Fall TV Shakeups: The Biggest Casting Changes Hitting ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ ‘Saturday Night Live’ and More
variety.comEmily Longeretta When it comes time for fall, the leaves aren’t the only things that change. In the TV landscape, especially in broadcast, cast shakeups are common.
Sometimes, that means that many actors are choosing to walk away from beloved characters — for one reason or another. The same goes in unscripted, something that is proven in the upcoming 48th season of “Saturday Night Live.” The new season is seeing seven giant exits: Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor, Aristotle Athari, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney and Pete Davidson have all exited, as has senior producer Lindsay Shookus, who is leaving after many years of working in talent relations.
Moments after creator Lorne Michaels won the Emmy last week for variety sketch series, he told reporters in the media room that those changes may have happened earlier, but with the COVID-19 pandemic, no one wanted to walk away just yet. “There was an intimacy and a bond, a connection between the audience and this group.
And I think we just I couldn’t imagine the world without that whole team. So we just kept going,” he said at the time. “This will be a transition year.
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