Casting for the U.K. version of “ Saturday Night Live ” is “well underway,” Sky exec Phil Edgar-Jones said on Wednesday.

When asked about the upcoming sketch series on a panel at Content London , Edgar-Jones — executive director of unscripted originals at the broadcaster — teased: “I am actually not allowed to say anything. It’s going to be good!”

However, he soon gave the audience a bit more information, saying: “We’re so excited about it because it is an opportunity for us to really nurture that next generation of comic talent. So we’re casting at the moment, we’re sort of well underway with that. We’re looking at writers.”

Edgar-Jones added that Sky has had “such a great response to it from the comedy community and I’m really, really excited about. It’s going to be a lot of fun

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