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‘SNL U.K.’ Budget No Joke at Estimated $2.6 Million Per Episode

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https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/snl-uk-episode-budget-2-million-pounds-1236696510/
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zeyore Mar 24, 2026 +714
Yes, but almost all of it is salaries for staff. So it's all good.
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colemon1991 Mar 24, 2026 +174
And it's not as high as the U.S. version so it's not a crazy number by comparison.
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BillyPotion Mar 24, 2026 +47
Damn what’s the cast get per episode in the US? I always assumed everyone but the 5+ year members were getting like $5-10K an episode.
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colemon1991 Mar 24, 2026 +104
It's around $4M. Which is impressive when you consider it's been around for 50 years and there's a lot of 25+ year veteran staff and projects that take almost all week to do for pre-recorded skits. I think the pay for the first 3 years is kinda low, probably in that range you list (I think Wikipedia only lists the early 2000s starting pay). But like year 5 and up pay is pretty good, especially when you have downtime to do movies on the side.
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BillyPotion Mar 24, 2026 +38
Ya and I didn’t factor in how many people are part of the production to make it run weekly live, and so many of them as you said for 25+ years
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wrosecrans Mar 24, 2026 +29
Yeah, the people who can have a whole set ready to shoot in two days, engineered so they can put it up and take it down in the middle of a show are absurdly good at what they do. Same with hair and makeup and costume that can have people completely switch characters from one sketch to the next. It's an army orchestrated to milliseconds precision.
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colemon1991 Mar 24, 2026 +21
You should see some of the behind the scenes things of the pre-recorded skits (sometimes there's some enlightenment in the youtube comments). Some of the music videos take 3 days to film, with "Here I Go" filming scenes during very loud construction. Props either have to make something from scratch or track down the item itself (Dune Popcorn Bucket) that must be its own nightmarish task. Goth Kid on Vacation apparently took longer to film because they all kept laughing (the guitarist commented on youtube about how they got actual musicians but none of the instruments were plugged up during filming). There's a good podcast with Seth Meyers and Lonely Island about each Lonely Island video that is illuminating too. And that's just the pre-recorded skits. I can't imagine how much is done for everything else. Hosts get like $5k and I have no clue what cameos may cost. But it's a week of prep so hosts are getting like $100/hr to act alongside the cast.
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Team7UBard Mar 24, 2026 +2
Iirc when Alec Baldwin was playing Trump he said it he got paid $1000 a show.
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colemon1991 Mar 25, 2026 +2
I mean, he wasn't hosting and doing a single skit, across multiple weeks. I can see $1000 being the offer (though, Baldwin's been on so often I figured it'd be more).
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Team7UBard Mar 25, 2026 +3
Yeah, I think he said that’s their standard cameo rate but obviously this was oh my god nearly ten years ago.
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clashrendar Mar 24, 2026 +5
I wonder how much of this is actually paying Comcast/NBC for studio space, production costs, etc. A lot of show business accounting is self dealing. Like if Disney pays $100 million for special effects on a movie, but the special effect firm is Industrial Light and Magic, which they own.
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colemon1991 Mar 24, 2026 +3
I know they do that to avoid residuals based on profits, hence asking for residuals based on gross. But it definitely allows them to shift funds around to operate at a loss for tax reasons and still profit. The irony for me is that they haven't expanded SNL's presence in 30 Rock at all. SNL has a warehouse for additional storage somewhere because they've been outgrowing the space.
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Mysmokingbarrel Mar 25, 2026 +2
Pay is still not bad as far as I understand for a junior actor… like they’re not doing badly compared to normal people they’re just not celebrity rich I think it’s like 200-300k but I’m too lazy to double check at the moment
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Burgerpocolypse Mar 25, 2026 +1
To be fair, one would not equate gold with copper. That’s not a slight on SNL UK, but rather saying American media makes astronomically more money by comparison, so of course it’s not a crazy number when compared to US budgets and revenue, but when compared to UK budgets and revenue, yeah it’s a pretty crazy number.
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colemon1991 Mar 25, 2026 +2
Further down in the discussion, I note it's not crazy because SNL US has 50 years under its belt and that includes a lot of veterans who've been with the show for a long time for its $4M/episode budget. They've had their space and they know how to rotate out talent and everything. UK has to spend some money upfront to get started so of course it's gonna sound high. But the UK also has better workers rights so starting salaries are good. The UK version also runs longer per episode and has a shorter run, muddying the waters further on a proper comparison, but we can see where the costs are coming from.
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Seafaringhorsemeat Mar 24, 2026 +7
Jesus Christ, Lemon. Do you know how many Fun Cookers we could ship for that?
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Calchal Mar 25, 2026 +2
Also £1.9m is pretty standard for a high end UK show these days.
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berserkgobrrr Mar 24, 2026 +139
Is SNL UK going to be a weekly? How does this compare to the other weekly shows in the UK? I can't imagine Taskmaster / WILTY / 8 out of 10 cats does countdown costing this much.
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thePinguOverlord Mar 24, 2026 +88
Taskmaster is genius in utilising budget. All the studio stuff is filmed in a few days. With the recorded challenges are filmed with one celebrity at a time (most of the time), and each celeb does theirs in a few days. Suddenly you have a 10 weeks worth of episodes. I assume SNLUK is because of the crunch of creating the skits and having a weekly turnaround, also to get the guests and musical talent.
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GingerPrinceHarry Mar 25, 2026 +1
And the wastage. Unlike a panel show most of the written material will be cut before the final script is locked done, entire sets, props even filmed sketches might be junked to make room for something else more topical etc
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HMWYA Mar 24, 2026 +29
This has the disadvantage of the studio needing to be hired for (at present) 8 weeks in a row for the live show, and rehearsals during the week. Studio hire is extremely expensive. Compare that to something like WILTY or Taskmaster, which can record an entire series in the space of less than a week, and it adds up quickly before you even consider the significant difference in staff, set and costume costs.
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The-Soul-Stone Mar 24, 2026 +88
Forget panel shows (most of them probably have 5-figure budgets) this is more than most high end UK drama shows cost. The BBC budgets most of those those at just over £1m per hour. Closest point of reference is probably Doctor Who. It’s an absolutely insane amount of money for Sky to blow on this.
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MajorFuckingDick Mar 24, 2026 +34
The international rights are likely huge. I know Canadian rights already got bought. I watched it with a friend who put it best "If this ends up just being edgier SNL I'll keep watching." The underage skit was peak and if it leans towards that more than the limp cold open It will be in my watch rotation.
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Slipperytitski Mar 24, 2026
Panel shows are easy though the initial cost of building a single set then you just have to pay wages
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urgasmic Mar 24, 2026 +17
Yeah weekly, 8 episodes
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Winnie-the-Broo Mar 24, 2026 +4
So far, I think it was initially 6, then 8 but with view to expand the season if it goes well.
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WittsyBandterS Mar 24, 2026
US isn't weekly. it's 3 weeks on, a few weeks off, 3 weeks on.
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Seafaringhorsemeat Mar 25, 2026
Half Fortnightly. Opposite Chums.
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nonsensestuff Mar 24, 2026 +84
I interned at SNL over a decade ago in costumes— I literally do not think a budget existed. Never heard anyone say, “oh that’s too much”. We’d buy a Gucci suit for a Weekend Update segment that lasted less than 2 minutes.
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smith7018 Mar 24, 2026 +24
What happened to the suit after the segment? :0
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nonsensestuff Mar 24, 2026 +58
Just gets added to the costume inventory
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xinzaha Mar 25, 2026 -3
Did you ever check the costume inventory for a gucci suit in the right size before buying one
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nonsensestuff Mar 25, 2026 +1
No because we were buying the exact same suit that someone wore on the red carpet and that would not have existed already in the inventory
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magicaleb Mar 24, 2026 +5
Any more fun facts that stood out during your time there?
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nonsensestuff Mar 24, 2026 +54
Kate McKinnon was very quiet and didn’t really hang around much like some others did. I heard her talk about how people are often disappointed that she’s introverted and quiet irl on Amy Poehler’s podcast haha so it does check out. We shared costume storage space with Jimmy Fallon’s show— so we’d be often running up and down the stairs grabbing stuff from their floor. Storage in that building is limited and stuff would be stored in random closets on different floors. I was given directions to get to a specific closet to get something and nearly went into Lorne Michael’s office cause the closet was opposite from his office door and I almost opened the wrong door 😝 The sketch with Jonah Hill playing a game show contestant who broke the toilet at the studio was inspired by Jonah Hill for real breaking the toilet in his dressing room at SNL in the past. I got to go to the big finale after party at the end of the season and it was crazy how many celebs were there… I was dancing with Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and all the women from Brooklyn 99. Taylor Swift stayed in the VIP area talking to Lorne— I just remember she was crazy tall. I for sure thought she’d be performing the next season after seeing how long she was talking to him (her 1989 album came out later that year).
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Xeroxenfree Mar 25, 2026 +9
I stood next to Kate for damn near 20 minutes once. Only shared a hello. 10/10 interaction.
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ASpellingAirror Mar 24, 2026 +181
The UK has such a steady stream of amazing young comedic voices, giving them an additional path to be creative and get noticed can only be a good thing. Honestly surprised this idea wasnt attempted sooner.  My only hope is that they allow this show to find its own structure and don’t force it to be a copy of the original SNL with UK accents. 
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Kevbot1000 Mar 24, 2026 +70
Have you watched the premiere? They did a pretty great job of separating themselves from the US equivalent, while maintaining the spirit of the brand. The extra bite of British comedy lends itself perfectly to these sketches.
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where_is_the_cheese Mar 24, 2026 +18
The first episode wasn't bad, but to me it felt like a lot of the skits fell in an awkward place between American and British, losing the better parts of both.
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db37 Mar 24, 2026 -1
I've only seen a couple of skits from the premier and I thought it was just a repeat of the original SNL, which was disappointing. When I do watch SNL I find it to be more awkward than funny, and I'm frequently left wondering if this is the best the writers could come up with.
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Naugrith Mar 24, 2026 -5
SNL is weird. Supposedly professional comedians but I've never seen a clip where they weren't all corpsing helplessly.
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Karffs Mar 24, 2026 +5
Does it ruin your immersion? 🙄
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ASpellingAirror Mar 24, 2026
I had not seen it. So glad to hear!
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raysofdavies Mar 24, 2026 +5
It felt very British to me, way outside the accents and language (nonce!).
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CFBCoachGuy Mar 25, 2026 +1
They did attempt it sooner. There was a Saturday Live that ran in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A ton of then-early career comics and actors appeared on it. Fry and Laurie, Robbie Coltrane, French and Saunders, Craig Ferguson, John Sparkes, Morwenna Banks, Harry Enfield, Craig Charles, Hale and Pace, Jeremy Hardy, Emma Thompson, Phil Cornwell, Julian Clary, Paul Merton, Nick Hancock, Jo Brand, Joe Pasquale, Sean Hughes, Jim Moir, Armstrong and Miller, Tony Hawks, Milton Jones, Tim Vine, Andy Parsons. All were early figures. Plus it featured some of the first televised standup appearances from Eddie Izzard, Louie Anderson, Rita Rudner, Joy Behar, Lee Evans, and Emo Phillips.
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snappyclunk Mar 24, 2026 -4
There are plenty of options for young British and Irish comedians, you literally can’t move for panel shows, podcasts and comedy venues in the UK, I don’t understand why anyone thinks a US knock-off programme is what anyone wants. There have been multiple attempts to copy US chat programmes , late night programmes and comedy programmes-none of them work and they are all cancelled after a few weeks.
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godisanelectricolive Mar 24, 2026 +17
None of those options are big budget sketch shows though. The only places for sketch comedians is self-produced online or live in comedy venues for a limited audience. This brings live sketch and TikTok/Instagram comedians to a much larger audience. And give comedians an option to play characters and write things that don’t have a place on panel shows.
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snappyclunk Mar 24, 2026 -8
Sketch shows aren’t something that are really made in the UK anymore, although there are a couple. As far as I can tell the people on SNL are stand ups and comedic actors who have plenty of other options. I’d be interested to see a British sketch show with UK comedians, young or otherwise, I’m not interested in a US sketch show that was past it’s sell-by date about 30 years ago even it is has some British people in it. Apparently the viewing figures are awful, so I doubt this is going to last long.
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godisanelectricolive Mar 24, 2026 +9
The live viewing figures are really good for Sky which is never high and they usually base their decisions off other metrics. They'll have to base it off of social media engagement, YouTube views and Now subscriptions. Presumably also international figures. Sketch not being made in the UK anymore is the reason why a lot of British comedians are excited about the show existing. A lot of comedians on the show, not just on the cast but also writing team, have done sketch comedy before but they can't get a TV show. There are a lot of live sketch groups in the UK who you can see performing at the Edinburgh Fringe who've been dreaming of doing sketch for a bigger audience but can't. Sketch comedy used to occupy a niche that's now been taken over by panel shows and even the total number of panel shows have decreased in recent years. George Fouracres for example was in a sketch group called Daphne with Phil Wong and Jason Forbes. They had a radio show years ago but wasn't able to get a TV series. Al Roberts and Jonno Johnson who are writers are part of the group Sheeps. Al Nash and Jack Shep both make online sketches. You also have a bunch of writers who've also make sketches online or are in live sketch groups. Celeste Dring was part of a sketch group called Lazy Susan which was briefly on TV but it was extremely low budget and only had one short pilot and then an order for four 14-minute episodes years later on BBC Three. The very rare sketch shows that do get made don't get any support or publicity. If it does well then breakout stars will be able to get more projects of their own greenlit that they couldn't before, which is a big part of the appeal for the US show.
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joannerosalind Mar 24, 2026 +3
Yeah a lot of great sketch groups have really struggled to find a space on UK tele to fit their work, hence a lot of awkward segments slotted into things like 8 out of 10 cats do countdown etc. Either you were successful enough to get an entire sketch show to yourself or you had to try and convert your work into a sitcom or stand-up which didn't always work. Hopefully SNL UK can last long enough for sketch comedians to want to get on it and even shake it up a little.
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godisanelectricolive Mar 24, 2026 +4
Right, the point is that there are certain kinds of comedians who would do well with a format like this who don't necessarily work as well with available formats at the moment. And right now basically nobody new is successful enough to get a sketch show by themselves. They've already attracted a lot of sketch comedians so if they can keep it going it can be a sort of training ground or finishing school for comedic actors, which was the thing that SNL did best at.
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Karffs Mar 24, 2026 +4
> I’d be interested to see a British sketch show with UK comedians, young or otherwise That’s literally what this is. I think we can talk the only thing you’re actually *interested* in is having a moan on the internet.
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snappyclunk Mar 24, 2026 -5
It’s an American sketch show, mirroring an American format made by Americans. It just has some British people in it. This is the McDonalds of TV programmes.
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Karffs Mar 24, 2026 +6
It’s not made by Americans. British TV has a long history of shows using the live sketch comedy format.
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snappyclunk Mar 24, 2026 -1
It’s literally made by an American company, produced by Lorne Michaels who also produces the US version. It follows the exact format of the US version and the brief clips I’ve seen look exactly like the US version. Performers reading from queue cards, celebrity guest doing a monologue, spoof news desk section, musical interlude… If you like SNL, I’m sure it’s perfectly fine. I hope that the British cast get a nice career boost from it. There are lots of great British sketch shows that I’d much rather watch.
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Karffs Mar 24, 2026 +3
Sky is a British subsidiary and British broadcaster. The lead producer is James Longman. He’s British (had an AMA recently). Improper use of *lit-uh-rally* is American.
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snappyclunk Mar 24, 2026 +1
Sky, a British subsidiary of Comcast. I’m sure they employ some British people. McDonalds have some British employees as well but I think most people would recognise they are an American company.
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Isserley_ Mar 24, 2026 +1
The audience figures were good. You don't know what you're talking about.
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snappyclunk Mar 24, 2026 +1
The reports I saw were around 200k viewers, that’s about 0.3% of the population, for 2.6 million dollars. How long do you think the production company will think that’s a good return on investment?
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Isserley_ Mar 24, 2026 +1
That's solid for Sky One in today's TV landscape. Also if you want to talk ROI, the ROI for a show like this will be about much more than live audience figures.
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Isserley_ Mar 24, 2026 +1
https://deadline.com/2026/03/saturday-night-live-uk-viewing-figures-1236761679/ Here you go, if you're interested in actually learning
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glerb_glerb Mar 24, 2026 +6
Aren’t the panel shows infamously tight knit and inaccessible? It’s just like Rob Beckett on rotation.
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snappyclunk Mar 24, 2026 +2
I don’t know, the only one I watch regularly is Taskmaster which does a really good job of giving opportunities to upcoming comedians.
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EquinsuOcha Mar 24, 2026 +2
Says the country that killed off Mock the Week. Shame on you! Shame!
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fishforce1 Mar 24, 2026 +2
But they resurrected it as well (on TLC)
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Dennyisthepisslord Mar 24, 2026 +65
With 250k watching it live... 8 episodes a year. If Comcast, who owns sky, buy itv I could see then moving it to there.
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kranitoko Mar 24, 2026 +22
SNL on a channel like ITV makes way too much sense. The question is if ITV would allow the kinda of sketches SNL are famous for on their channel...
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Dennyisthepisslord Mar 24, 2026 +13
Comcast are trying to buy itv so....
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CloneArranger Mar 24, 2026 +2
You mean, “bad”? Zing! Take that, beloved comedy institution!
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Minute_Tomatillo9730 Mar 24, 2026 +3
Exactly what Marina Hyde said on the Rest is Entertainment
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aigroti Mar 24, 2026 +3
If it's a topical show it also has basically no replayability. Consider most classic panel shows and you can basically watch them at any point.
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Kobe_stan_ Mar 24, 2026 +14
it's a lot for a UK sketch show but that's actually not that high for a show these days
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Impressive-Potato Mar 24, 2026 +5
Considered very small for an episodic. Heated Rivalry works out to 2.1M USD per episode and people are falling over themselves over how low the budget is.
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Sir_roger_rabbit Mar 24, 2026 +13
Wow... This has to be a mega hit either with viewers or as a lot of way shows are going popular on YouTube to jusifty the budget. That's a lot of money for a UK show. Even with a US network backing
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Ok-Metal-4719 Mar 24, 2026 +4
It says “even one running to 75-minutes”. That including commercials?
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therealadamaust Mar 24, 2026 +3
Yes.
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Ok-Metal-4719 Mar 24, 2026 +1
That’s feels better than what we get. Could make for a tighter show. Thanks.
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StupidMastiff Mar 24, 2026 +2
Probably not. I think it's total run time is 90 minutes, and there can only be 12 minutes of adverts per clock hour, so an average episode would run 72 minutes-ish.
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therealadamaust Mar 24, 2026 +2
It includes adverts. Air time was 22:00-23:15.
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StupidMastiff Mar 24, 2026 +1
Oh, I thought the person I replied to meant that even one (episode out of the 8) running to 75 minutes. Which makes no sense now that I think about it.
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Root-magic Mar 24, 2026 +3
So this is a problem because it’s taxpayer funded? Why would anyone care about what Sky tv is paying?
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jangle_bo_jingles Mar 24, 2026 +2
Its not Tax player funded, but its still a large budget for a UK comedy show - especially one without much replayability
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Abba_Fiskbullar Mar 24, 2026 +6
There's a business case for this or they wouldn't do it.
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CBattles6 Mar 25, 2026 +1
Plus they expanded from 6 to 8 episodes after they knew what the budget was. I have a feeling they're doing just fine.
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Bitter-Protection820 Mar 24, 2026 +5
About £2m for a hourish of tv, is high. However it is. Co-production with Peacock in the US, so does have US streaming giant money
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HMWYA Mar 24, 2026 +9
Also HBO Max in Australia and Crave in Canada. I’d imagine international streaming deals are a large part of why the budget is able to be so high.
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TorqueWheelmaker Mar 24, 2026 +3
For anyone wondering, US SNL is about $4M an episode, and typically about 20 episodes per season.
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Nardo9 Mar 24, 2026 +3
The big mistake Sky is making is that they are restricting what they're putting online. SNL US had its big cultural renaissance thanks to the Fey/Palin sketches because YouTube made it easily accessible and digestible. When I wake up on Sunday morning, nearly every sketch from the previous night's SNL is already available for me to watch if I wish on the SNL YT channel So far, Sky has uploaded the opening two sketches, Fey's monologue, one pre-recorded sketch, 90 seconds from the Weekend Update segment, and both Wet Leg performances. They have this stupid idea that they should use SNL UK to entice people to get on their streaming service Now TV. If they want SNL UK to be a major part of the cultural conversation, they need to make it as easily accessible as quickly as possible to most people in the country in order for it to become part of the conversation. Those two sketches and the Fey monologue have 1-2m views each, which is 5-10x the number of people who watched the show, and I would assume a higher number than are active Now TV subscribers. The lack of thought in the people who run TV staggers me.
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mcon96 Mar 24, 2026 +2
Yeah I tried watching it but was met with a “upgrade your Peacock subscription to view” and when it wasn’t on YouTubeTV either, I just watched the clips on YouTube and then gave up. Like what’s the plan here? At least let me watch it with ads…
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do_or_pie Mar 24, 2026 +2
It's only the first week, and we don't know what the international distribution deals say they can put out before it is available in each territory. Also, they need to keep a premium on actually tuning in to watch the show. They've just spent a fuckton on marketing telling people it is on Sky One, it looks like they are using it as a big brand push piece to get people to tune back in after a disastrous rebranding.
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hart37 Mar 24, 2026 +7
That is an absolutely bonkers budget for a sketch show
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do_or_pie Mar 24, 2026 +2
A large chunk of that cost is the marketing Sky is pumping in to it to remind people that Sky One is back (after a terrible rebranding) Also, this is startup costs to get the machine running spread over the first series. I assume that budget per episode will be 3/4 to half once the marketing and long term contracts for production space are sorted. And they wouldn't be spending this if the international distribution deals were not in place,
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emotional-knapsack Mar 25, 2026 +2
It’s been actual years since the UK invested any money into comedy compared to what is spent on dramas, so it’s about time
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drf_101 Mar 24, 2026 +8
I will never understand why people care about the budgets of shows the way that they do.
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DanS1993 Mar 24, 2026 +20
If you enjoy a show it’s more likely to continue, if the ratings aren’t great, if it’s c**** to produce. 
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drf_101 Mar 24, 2026 +6
Sure but check out how many people act like it’s their money on here.
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ComputerDecent463 Mar 24, 2026 +4
Because TV is dying and we all want it to stay alive for as long as possible.
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HerrTriggerGenji21 Mar 24, 2026 +2
I’m an accountant and I like numbers
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KanyeWestsPoo Mar 24, 2026 +3
That's not going to work long term then
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MrSnazzyTrousers Mar 24, 2026 +2
That's way too much and not viable in this streaming economy....it's 1 hour of sketch comedy?
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a_hampton Mar 24, 2026 +3
It’s an hour and half but the sketches can get stream/click revenue as well.
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MrSnazzyTrousers Mar 24, 2026 +1
Wait, the Uk version is an hour and a half? SNL is US is 1 hr with no ads. Not saying you're wrong but pretty sure the actual "show is an an hour" with 30 min ad breaks.
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drunkandy Mar 24, 2026 +4
\> SNL is US is 1 hr with no ads.  The US version has always been 90 minutes with ads
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MrSnazzyTrousers Mar 24, 2026 +1
I have to upvote you because you owned me. I need to stay of reddit when i'm sick.
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blond_nirvana Mar 24, 2026 +1
NPR's The Indicator (Planet Money) just did on episode on this, too. https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/nx-s1-5754763/the-multimillion-dollar-saturday-night-live-uk-gamble
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Aggressive_Chuck Mar 24, 2026 +1
That's insane, no wonder Tiktok and Youtube are doing so well, they can produce comedy sketches on a fraction of the budget.
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KingGiles92 Mar 24, 2026 +1
It's so sad that British culture has fallen to this American c***
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monchota Mar 24, 2026 +1
The UK , over budgets everything then blames everyone else for it failing
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JuniorAd1439 Mar 24, 2026 +1
D.O.A
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BramptonBatallion Mar 24, 2026 +1
Won’t last long
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hirarycrinton Mar 25, 2026 +1
Is that supposed to sound high?
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Zealousideal-Low3388 Mar 25, 2026 +1
I can’t think of anything on the air in Britain right now that will have a higher budget, except for American imports.
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Glittering-Voice-409 Mar 25, 2026 +1
Never knew it existed...
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Sea_Comedian_3941 Mar 25, 2026 +1
It will be well worth it...
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Awkward_Squad Mar 25, 2026 +1
And they still had to rent Graham Norton’s studio for it?
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clearpepsithree Mar 25, 2026 +1
Is that considered a lot or a little? The production seemed great.
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Adultery Mar 25, 2026 +1
They’re allowed to hang dong
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zacarooni Mar 25, 2026 +1
Per viewer it cost $11.50 to make
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Familiar-Banana-8116 Mar 25, 2026 +1
I am really rooting for this. SNL getting a bit of a refresher is a good thing. This was never on my radar, but it fits the bill. UK humor is perfect for it. If it works in the UK they need to branch out to other countries as well. I bet the French could have fun with it as well.
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redpeh Mar 24, 2026
money doesn't make it funny
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bomilk19 Mar 24, 2026 -1
$2 million goes straight to Lorne’s bank account.
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mike10dude Mar 24, 2026 +3
there was a french Canadian version of snl that only lasted one season but the cast and crew got another similar show right away on the same channel apparently a big part of the reason that they did was to save money on the licensing fees
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herrybaws Mar 24, 2026
Can't see it lasting. What I've seen of it seemed very "Brits" rather than British. American jokes in British accents. Even the advertising was a bit condescending; "What do The Brits love...ah yes beans on toast!"
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GrownDandilion Mar 24, 2026 -2
2.6 million id have expected more jokes to land. How much do we need to pay to get Josh Johnson to give it a crack
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