'Saturday Night Live' Draws Big Ratings
by EG
With Jimmy Fallon as host and Alec Baldwin again opening the show as President Donald Trump, this weekend's episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live could have seemed old hat — but its delivery to audiences was a historic first.
For the first time in its 42 seasons on the air, Saturday Night Live aired live across the U.S.. (Throughout its history, the show has always aired on a time-zone delay on the West Coast.) The trick helped goose ratings as, according to early stats from Nielsen Media, the episode was up to its best showing since February, when Baldwin himself hosted.
The latest installment of SNL averaged 7.9 million viewers rating. In the targeted demographic of adults 18-49, the show averaged a 2.3 rating. In the key demo, the episode outrated every Big Four series of the week, other than Fox's Empire and CBS' The Big Bang Theory.
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This week's episode of SNL got a boost from an appearance by Melissa McCarthy, who reprised her impression of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.