Big news is coming soon for Saturday Night Live, executive producer Lorne Michaels revealed Friday.

“It’ll be announced in a week or so,” Michaels told Puck’s Matt Belloni of the “shake-up” he has planned for the 51st season. Michaels was adamant that he wanted to keep the core cast together through the show’s seminal 50th season, so this season he feels “the pressure to reinvent.”

Michaels didn’t want any “disruptions” or “anything that was going to take the focus off” the 50th season, so he decided to keep the cast mostly intact last year. “And we had an election,” he pointed out. This time around, big changes, including the exits of several cast members, new faces—including on “Weekend Update”—are all on the horizon, he said. The determinations will be made within the next couple of w

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