The NBC show will conclude its 45th season airing only 18 episodes opposed to the originally scheduled 21.
It’s been an interesting back half of the season for Saturday Night Live.
Production was suspended at Studio 8H due to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, just a week before John Krasinski was supposed to make his grand debut as SNL host. Then, after a few weeks off-air, the NBC sketch comedy show came back with two delightfully amusing at-home editions of the show, which featured pre-recorded sketches and skits from the SNL cast, filmed in their own homes.
Now, the 45th season is set to come to an end—a rather premature one, at that.
NBC will air the third and final «At Home» edition of SNL on Saturday, May 9; it’ll be the 18th episode of the season and also the season 45 finale. SNL was originally slated to run for 21 episodes as it has in previous years, however, the 2019-2020 season has been cut short—and understandably so, given the production difficulties.
