I saw a story at Vanity Fair's website, which was just a link to this interview at Deadline <http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/lorne-michaels-exclusive-interview-emmys-2014-saturday-night-live-late-night-tv/> and some breathless commentary. In the interview Lorne talked a little about this history and the NBC late night shows as well as SNL. Here's an excerpt about the hard season:
*DEADLINE: You’re coming off a rebuilding season at *SNL*. How challenging was it?* *MICHAELS:* We lost four leading men at the end of last season, Fred and Bill and Andy and Jason, all of whom were very seasoned, very strong cast. We lost Kristin the year before. All have been here a long time, and you get used to how good people are. Losing the fifth leading man in Seth (in early February) was a hard thing, in the middle of a season, because there’s only one other time in the 39 years that we ever changed Update in the middle of a season, and that was Norm Macdonald to Colin Quinn. And that was more because a whole other set of reasons, but I think that that made it a much harder thing, in addition to having to focus on launching Jimmy and launching Seth. But *SNL*, we put a lot of pressure, a lot of new people. It was a hard season. *DEADLINE: Are you considering any casting changes heading into next season?* *MICHAELS:* Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We’re still in the middle of rebuilding. So, there will be changes this year. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
