Chris Rock, Martin Short to host final ‘Saturday Night Live’ episodes of 2024
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Two Saturday Night Live alums will host the final 2024 episodes of the sketch comedy series.
Chris Rock and Martin Short are set to host the Dec. 14 and Dec. 21 episodes of the show, respectively. This marks Rock’s fourth time hosting SNL, while it will be Short’s third time hosting individually. He previously also co-hosted alongside friend Steve Martin in December 2022. The pair also co-hosted along with Chevy Chase in December 1986.
Gracie Abrams will make her SNL debut as the musical guest for the Dec. 14 show, while Hozier returns to Studio 8H to be the musical guest for the show on Dec. 21.
SNL returns Dec. 7 after a three-week hiatus. Paul Mescal is hosting the episode, which will feature musical guest Shaboozey.
Hulu has ordered a pilot for a new version of Prison Break, the hit television series that aired for five seasons from 2005 to 2017, Good Morning America has confirmed.
Mayans M.C. co-creator Elgin James is slated to write and executive produce the new series, which will come from 20th Television, a division of Disney Television Studios.
Along with Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring, former original series executive producers Dawn Olmstead, Marty Adelstein and Neal Moritz are on board to executive produce the new series.
The original show featured the thrilling story of two brothers, Lincoln Burrows and Michael Scofield — played by Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller, respectively — who devise an elaborate plan to break out of detention. The plot largely centered on Miller’s character, who attempts to spring his brother from prison after he was sentenced for a crime he did not commit.
The first four seasons of Prison Break were followed by a made-for-TV film revisiting the characters called The Final Break.
The success of that film led to a fifth season of the show on Fox, which concluded in 2017.
Disney is the parent company of 20th Television, ABC News and Good Morning America.
Moana 2 is riding a wave of box office success that just won’t quit.
The Disney animated sequel brought in $8.5 million at this box office this past weekend; nearly 50% down from last weekend but still good enough for first place. It’s domestic haul to date is over $337 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
Coming in second place for the second week in a row was Wicked: Part 1, with just under $7.3 million, followed by one of this week’s new releases: Marvel’s Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ariana DeBose. It brought in just under $2.5 million.
Another new release, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim — an anime film set more than 180 years before Peter Jackson‘s The Lord of the Rings trilogy — came in sixth place with 1.1 million.
1. Moana 2 – $8.5 million 2. Wicked: Part 1 – $7.25 million 3. Kraven the Hunter – $ 2.45 million 4. Gladiator II – $2.29 million 5. Red One – $1.3 million 6. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim – $1.1 million 7. Interstellar (Re-release) – $995,000 8. Pushpa: The Rule – Part 2 – $446,000 9. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – $405,000 10. Queer – $241,000
(SPOILERS) Fans really wanted to see what happened to Kevin Costner‘s John Dutton: The Sunday return of Yellowstone scored the best-ever season debut for the Paramount Network drama, ABC Audio has confirmed.
According to data from VideoAmp provided by Paramount Network, the first episode of season 5’s back half scored some 16.4 million viewers across both cable and its sister network CBS.
By comparison, the previous high-water mark for Taylor Sheridan‘s neo-Western was the season 5 premiere in November 2022, which was seen by 8.8 million viewers on Paramount Network and 10.3 million viewers across all platforms, according to the trade.
For the record, Costner said he only learned what became of his John Dutton the morning after the show premiered, telling The Michael Smerconish Program, “I mean, I’ve been seeing ads with my face all over the place and I’m thinking, ‘Gee … I’m not in this season.'”
He added with a laugh of the character’s demise, “Doesn’t make me want to rush to go see it.”
That said, he added of the show’s producers, “They’re pretty smart people. … They’re very good. And they’ll figure that out.”
He also reiterated the shooting of his Horizon movies didn’t interrupt the shooting of Yellowstone, as was alleged. “There was room, but it was difficult for them to keep their schedule.”
“I didn’t leave. I didn’t quit,” Costner insisted.
The debut episode brings to a head just how far John’s adopted son, Jamie, played by Wes Bentley, was willing to go to bring his dad down.
Bentley tells ABC Audio his journey with the scheming character has been “wild and unexpected.”
He teases the fans, “I always think I know where it’s going. I think I know something about Jamie, and then I get surprised.”
