David paying homage to Blur‘s ‘Song 2’.It’s the latest studio performance from the Eurovision winners who in recent months have performed at the American Music Awards, MTV EMAs and The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. They’ve also supported The Rolling Stones in Las Vegas (with Mick Jagger calling it “a great night”) and shared the stage with Ed Sheeran and Elton John at the Paris leg of Global Citizen Live.Check out their performance on Saturday Night Live below:Next month, Måneskin kick off their 16-date Loud Kids tour with a show at London’s Brixton Academy.
While Will Forte was fully expected to reprise one of his best known Saturday Night Live characters, MacGruber, in his return to the late-night show as host, he also brought back a lesser known skit from his time on the program.
expulsion from the Australian Open.“I never thought I would hear myself use deported in a bad way, but what happened?,” the fake Ingraham asked as she drooled over the Serb’s accented answer.“I’m a fan of your sport, because in tennis love is bad,” she deadpanned.
As tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live wound down, the show paid tribute to its former writer John Bowman, who died suddenly at home in California on New Year’s Eve, aged 64.
Will Forte returned to over the weekend for his first time as host and, as expected, he brought MacGruber with him.The character — who first was created on as a parody of MacGyver, then went on to have his own movie, and just dropped the first season of a TV show on Peacock last month — is famously bad at everything he does, and ends up getting everybody blown up.However, Forte managed to breathe fresh life into the still-funny sketch, with a little help from his co-stars Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillippe.The first sketch of the night (because they almost always comes in threes), sees the trio trying to defuse a bomb in a bank, inside a sealed vault. All three are wearing protective face masks, before MacGruber asks them to take them off, so he can use them to create some elaborate contraption to defuse the explosive.«Now both of you, hand me your masks!» MacGruber declares. «No time to explain, masks now!»As MacGruber lights the masks on fire in a tin can, Wiig's Vicki St.
Will Forte is back on the Saturday Night Live stage!