Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor NBC is only dipping into a recent “Vintage” when it comes to showing primetime repeats of “Saturday Night Live.” The network has since 2014 used its 10 p.m.
slot on Saturdays to run “SNL” repeats from across the show’s decades-long run, a move that whets fans appetites’ for the 11:30 p.m.
main showing of the popular late-night series. The 60-minute cut-down of the archival selection is known as “SNL Vintage.” In recent weeks, however, the archives have stayed shut.
Instead, NBC has been sticking with repeats of episodes from this season or last — a bid, perhaps, to keep the focus on the show’s current cast of players.
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