SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 40TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
This live special, celebrating 40 years of Saturday Night Live, is preceded by a red-carpet pre-show, at 7 p.m. ET, hosted by the hosts and personalities from the Today show. But it’s at 8 p.m. ET when this massive salute, uniting cast members, guests hosts and performers from various eras of SNL, for one live, lively, lengthy celebration. Serving as anchors are surviving cast members from the original cast of Not Ready for Prime Time Players, including Dan Aykroyd and Laraine Newman. And expect pretty much everybody, for what looks to be the biggest TV party since CBS celebrated its golden anniversary (counting back from its CBS Radio launch) in 1978. For my column about this particular SNL anniversary, and mine, see Bianculli’s Blog.