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Hannah Waddingham was connected hosting duties for Saturday Night Live UK‘s penultimate section of nan season, helping boost nan show’s ratings.
The Sky drama series, based connected nan iconic NBC original, was watched by a unrecorded assemblage of 197,200 connected Saturday evening, according to charismatic BARB figures supplied by overnights.tv.
The assemblage of astir 200,000 was nan show’s champion capacity successful 5 weeks and nan third-largest viewing fig of nan play to date.
Only nan play premiere, hosted by Tina Fey, and nan Jamie Dornan-fronted 2nd section person performed better, generating ratings of 226,000 and 205,000, respectively.
The unrecorded viewing figures are only portion of nan picture. SNL UK‘s assemblage is much than tripling erstwhile catchup, streaming, and repetition viewing are captured.
| ‘SNL UK’ Episode | Overnight Rating | Seven-Day Rating | Seven-Day Rating Including Repeats |
| 1 | 226,000 | 528,000 | 784,000 |
| 2 | 205,000 | 507,200 | 642,000 |
| 3 | 130,100 | 430,600 | 631,000 |
| 4 | 120,000 | 371,700 | 503,000 |
| 5 | 129,970 | ||
| 6 | 143,730 | ||
| 7 | 197,200 |
The ratings, arsenic good arsenic sketches going viral online, person been enough to person Sky to renew SNL UK for a 2nd play this week.
Commenting connected nan renewal, SNL creator Lorne Michaels said: “I’m incredibly proud of our squad and nan show. It keeps getting amended each week.”
Waddingham, known for her activity successful Ted Lasso, oversaw an section successful which Peter Serafinowicz played Nigel Farage, an state of Donald Trump.
Making a acold unfastened cameo depicting nan Reform UK leader, Serafinowicz featured successful a sketch group successful 2046 erstwhile he is Prime Minister and nan monarch is “King Trump.”
There is 1 section near of SNL UK Season 1, which will beryllium hosted adjacent week by Ncuti Gatwa.
