Demetriou and Dimoldenberg join Goldblum as SNL UK season two hosts
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Saturday Night Live UK has confirmed the next two hosts for its second season, adding to the previously announced opening night with Jeff Goldblum. Stath Lets Flats star Jamie Demetriou will host on 19 September alongside musical guest Royal Blood, while Chicken Shop Date creator Amelia Dimoldenberg will front the show on 26 September with singer Rachel Chinouriri performing. The confirmations follow last week's announcement that Goldblum would open the new season this weekend with CMAT as musical guest.
The British version of the long-running American sketch show launched on Sky in March, with Tina Fey hosting the debut episode and Wet Leg providing music; subsequent hosts have included Jamie Dornan, Riz Ahmed and Nicola Coughlan, alongside musical guests such as Kasabian and Foo Fighters. Season two comprises an initial run of six episodes beginning 12 September, with further episodes planned for 2027, and all 11 original cast members are returning. Sky has billed the run as "unpredictable, must-watch Saturday night television," though the show has also drawn controversy, including criticism earlier this year over a joke by cast member Ania Magliano comparing Mark Zuckerberg to Hitler.
- Demetriou and Dimoldenberg confirmed as SNL UK's next two season two hosts
- Royal Blood and Rachel Chinouriri to provide musical performances on those shows
- Season two runs six episodes from 12 September, all cast returning
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Saturday Night Live UK is the British adaptation of the American sketch comedy institution, produced for Sky, with a rotating celebrity host and musical guest each week, much like the original US format. The first series launched in March, with Tina Fey as the debut host, and featured guests including Jamie Dornan, Riz Ahmed and Nicola Coughlan. The show is now preparing for a second season.
The new run begins in mid-September with actor Jeff Goldblum hosting the opening episode, followed by comedian and actor Jamie Demetriou, known for Stath Lets Flats, and then Amelia Dimoldenberg, creator of the interview series Chicken Shop Date. Each episode pairs a host with a musical performer, and the full cast from the first series is returning for this run.
The story matters because it signals how the UK version of the show is building its own identity, drawing on British comedy and entertainment figures alongside international names, while continuing in a later batch of episodes planned for 2027. The programme has also attracted some controversy since launching, including criticism over a sketch joke made by one cast member.
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Sky has confirmed two more presenters for the second series of Saturday Night Live UK, with Jamie Demetriou and Amelia Dimoldenberg set to take the host's chair in the weeks following Jeff Goldblum's season-opening turn. Demetriou, best known for creating and starring in Stath Lets Flats, will front the second instalment on 19 September alongside musical guest Royal Blood, while Dimoldenberg, the presenter behind the online interview series Chicken Shop Date, takes charge a week later on 26 September with singer-songwriter Rachel Chinouriri providing the musical entertainment. Goldblum himself opens the run this weekend to launch the new season.
Demetriou's appointment continues an existing relationship with the production: he worked as a consultant during the show's first season and has established ties to its writing team, having previously worked with head writer Daran Jonno Johnson and counting writer Al Roberts, who appears as his on-screen friend in Stath Lets Flats, among his regular collaborators. Dimoldenberg, meanwhile, brings her own recent brush with the music world to the role, having fronted the video for Maisie Peters' single 'My Regards' earlier this year, according to one report.
The new season, which comprises six episodes before the show breaks and returns in early 2027, sees the entire cast from the first run reprising their roles, among them Hammed Animashaun, Ayoade Bamgboye, Larry Dean, Celeste Dring, George Fouracres, Ania Magliano, Annabel Marlow, Al Nash, Jack Shep, Emma Sidi and Paddy Young. Saturday Night Live UK first launched on Sky in March, with Tina Fey hosting the premiere, and past editions have drawn on a wide range of hosts and musical guests, including Hannah Waddingham, Nicola Coughlan, Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed, alongside acts such as Wet Leg, Kasabian and Foo Fighters. The show is produced for Sky by Universal Television Alternative Studio's UK arm together with Broadway Video, with Lorne Michaels serving as executive producer and James Longman as lead producer.
Coverage of the announcement varied in emphasis: one account concentrated on the production pedigree behind the series and Demetriou's prior working relationships with its writers, while another placed greater weight on the show's broader run so far, noting CMAT as Goldblum's musical guest for the premiere, an exact 12 September start date for the new season, and a broadcaster comment promising 'unpredictable, must-watch Saturday night television.' That second account also touched on the show's mixed reception since launch, recalling how cast member Ania Magliano had to address backlash over a joke comparing Mark Zuckerberg to Hitler, defending the material by calling the tech billionaire 'fair game' and saying she felt 'kind of detached' from the online criticism that followed.
Where outlets differ
Source 2 names CMAT as the musical guest for Jeff Goldblum's premiere episode; Source 1 does not mention a musical act for the opener.
Source 1 emphasises production/behind-the-scenes detail (Lorne Michaels as executive producer, Broadway Video, James Longman as lead producer, Demetriou's prior consultancy role) that Source 2 omits entirely.
The two sources give overlapping but not identical lists of season one hosts and musical guests: Source 1 cites Tina Fey, Hannah Waddingham and Nicola Coughlan as hosts, while Source 2 cites Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, Riz Ahmed and Nicola Coughlan, plus musical acts Wet Leg, Kasabian, Foo Fighters and MEEK — Hannah Waddingham appears only in Source 1.
Only Source 2 provides the exact new-season start date (12 September) and a direct quote from Sky about the season's tone.
Only Source 2 mentions Dimoldenberg's earlier collaboration with Maisie Peters, and only Source 2 discusses the show's reception, including the controversy over Ania Magliano's joke about Mark Zuckerberg.
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