Sky has revealed more about its plans to bring Saturday Night Live to the UK.

Phil Edgar-Jones, Sky’s executive director of unscripted originals, said he wanted the remake of NBC’s iconic sketch show to bring “chaos” and “noise” to the screen.

“It’s exciting, a little bit scary as well,” Edgar-Jones told the Edinburgh TV Festival, revealing that Sky talent scouts are in the Scottish city assessing the next generation of comedy stars at the Fringe.

Edgar-Jones, who spent time embedded with SNL creator Lorne Michaels and the team in the U.S., confirmed that James Longman , executive producer of The Late Late Show With James Corden , will become showrunner of the UK version. Deadline first tipped the news in April.

The series will be filmed in a BBC Studioworks facility, wh

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