NBC Studios is trying something a bit different tonight. The Saturday Night comedy and music show is about to go live for the

Saturday Night, a behind-the-scenes story of the 90-minute build-up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live, is a loving and entertaining tribute to an American TV institution.

Saturday Night recounts the true, although dramatized, story of the October 11, 1975 premiere of the now-renowned live comedy sketch show, Saturday Night Live, created by Lorne Michaels (who is played by Gabriel LaBelle in the movie).

The last month or so has been big for surprise additions to Netflix’s streaming roster. A few weeks ago, the streaming service added a bunch of big Warner Bros. releases to the lineup without announcing them in the monthly newsletters.

On 11 October 1975, in Midtown Manhattan, a group of people are preparing to put on a show. The content may be silly, but the stakes are higher than the famous 66-storey building they’re in.

It ain’t live, but Saturday Night (now streaming on Netflix, in addition to VOD services like Amazon Prime Video) is a live wire, a sort-of real-time tick-tock dramatization of the countdown to the first-ever episode of Saturday Night in 1975 (trivia: it wasn’t officially named Saturday Night Live until a year later).

Lorne Michaels has built up a ton of grudges over 50 years of running "Saturday Night Live," perhaps none more infamous than his animus toward Sinead O'Connor. O'Connor tore a photo of Pope John ...

Upstairs, in the studio, aforementioned producer Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) is trying to wrangle the likes of Chevy Chase (Cory Michael Smith), Dan Aykroyd (Dylan O’Brien), Laraine Newman (Emily Fairn) and John Belushi (Matt Wood) into shape. Can the talented but untested, unknown cast pull it out of the bag when the big red light comes on?

Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels has changed his tune about Sinead O’Connor’s pope-trashing stunt on the show—which he once called “selfish” and “dishonest.” In the new documentary Ladies & Gentleman… 50 Years of SNL Music premiering ...

Chevy Chase is revealing what Lorne Michaels could have done to make him stay on Saturday Night Live. As longtime viewers of the sketch comedy show may remember — long before its landmark 50th season — Chase, 81, was a breakthrough cast member of SNL's ...

What was the last pure, original star-led comedy – one that didn’t involve superheroes, ghostbusters, Barbie, or wasn’t filtered through the lens of an action flick – to open in theatres? Maybe last year’s remake of Mean Girls,

Go behind the scenes of the first-ever SNL episode with Saturday Night on Netflix. This fast-paced movie recreates the chaos, humor, and tension that shaped the iconic show’s debut.