Jennifer Lopez is preparing for a busy Saturday night…
The 54-year-old Puerto Rican superstar will be the musical guest on the February 3 episode of NBC’s late night sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live.
Lopez has appeared on the show numerous times including three appearances as musical guest and three times as host.
Her new album, This Is Me… Now, comes out February 16.
The Bear star Ayo Edebiri will serve as the host for the first time.
Saturday Night Live is produced in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels.
The 29-year-old Puerto Rican Grammy-winning superstar will return to Saturday Night Live on October 21.
But this time, Bad Bunny will serve as host and musical guest.
The “Me Porto Bonito” rapper previously performed in 2021, but this will mark his first time on hosting duties.
Bad Bunny joins a list of Latinx artists to pull double duty on SNL that includes Jennifer Lopez (February 10, 2001, February 27, 2010) and Bruno Mars (October 20, 2012).
But Bad Bunny isn’t the only Latinx artist scheduled to appear on NBC’s long-running late night sketch comedy show this season.
On the October 14 episode, which will be hosted by Pete Davidson, Ice Spice will make her debut appearance on the Lorne Michaels-created show as the musical guest.
Auli’i Cravalho is bringing the mean in early 2024…
Paramount plans to release its new Mean Girls film, starring the 22-year-old part-Puerto Rican actress/singer and Moana lead, will be released theatrically on January 12, 2024, during the four-day Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend.
Paramount had originally planned to release the film via Paramount+.
In addition to Cravalho, the new film stars Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Jaquel Spivey, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Avantika, Mahi Alam, Christopher Briney, Bebe Wood, Ashley Park, Connor Ratliff and Jon Hamm.
Arturo Perez and Samantha Jayne are directing the new film, from a script by Fey.
Broadway Video’s Lorne Michaels has returned to produce alongside Fey.
The original Mean Girls film, directed by Mark Waters and penned by Fey off of Rosalind Wiseman’s novel, grossed more than $130 million worldwide and blasted off the careers of Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried while also repping a box office hit for Lindsay Lohan at the time.
HBO Max has released the official trailer for Season 3 of its critically acclaimed comedy series The Other Two, featuring the 36-year-old Puerto Rican actor’s return in a lovable role.
From Emmy-nominated formerSNLco-head writers Chris Kelly & Sarah Schneider, the series stars Drew Tarver, Heléne Yorke, Molly Shannon and Case Walker.
The 10-episode third season debuts with two episodes on Thursday, May 4 on HBO Max.
In Season 3, after comparing themselves for years to their much-younger pop star brother, ChaseDreams (Case Walker), who is now an adult, and their talk show host mother (Molly Shannon), who’s now more powerful than she could have ever imagined, Brooke and Cary (Heléne Yorke and Drew Tarver) are finally standing on their own two feet – fully “successful” in their own right! And yet, they somehow find themselves comparing themselves to new people once again?
In addition to Tarver, Yorke, Shannon, Walker and Segarra, who portrays Lance Arroyo, The Other Two also stars Ken Marino (Streeter) and Wanda Sykes (Shuli) and Brandon Scott Jones (Curtis).
Returning guest stars include Richard Kind, Kate Berlant, Jimmy Fowlie, Alison Rich, Ali Ahn and Marcia DeBonis.
New guest stars include Simu Liu, Fin Argus, Ann Dowd, Edie Falco, Ben Platt, Dylan O’Brien, Lukas Gage, Kiernan Shipka, Lawrence O’Donnell, Spike Einbinder, Andrea Boehlke and Dana Delaney.
The series is created, written, and executive produced by Kelly and Schneider; executive produced by Lorne Michaels.
Jenna Ortega is preparing for her late night debut…
The 20-year-old Puerto Rican and Mexican American Golden Globe-nominated actress and Wednesday star will serve as a first-time host of NBC’s late-night, sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live.
Ortega, who will next appear in Scream VI, will host the long-running series on March 11 alongside British indie rockers The 1975.
SNL is produced in association with Broadway Video.
The show’s creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels.
Saturday Night Live is produced in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer of the long-running NBC sketch-comedy series is Lorne Michaels.
The 22-year-old part-Puerto Rican actress/singer has joined the ensemble cast of Paramount Pictures’ new Mean Girls film based on the TonyAward-nominated Broadway musical.
Cravalho, who will portray Janis, will be joined by Angourie Rice,Reneé Rapp and Jaquel Spivey.
Lorne Michaels is producing with Tina Fey. Erin David, Caroline Maroney and Micah Frank are overseeing for Broadway Video, and Eric Gurian and Jeff Richmond for Little Stranger. Arturo Perez and Samantha Jayne are directing with Fey writing the adaptation.
The film is based on the stage musical Mean Girls written by Fey, with music by Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin. Paramount Pictures is adapting the new film for Paramount+.
Best known for voicing the titular character in the Disney hit animated film Moana, Cravalho was most recently seen in Netflix’s feature film All Together Nowdirected by Brett Haley and as Ariel in ABC’s acclaimed television production of The Little Mermaid Live. She can currently be seen in Hulu’s Darby of the Dead.
Marcello Hernandez will be working Saturday nights…
The Cuban & Dominican American stand up comedian, writer and actor has joined the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player for Season 48.
Hernandez joins a roster of new cast additions that includes Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker.
Hernandez has opened for the likes of Tim Dillon and Gilbert Gottfried and appeared on Telemundo’s Acceso Total. The Miami comedian was recently named a “New Face of Comedy” at the prestigious Montreal “Just for Laughs” festival. And locals may know Hernandez from his work with Only in Dade. He was the creative director of their lifestyle page.
“This will be transition year,” Lorne Michaels said backstage at the Primetime Emmys, where SNL won the award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series.
“Change years are always difficult but always exciting. There are new people. There are four new people, at least for now.”
The announcement comes after it was revealed in May that Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant and Kyle Mooney were leaving the show at the end of Season 47 along with Pete Davidson. It later emerged that Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor, the first-ever Latina cast member, and Aristotle Athari would not be returning either.
SNL returns on October 1 with three consecutive shows.
Michaels added that the pandemic kept the large cast together longer than perhaps expected.
“The pandemic sort of interfered with the national order of things. I think there was a bonding; people got very close,” he added. “When we did those at-home shows, you got to see everyone’s apartment where and how they lived. There was an intimacy and connection between audience and group. I couldn’t imagine we could work without that whole team so we kept going.”
Saturday Night Live is produced in association with Broadway Video.
There’s more Schmigadoon in Ariana DeBose’s future…
Apple TV+ has ordered a second season of its musical comedy Schmigadoon!, starring the 31-year-old half-Puerto Rican Oscar-winning actress.
Hailing from creators Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio and executive producer Lorne Michaels, the series stars Cecily Strong, Keegan-Michael Key, DeBose, Dove Cameron, Jaime Camil, Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Ann Harada, Jane Krakowski, Martin Short and Aaron Tveit — all of whom are set to return.
Tituss Burgess and Patrick Page will also join the fun in the new season, which will find Josh (Key) and Melissa (Strong) in Schmicago, the world of 60’s and 70’s musicals.
Following its global debut on Apple TV+ last year, Schmigadoon! was honored with an AFI Award, and has received wide acclaim and accolades, including a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Chenoweth.
The series hails from Broadway Video and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Paul, who is the showrunner, wrote all of the original songs for the series. Robert Luketic directs and co-executive produces. Andrew Singer serves as an executive producer, while Micah Frank is a co-executive producer. Strong and Caroline Maroney are producers.
Lopez has appeared on the show numerous times including three appearances as musical guest and three times as host.
