Saturday Night Live is heading to China. Bloomberg reports that Broadway Video has closed a deal with Sohu.com to launch a Chinese version of SNL. “China’s Communist Party has been looking for new ways to engage with an audience because past forms of preaching are no longer suitable for today,†said Wang Sixin, a professor at the Communication University of China, on the news. “What Sohu needs to be careful about, though, is finding the right balance when doing satire about social and political issues.†China isn’t the first country to get its own version of SNL; Horatio Sanz worked as a consultant on SNL Mexico in 2013, and Spain, Italy, Japan, and South Korea have been airing their own versions as well.
China Is Getting Its Own ‘Saturday Night Live’
