Pete Davidson will just have to wait to make his Saturday Evening Live return.
The comedy sketch show’s May perhaps 6 episode—which was in the beginning scheduled to be hosted by the Bupkis star along with musical guest Lil Uzi Vert—has been canceled due to the Writers Guild of The us strike, according to NBC. The community introduced May 2 that it will air repeats of SNL going ahead until finally further see.
Davidson, who left the series last 12 months just after 8 seasons, formerly joked that he would choose the cancellation individually if the writers’ strike were certainly to materialize.
“It sucks,” he quipped to host Jimmy Fallon an April 28 look of The Tonight Display Starring Jimmy Fallon, “since it just feeds my odd story I have in my head, like, ‘Of training course that would come about to me.'”
At the time, Davidson stated he was unsure if his episode would tape, however “it would be definitely neat” to revisit his previous stomping grounds.
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The WGA went on strike May well 2 soon after weeks-lengthy negotiations with the Alliance of Movement Photo and Tv Producers (AMPTP) broke down.
“The WGA Negotiating Committee began this approach intent on earning a good deal, but the studios’ responses have been wholly insufficient supplied the existential disaster writers are facing,” the guild mentioned in a statement on Might 1. “Picketing will start tomorrow afternoon.”
This is not the initial time SNL’s broadcast agenda has been affected by a strike. In 2007, the present had only aired 4 episodes from its 33rd season when a WGA strike put manufacturing on pause, efficiently scrapping two pre-planned tapings slated to star Dwayne Johnson and Jonah Hill.
The collection returned 3 months afterwards in February 2008, with Tina Fey serving as host. Overall, the period only had 12 episodes, though a common period has close to 20.
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