Saturday Night Live CANCELS live audience and limits cast and crew on set due to COVID-19 outbreak

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The Masked Singer bosses admit they “sit on their hands” and struggle not to post messages on social media telling fans their guesses are way off.Every Saturday night when the ITV show is on air, Twitter and Facebook go into meltdown.Viewers post pictures and theories over which celebrities they think are hiding behind the masks - and by the end of the night, many believe they have cracked the cryptic clues and solved the stars' identities.However, the chiefs at Bandicoot TV - who are responsible for making the show - confess that they have a hard job not to jump on their phones and computers to tell folk they are wrong.Executive producer Derek McLean said: "I love the fact that there are core groups of super-fans, forums and conspiracy theorists."I have to really sit on my hands on a Sunday morning when I see the posts and not start replying to these people and say ‘That wasn’t it you’re wrong’ and ‘That wasn’t a clue, you have got that wrong’."I have to sit on my hands the whole time."Tonight the final three characters Panda, Robobunny and Mushroom will be unmasked.Before they are, they will get to sing one more time and also perform duets with characters from previous series such as Queen Bee, Robin and Hedgehog.Fans have claimed the cryptic clues for the 2022 series have been very hard.However Derek explains: "It is an eight week guessing game."If you guessed who they were in episode one or two there is nowhere for us to go.

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Longtime "Saturday Night Live" boss, Lorne Michaels, is thinking ahead to when he might ultimately retire from his position at the show.  Michaels has been the co-creator and lead producer of the series since it got its start in the 1970s. He left his duties in 1980 only to return five years later, where he’s been at the helm of the popular late-night sketch series ever since.

Lorne Michaels said he might be ready to step down from Saturday Night Live after the show's 50th anniversary season in 2024.The Saturday Night Live creator, 77, speaking with Gayle King on CBS Mornings, said he's 'committed to doing this show until its 50th anniversary, which is in three years.'He continued: 'I'd like to see that through, and I have a feeling that'd be a really good time to leave. But … I won't want the show ever to be bad.

“CBS Mornings” on Monday that he is contemplating leaving following the show’s 50th anniversary in the 2024-2025 season.“You know, I think I’m committed to doing this show until its 50th anniversary, which is in three years,” he said. “I’d like to see that through and I have a feeling that’d be a really good time to leave.

Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live, has admitted that he is considering retiring from the long-running NBC series when it hits its 50th anniversary.

Tina Fey made a last-minute appearance on this weekend's Saturday Night Live after Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost sat out the show amid a slew of positive COVID-19results.The 51-year-old comedian helped keep the long-running sketch comedy series afloat while host Paul Rudd returned to mark his entry into the Five Timers Club with special guests Tom Hanks, Steve Martin and Martin Short.Also making a brief appearance was the show's original musical guest Charli XCX, who starred in a bizarre musical sketch as a parrot after the show's producers opted not to have a live audience and canceled her live musical performances.

looked quite a bit different this week. Paul Rudd was set to host, but due to the spike in COVID-19 cases, the show decided to forgo a live audience and the musical guest and pre-tape most of the sketches.However, this was also supposed to be a momentous occasion for Rudd, as he was set to join the so-called five-timers club — i.e.

her scheduled appearance on Saturday Night Live, Charli XCX has announced that her performance won’t be going ahead due to “limited crew”.Charli was set to perform with Caroline Polachek and Christine And The Queens on the December 18 episode of the show, hosted by Paul Rudd. However, new COVID restrictions were brought in by the NBC programme in response to the Omicron variant, reducing the number of cast and crew.“Due to the limited crew at tonight’s taping of SNL my musical performances will no longer be able to go ahead.

Charli XCX will not be performing on tonight’s Saturday Night Live as a result of issues around Covid.

after a rash of positive tests among the cast.In addition, musical guest Charli XCX officially bailed on performing, saying she was “devastated and heartbroken” by the turn of events.Fey’s alleged appearance would mean a return to the 30 Rockefeller Center anchor chair for her: She co-anchored “Weekend Update” alongside Amy Poehler, 50, from 2004 to 2006 and previously with current “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon, 47, from 2000 to 2004. Emmy winner Fey’s “SNL” return could also mean a reunion of sorts with Fallon, who an insider said was among the “possibilities” to pop up during host Paul Rudd’s monologue to celebrate his fifth time hosting the sketch series.

Charli XCX has had to pull out of tonight’s Saturday Night Live as a result of issues around Covid.

Caroline Polachek and Christine And The Queens will join Charli XCX on this tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live, the latter revealed on social media yesterday (Friday 17).In her post, the night before the performance, the singer said simply: “bringing some friends to snl…”A post shared by Charli (@charli_xcx)Charli XCX, along with Caroline Polachek and Christine And The Queens, released a collaborative single ‘New Shapes’, last month. The track is lifted from Charli XCX’s forthcoming studio album, ‘CRASH’, set for release on March 18, 2022.

including “Company,” “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” “Hamilton,” “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” “Ain’t Too Proud,” “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical” and “Freestyle Love Supreme” — have all temporarily shut down this past week due to COVID concerns.

Paul Rudd's joining elite company at, but that's not stopping him from cracking a joke, even if it comes at his expense.The  star appeared alongside musical guest Charli XCX and cast member Ego Nwodim in a promo for the upcoming show, which closes out the 47th season. In the clip, Nwodim congratulated Rudd for joining the «Five-Timers Club.» Rudd thanks Nwodim, prompting the English singer/songwriter to ask, «Oh, this is your fifth time hosting?»Rudd, putting his comedic chops on full display, quipped, «No, no no.