Alas, "Saturday Night Live"-heads will have to wait a little longer to see Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson, and the rest of the Season 47 company back on their screens. There will be no new episode of the show on Saturday, January 1, nor any weekend in the near future, if precedent is any indication.
Although NBC has not yet announced an official end date to the show's winter hiatus, we know from past experience that "SNL" often waits until the final two weeks of January to make its midseason return. And, with the Omicron variant still hanging like a cloud of uncertainty over the production side of things, the cast and crew will likely remain on guard to ensure they can perform in an environment that is safe for them and the audience. For now, all we know is that "SNL" may return sometime between late January and early February, though we certainly hope it will come back a bit sooner than that.
Instead of a new episode, the show's 11:30 p.m. ET timeslot will be occupied by a rerun of the Kieran Culkin-hosted show, which featured Ed Sheeran as the musical guest that originally aired on November 6 (via NBC). It's one of the season's highlights so far, and hopefully, we'll get more of those to tide us over as we await the right time for "SNL" to return.
