{"id":5587,"date":"2017-04-26T11:46:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/youku-to-produce-a-local-version-of-saturday-night-live-in-china\/"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T16:41:12","slug":"youku-to-produce-a-local-version-of-saturday-night-live-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/youku-to-produce-a-local-version-of-saturday-night-live-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Youku to Produce a Local Version of Saturday Night Live in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBCUniversal has struck up a deal with Youku for a localized version of the long-running sketch comedy <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> in China.<\/p>\n<p>Youku, a unit of Alibaba Digital Media &amp; Entertainment Group, will produce the local treatment and will run the show as its new flagship entertainment program starting this fall\/winter. <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> debuted in the U.S. on NBC in 1975, and over the last few years, ten international versions of the series have been licensed around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Edelstein, the president of NBCUniversal International Studios, commented, \u201cLorne Michaels has created a timeless format that taps into the prevailing cultural zeitgeist and instantaneously responds with whip-smart humor to national affairs and social trends. In the U.S., <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> is a perennial number one late-night show that consistently outperforms prime time and we\u2019ve seen similar debuts in other countries such as France, where <em>SNL<\/em> has instantly become a top-rated show. We\u2019re excited to partner with Youku in China where we are confident <em>SNL<\/em> will be a big hit with audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBCUniversal has struck up a deal with Youku for a localized version of the long-running sketch comedy Saturday Night Live in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":5588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[969,970,971],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-nbcuniversal","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-youku","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Youku to Produce a Local Version of Saturday Night Live in China - TVFORMATS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/youku-to-produce-a-local-version-of-saturday-night-live-in-china\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Youku to Produce a Local Version of Saturday Night Live in China - 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