“Saturday Night Live” surges to its highest ratings in six yearsFebruary 13, 2017 - 10:53 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "Saturday Night Live" just surged to its highest ratings in six years. The February 11 episode, which featured Alec Baldwin, Melissa McCarthy and Kate McKinnon mocking Donald Trump and his cabinet, delivered an overall rating of 7.2 to mark the highest-rated episode since a Jim Carrey-hosted episode that aired back in 2011, AceShowbiz reports. The ratings also mark strongest "Saturday Night Live" season in 22 years. The viewership number of the show has jumped in total viewers to an average of 10.6 million and in the 19-49 demographic to an average of 3.5 million compared to the previous season. In other news, NBC has just announced that Octavia Spencer ("Hidden Figures", "The Free World", "The Divergent Series: Allegiant", "Zootopia") is set to make her hosting debut on "Saturday Night Live" on March 4. However, no musical guest has been announced yet. Spencer will be the fifth host for the sketch comedy series this year, following "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" actress Felicity Jones, "Parks and Recreation" actor Aziz Ansari, "Personal Shopper" star Kristen Stewart and Baldwin. "So this is happening. Hope to see you there. #snl #3/4," wrote Spencer on Instagram along with a screenshot of the announcement, and added on Twitter, "I... CAN'T... WAIT." "Saturday Night Live" airs Saturdays at 11:30 P.M. ET on NBC. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |