Saturday Night Live’s premiere leaning heavily on politics showed declining viewership compared to it’s premier a year ago.
The comedic sketch show has made a choice to continually mock President Trump and has taken a decidedly partisan overall stance in its content.
Alec Baldwin, who plays “Trump” on SNL, posts anti-Trump political commentary on social media regularly.
Hollywood Reporter reports like most other shows in premiere week, NBC’s late-night staple came in behind its opener from a year ago.
Saturday Night Live was not immune to the overall ratings declines in the first week of the 2019-20 TV season.
The NBC late-night staple posted smaller preliminary ratings for its 45th season premiere than it did in 2018.The premiere, hosted by Woody Harrelson and featuring Billie Eilish as musical guest, drew a 4.1 household rating in overnight metered markets and a 1.6 among adults 18-49.
That’s down about 15 percent in households and 30 percent in adults 18-49 vs. last season’s opener (4.8 and 2.3).
Saturday’s show is also slightly below the preliminary averages for the show in season 44 (4.4 in households, 1.7 in adults 18-49). SNL averaged a 1.5 rating in adults 18-49 and 6.33 million viewers in same-day ratings last year, rising to a 2.3 and 8.88 million with a week of delayed viewing. (An additional four weeks of multiplatform viewing pushed the 18-49 rating to a 3.5.)
The show did come in slightly ahead of last season’s finale in the 18-49 demographic (1.5), while matching the household rating. More complete ratings for the show will be available Tuesday.
The season premiere leaned heavily on politics, with a cold open sketch featuring Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump calling around for advice on impeachment and an extended sketch of a Democratic presidential forum, with Harrelson playing Joe Biden, Larry David reprising his Bernie Sanders impression and former SNL regular Maya Rudolph as California Sen. Kamala Harris.
This article was written by the staff of TheConservativeOpinion.com
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