The Lede

Live From London … Tina Fey as Mary Poppins? There couldn’t be a more magical image to set up the premiere of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE UK, which will be available Sunday on Crave. Appropriately, the first host is SNL legend Fey, who descends to meet the wide-eyed UK cast in a teaser that can be seen here. The UK version of the show will follow the traditional SNL format, with English band Wet Leg being the first musical guest. In the following two weeks, Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed will take over hosting duties, with Wolf Alice and Kasabian as the musical guests, respectively. Speaking of Fey, her current producing project – the mockumentary sitcom THE FALL AND RISE OF REGGIE DINKINS – airs a new episode Monday on CTV (streams next day on Crave).

Artificial Fame Living up to its name yet again, HBO’s THE COMEBACK, starring Lisa Kudrow (FRIENDS), kicks off its third and final season, Sunday on Crave. Premiering way back in 2005, THE COMEBACK – co-created by Kudrow and Michael Patrick King – became a cult hit, which led to a revival in 2014. Now, Kudrow emerges one last time as Valerie Cherish, a washed-up actress (don’t tell her that, though!) who unwittingly finds herself on the cutting edge of Hollywood controversy by being cast in the first sitcom written by artificial intelligence. As Kudrow explains, “Valerie creates her own reality. Yeah, she’s a little delusional, but that’s one of the sources of comedy.” A review in Collider gushes that Season 3 of THE COMEBACK is “a fantastic curtain call.”