Tina Fey just might be returning to SNL...
But not in front of the camera, as executive producer. That is whenever 78 year-old creator Lorne Michaels decides to step down.
According to a report from the New York Post, the former writer and Weekend Update anchor is “being courted” to take over the position.
But an NBC spokesperson said in a statement issued to ET Canada, “there is no truth” to the New York Post report. They pointed to Michaels’ interview with The New York Times last year in which he said he had
no plans to retire.”
But Michaels did leave the door open for a possible departure after its 50th season in 2024-2025.
During a 2021 interview with CBS News, Michaels said,
I think I’m committed to doing this show until its 50th anniversary, which is in three years.
I’d like to see that through, and I have a feeling that’d be a really good time to leave. But here’s the point: I won’t want the show ever to be bad. I care too deeply about it. It’s been my life’s work.
So, I’m gonna do everything I can to see it carry on and carry on well.”
Saturday Night Live season 49 would have premiered in September or October 2023, but with the strikes, who knows..?
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