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The Saturday Night Live Season 47 premiere set a record this year, but not in the way that NBC likely anticipated. The Wrap reports that the episode, which was hosted by Owen Wilson and featured musical guest Kacey Musgraves, was the show’s least-watched season premiere of all time.
This year’s season premiere drew a 0.92 rating in the 18-49 viewer demographic, and 4.9 million total viewers. Nielsen numbers dropped 41% overall from SNL‘s Chris Rock-hosted Season 46 premiere. The previous all-time ratings low for an episode was Keegan-Michael Key’s episode from May 15, 2021.
However, it’s important to note that the Season 47 premiere isn’t the least-watched episode overall in terms of total viewers, just for the initial broadcast; and that over time, more and more viewers watch episodes on digital platforms instead of live. Wilson’s episode ultimately scored the second-highest ratings number in the 18-49 demo for any comedy airing during this year’s Fall TV Premiere Week, only trailing The Simpsons.
The Season 47 premiere also may have lost a small number of viewers due to it being the first-ever SNL episode to be live-streamed on Peacock, which could have minimally impacted the Nielsen ratings.
While cast members Beck Bennett and Lauren Holt exited the long-running comedy series ahead of Season 47, SNL has added three featured actors: Aristotle Athari, James Austin Johnson, and Sarah Sherman.
The current cast includes Aidy Bryant, Michael Che, Pete Davidson, Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Colin Jost, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat, Kyle Mooney, Ego Nwodim, Chris Redd, Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson, Melissa Villaseñor, Bowen Yang, Andrew Dismukes, and Pukie Johnson.
Saturday Night Live airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC. The first four episodes of Season 47 will also stream live on Peacock. Scroll up to watch a clip from the premiere.
