Michael Che and Colin Jost are Going to Prime Time

 

Michael Che and Colin Jost are getting four primetime hour specials that will air this summer while Saturday Night Live is in hiatus. Beginning August 10th, Weekend Update will run with other cast members appearing as characters and in guest spots.

NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt said “SNL is having its best season in a quarter of a century — how many shows can say that?! —  so we didn’t want them to take the summer off,” adding, “We’re thrilled to have Colin Jost and Michael Che continuing their unique brand of news with fresh ‘Weekend Update’ shows in primetime this August.”

NBC has not specified whether they will be hour specials or what time they would air.

Last July, Jost and Che did two off-season specials to give their takes on both the Democratic and Republican conventions on MSNBC.  They went live about an hour following Vice-Presidential nominee Mike Pence’s address to the RNC and the country in Cleveland. Then the following week in Philly, they were live with a Democratic edition of WU following speeches by President Obama, VP Joe Biden and Vice-Presidential nominee Tim Kaine.

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