Saturday Night Live UK has unveiled its top creative team.

Two-time Emmy winner James Longman will serve as lead producer on Sky ‘s British installment of NBC’s venerable hit sketch show. His credits include The Late Late Show with James Corden as well as popular U.K. comedy projects Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Alan Car: Chatty Man .

Elsewhere, Liz Clare joins SNL UK as director and Daran Jonno Johnson as head writer. Clare has directed some of the country’s most-watched live broadcasts of recent years including An Audience with Adele , the BRIT Awards, the BAFTA Film Awards and Glastonbury music festival.

Writer-comedian-composer Johnson is one-third of sketch group Sheeps. His writing credits include Wedding Season for Disney+ and Siblings for the BBC.

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