Saturday Evening Dwell common Michael Longfellow is exiting the NBC late evening collection after three seasons, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Longfellow is the third SNL castmember to depart in latest weeks, following Devon Walker and featured participant Emil Wakim. Longfellow’s departure, nonetheless, is a little more shocking, as he had been seen as a attainable future host for Weekend Replace, the anchored topical phase that runs in the midst of every week’s episode.
Weekend Replace has been anchored by Colin Jost and Michael Che for greater than a decade, and Longfellow had appeared regularly through the recurring phase, in numerous roles.
Season 51 of SNL is anticipated to endure important modifications, with the present’s longest-tenured castmember Kenan Thompson teasing as a lot earlier this yr after the present’s fiftieth anniversary celebration, which included a star-studded stay particular and a live performance at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor.
Creator Lorne Michaels is claimed to be making the important thing casting selections this week, with different veteran castmembers anticipated to exit, and a slate of recent names anticipated to affix the forged of the variability present when it returns to NBC Oct. 4.
Deadline first reported Longfellow’s exit.