Broadway Video<\/a> and Universal Television Alternative Studio\u2019s U.K. production team. SNL UK is commissioned by Philip Edgar-Jones, executive director of unscripted originals at Sky.<\/p>\n\n\tIt\u2019s been a long time coming for an official SNL adaptation for the U.K., despite the show boasting local offshoots in countries like Germany, France, Spain, Brazil, Japan, South Korea Russia, Finland and Poland \u2014 although it must be said, all the local versions were short-lived and went off the air some years ago. <\/p>\n
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