Netflix is continuing to expand its talk show offer. It was now announced that former SNL’s Weekend Update anchor Norm Macdonald is getting his own show on the streaming service titled Norm Macdonald Has a Show. Macdonald confirmed this via a post on his social media.
I have a new show on @netflix and I'm tweeting the text exchange that started it all. pic.twitter.com/xNA48bZlVl
— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) March 9, 2018
According to this video, Adam Eget, who served as a co-host on Norm Macdonald Live podcast, will join in the similar role in this talk show as well. It is expected that Norm Macdonald Has a Show features one celebrity guest per episode. Netflix has ordered ten episodes, while Lori Jo Hoekstra will serve as a co-showrunner and executive producer alongside Macdonald. There is no news about when the show should debut.
This isn’t a surprise move for Netflix since Norm Macdonald revealed earlier this year that he is negotiating with Netflix about a possible project.
“I did my podcast in order to see if I could host a talk show and I think I succeeded and have now been offered a talk show by Netflix.” he wrote in a Reddit AMA
After performing as a standup comedian in his native Canada and serving as a writer for sitcom Roseanne, Norm Macdonald joined the cast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live in 1993 as an actor and writer. After Kevin Nealon left the show, Macdonald took the job of anchoring the Weekend Update segment, a post he held until 1998. After leaving SNL, Macdonald created and starred in ABC’s The Norm Show, while also starring in movies like Man on the Moon and Screwed.
