Live” is having a 50th anniversary, and things are happening. Jason Reitman’s backstage dramedy “Saturday Night,” released last year, is

Jason Reitman’s dramedy about the behind-the-scenes shenanigans that went on before the American comedy show’s first broadcast is contrived

Afterlife director Jason Reitman takes on a comedy behemoth in the story of the first episode of Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night stars Gabriel LaBelle as SNL creator Lorne Michaels. It’s October 11,

It ain’t live, but Saturday Night (now streaming on Netflix, in addition to VOD services like Amazon Prime Video) is a live wire, a sort-of real-time tick-tock dramatization of the countdown to the first-ever episode of Saturday Night in 1975 (trivia: it wasn’t officially named Saturday Night Live until a year later).

Try telling the story of American comedy without mentioning Saturday Night Live, and see how far you get. For half a century, the sketch show has been a cultural fixture, with countless cast members ascended to stardom. A pity, then, that the big-screen account of the truth behind it has ended up being Saturday Night .

Jason Reitman’s movie about the first episode of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live”—is coming to Netflix this week. Find out when you can watch it at home.

Telling the story of the fevered 90 minutes leading up to an iconic TV launch, Jason Reitman captures the energy with his own film Saturday Night. He talks to Screen about his meta approach.

Saturday Night recounts the true, although dramatized, story of the October 11, 1975 premiere of the now-renowned live comedy sketch show, Saturday Night Live, created by Lorne Michaels (who is played by Gabriel LaBelle in the movie).

Instead of chronicling the “eras” (hasn’t that already been done?), the Peacock documentary plucks out concepts and lets you see how the sausage is made.

Jason Reitman says 'Ghostbusters' franchise languished for decades because his dad, director Ivan Reitman, was never interested in sequels.

Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and other stars of the US comedy were regular visitors when Jason Reitman was young. Now he’s made Saturday Night about its first episode

Saturday Night Live has announced the acts that will perform live as ... documentary about the history of the show’s musical guests, directed by Questlove. Jason Reitman also directed a feature film titled Saturday Night. The film tells the story ...