Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Thursday

Television series

Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday is an American limited-run series broadcast on NBC. It is a political satire news show spin-off from Saturday Night Live, featuring that show's Weekend Update segment. It initially ran for three 30-minute episodes in October 2008, during the lead-up to the 2008 United States presidential election.

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Also known as	also known as +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Genre	Comedy Satire News Parody +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Created by	Lorne Michaels +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Based on	based on +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Developed by	developed by +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Written by	Seth Meyers (head writer) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Screenplay by	screenplay by +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Story by	story by +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Directed by	Don Roy King +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Creative director	creative director +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Presented by	Michael Che (season 4) Colin Jost (season 4) Seth Meyers (season 1–3) Amy Poehler (season 1–2) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Starring	Fred Armisen (season 1–3) Vanessa Bayer (season 3) Aidy Bryant (season 3) Pete Davidson (season 4) Mikey Day (season 4) Abby Elliott (season 2) Will Forte (season 1–2) Bill Hader (season 1–4) Darrell Hammond (season 1–2) Leslie Jones (season 4) Taran Killam (season 3) Kate McKinnon (season 3) Alex Moffat (season 4) Bobby Moynihan (season 1–3) Nasim Pedrad (season 2–3) Jay Pharoah (season 3) Tim Robinson (season 3) Andy Samberg (season 1–2) Cecily Strong (season 3–4) Jason Sudeikis (season 1–3) Kenan Thompson (season 1–4) Kristen Wiig (season 1–2) Casey Wilson (season 1) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Judges	judges +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Voices of	voices of +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Narrated by	Don Pardo (season 1–3) Darrell Hammond (season 4) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Music by	music by +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Theme music composer	Jeff Richmond +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Opening theme	opening theme +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ending theme	ending theme +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Composer	composer +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Country of origin	United States +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Original language	English +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No. of seasons	4 +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No. of episodes	11 (list of episodes) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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Executive producer	Lorne Michaels +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Producer	Steve Higgins Marci Klein Ken Aymong (supervising) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
News editor	news editor +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Production location	production location +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Cinematography	cinematography +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Animator	animator +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Editor	editor +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Camera setup	camera setup +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Running time	30 minutes +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Production company	production company +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Distributor	distributor +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Budget	budget +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

RELEASE

Original network	NBC +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Picture format	picture format +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Audio format	audio format +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
First shown in	first shown in +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Original release	October 9, 2008 (2008-10-09) – August 24, 2017 (2017-08-24) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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Preceded by	preceded by +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Followed by	followed by +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Related shows	Saturday Night Live +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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Six episodes were ordered for the second season but due to low ratings only three were produced.

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