SNL back on E!

[James]

Just saw it while flipping through the channels.

Anyone know the extent of the deal? It was an older episode with Will Ferral and Molly Shannon, and I thought E!'s old deal had them showing more recent episodes.

[Miss Modular]

They wrangled the rights away from Comedy Central.

[Todeswalzer]

Just saw it while flipping through the channels.

Anyone know the extent of the deal? It was an older episode with Will Ferral and Molly Shannon, and I thought E!'s old deal had them showing more recent episodes.

then they realized that the only viewer of these new episodes would be sports.

[James]

They wrangled the rights away from Comedy Central.

Yes and no. E! was showing newer episodes of SNL for a while, then when Comedy Central got Mad TV (HAHAHAHA), E! was the only place where you could see SNL. Not long after, it was gone.

According to Jixby, E! made a comment about SNL on a special of theirs that Lorne Michaels and/or NBC didn't like, so their deal was off.

Now it's back, and I was just wondering what the deal was.

[huond]

From what i usderstood, it wasn't a comment that got it pulled, but that "100 most outrageous SNL moments" thign E! made that wasn't part of their contract so lorne sued them. :/

[Jixby Phillips]

comedy central used to have the rights to every season to snl. When season 27 was up for grabs, E got it for whatever reason. They also got the first 5 seasons, comedy central wasn't showing them anyway. So for a while, comedy central just had seasons 6-26 to show, and they didn't stray too far out of the 90s.

Then, like hound said, they made some kind of clip special, and it wasn't part of their contract.

[James]

So did Comedy Central voluntarily give up airing SNL, and what is the deal between E! and NBC now?

[Captain Goodtimes]

They lost the bid, thats why they got madtv, which was to them "the next best thing", too bad that show sucks.

I don't think Comedy Central would give up the show they played at least 3 times a day.

Those were the days :(

[Girl Drink Drunk]

:lol2 then they realized that the only viewer of these new episodes would be sports.

[huond]

looks like they cleared that clip special, its airing on the 26th.

[Captain Goodtimes]

I watched it today, and I can safely say that I saw the episode with David Hyde Peirce with Musical Guest Live, at LEAST 40 times since i first aired.