‘SNL’ taps Inde Navarrette, Druski and John Mulaney as season 52 hosts
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What better way to celebrate the spookiest day of the year than with Inde Navarrette?
The Obsession star has been announced as the Saturday Night Live host for Halloween night, with Gracie Abrams making her return as musical guest. It will be Navarrette’s SNL debut — and the first time in six years SNL has aired live on Halloween night.
On Nov. 7, comedian and influencer Druski will be welcomed to Studio 8H as the first content creator to ever host the legendary sketch show. He’ll be accompanied by four-time musical guest The Strokes, who are on tour in support of their album Reality Awaits.
The following week will see John Mulaney return to SNL for his seventh hosting gig. Mulaney, a former SNL writer, will join the ranks of the show’s most frequent hosts with his Nov. 14 appearance, though he’s still 10 shy of beating Alec Baldwin’s record. Serving as musical guest will be Phoebe Bridgers, who recently released her third studio album, Lost Weekend.
SNL airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET and streams on Peacock.
Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande speak onstage as Universal Pictures presents a special ‘Wicked: For Good’ Q&A at Saban Media Center on Nov. 15, 2025, in North Hollywood, California. (Unique Nicole/Getty Images for Universal Pictures)
The West End revival of Sunday in the Park with George is no more.
Producers on the upcoming production made the announcement of the show’s cancellation to Instagram on Monday.
“The planned 2027 production of Sunday in the Park with George at the Barbican will no longer proceed as scheduled,” the post reads. “Empire Street Productions will retain the rights with a view to presenting the production in 2028. Further details will be announced in due course.”
This announcement comes two weeks after Jonathan Bailey dropped out of the show. He left almost a month after his Wicked co-star Ariana Grande announced she was exiting the same production.
“Ari is one of my dearest friends, and my support for her is unwavering. … After much consideration, I have decided to also step back from Sunday in the Park with George,” Bailey wrote on his Instagram Story at the time.
At the time of Bailey’s departure on Sept. 1, the production said it was continuing on and casting new actors to play the lead characters of George and Dot.
“Following Ariana Grande’s withdrawal, Jonathan Bailey has informed the producers that he has also decided to withdraw from Sunday in the Park with George. Work on the production continues,” the statement read. “Casting decisions are actively under way, and the creative team is reshaping the production around a new company while preserving the ambition and artistic integrity of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical.”
The statement concluded with, “Further casting and production details will be announced in due course.”
Grande left the production in August, when she announced plans to take a break from public-facing work following the end of her Eternal Sunshine Tour.
“Ariana will be taking a step back from visibility after she completes the Eternal Sunshine Tour,” her representative said in a statement to ABC News at the time.
“She looks forward to finishing the tour and ending it on a high note, both healthily and happily, and then taking a much-deserved break from public-facing work and appearances, which has led to endless, ongoing public scrutiny,” the statement continued.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is headed to streaming. The animated movie based on the popular Nintendo franchise will make its streaming debut to Peacock on July 30. The sequel film features a voice cast that includes Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Brie Larson, Donald Glover and Glen Powell. It finds Mario and Luigi traveling across the galaxy to save Rosalina from threats like Bowser Jr. …
The Reacher spinoff Neagley has received a release date on Prime Video. The new action series will premiere on Sept. 16. Additionally, season 4 of Reacher will debut its first three episodes on Aug. 12, followed by weekly new episodes that culminate with Neagley‘s debut. Maria Sten stars as the fan-favorite character Frances Neagley, a private investigator from Chicago and the former protégé of Jack Reacher …
There’s a new showrunner in town. Deadline reports that Dutton Ranch has found a brand-new showrunner in Benjamin Cavell. This comes after Paramount+ renewed its Yellowstone spinoff series for season 2 in June. Chad Feehan, who served as season 1 showrunner, exited the show ahead of its premiere …
Elizabeth Banks is set to star in a new series about Karen Read.
Prime Video has given a series order to a currently untitled drama series inspired by the Law&Crime and Audible Original podcast Karen. Banks will star as Read and also executive produce the show from showrunner, executive producer and writer Justin Noble.
The show follows what happens when a Boston police officer is found dead in the snow in the middle of a blizzard.
“All eyes are on his girlfriend, Karen Read. But when she and her legal team claim she’s not only innocent, but that she’s the victim of a conspiracy protecting the real assailants, the story spreads like wildfire, dividing a community in ways they’ve never seen,” according to its official synopsis. “As endless suspicion mounts, in multiple directions, this genre-bending true crime series explores society’s explosive obsession with true crime.”
The new series will span eight hourlong episodes.
Banks said in a press release that she grew up in Massachusetts, where she “watched this case divide families, friends, and entire towns.”
“We have spent years with this material because the questions it raises go far beyond one courtroom: why we choose the stories we believe, and what happens when trust in our institutions breaks down. Justin has written a series that respects and treats with care the complexity of what happened and the public reaction to it,” Banks continued.
Noble said Read’s story has more twists and turns than any other story he has consumed, whether it be real or fictional.
“It makes M. Night Shyamalan look like Nora Ephron. But the reason this story resonates and must be told is because of the profound takeaways it leaves us with: about a deeply imperfect justice system that urgently needs change, about the mistreatment of women by those who weaponize and abuse their power, and about a victim who deserves to be remembered,” Noble said.
