Season 46 premiers on Saturday.
Although the coronavirus is still raging in America, a few things are happening that can make life feel somewhat normal. There’s still quite a ways to go before people in the U.S. can go about their pre-COVID day-to-day routines, but kids are back in school—albeit largely virtual—indoor dining has launched in New York City as long as restaurants operate at a 25 percent capacity, and Saturday Night Live is back. The 46th season of the NBC sketch comedy show premieres on Saturday, and get this: It’s filming live at its Studio 8H home inside New York’s Rockefeller Center. It will even have a studio audience. Of course, showrunners are taking all precautions. Audience members will be required to take a mandatory COVID-19 test upon arrival. They’ll have to have their temperatures checked too; any ticket holder with a temperature of 100.4 or higher won’t get access inside. Visitors also have to wear approved facial coverings during their entire time inside the building and studio where SNL is filmed, and social distancing measures will be implemented in regards to seating arrangements.
