SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET
Last weekend, I wrote about NBC’s scheduled repeat of SNL – recommending that viewers tune in even though it was a rerun from March 7, the last show televised before the pandemic changed the rules, at least for a while, about social gatherings in New York. Daniel Craig was the host, and the premiere of his latest James Bond film had just been postponed, one of the first artistic “victims” of COVID-19. I noted that the program, from only a month before, captured a world now gone, when artists and audiences could gather and mingle freely and without concern. But SNL threw us all a curve, and presented, for the second time since the pandemic began changing how we lived and interacted, a Saturday Night Live At Home edition. That first one was a defiant and inspirational burst of comedy – but last week’s unexpectedly appearing second edition, hosted by Brad Pitt as a disbelieving Dr. Fauci (pictured), was fabulous. So tonight, NBC tells us, the SNL crew will take a break, and will show us that Daniel Craig rerun after all. But who knows? Either way, it’s well worth tuning in…