NBC Plans SNL50 Red Carpet Special

Saturday Night Live‘s three-hour primetime 50th Anniversary special will be preceded by a live one-hour red carpet special.

SNL50: The Red Carpet will air February 16th, 2025 at 7pm ET/4pm PT on NBC and Peacock.

While details on the planned pre-show are scarce, NBC aired a red carpet special ahead of SNL‘s 40th celebration, and all indications are that this year’s program will follow a similar template.

Hosted by then-Today show co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer, the entirety of the 2015 special was broadcast from a tented red carpet area lining the southwest corner of the Rockefeller Center skating rink leading into 30 Rock.

Much like the red carpet at The Oscars and other awards shows, bleachers were set up for fans to cheer arriving stars as they stopped to chat with different press outlets lining the carpet, including the Today show hosts.

Although the various SNL alums and special guests participating in the 40th anniversary special went to great pains to avoid spoiling any of what was to come, it was SNL creator Lorne Michaels who let slip on the red carpet special that viewers would be seeing all-star editions of “The Californians” and “Celebrity Jeopardy.”

The 2015 special was produced for NBC by Brad Lachman Productions. There’s been no word yet on who’s producing the show this year.

We’ll keep you updated if/when more is revealed.

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