Mumford & Sons return as musical guest and Connor Storie, one of the breakout stars of Heated Rivalry, makes his debut as host on the next episode of Saturday Night Live.
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SNL announced its Feb. 28 lineup Saturday night (Jan. 31). It’ll be the first new episode to air on NBC and Peacock following a three-weekend break.
The ep will arrive a week after Mumford & Sons drop their sixth studio album, Prizefighter, slated for a Feb. 20 release via Island Records. The performance will mark their fourth visit to SNL as a band — having previously served as musical guest during episodes in 2012, 2015 and 2018.
Marcus Mumford also stopped by Studio 8H for a cameo in wife Carey Mulligan’s monologue in 2021.
Storie leads Heated Rivalry with co-star Hudson Williams as rival hockey players Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander, who find themselves involved in a secret romance.
A pair of songs from the series’ soundtrack (“It’s You” and “Rivalry,” performed, written and produced by Peter Peter) recently debuted on Billboard’s all-genre Digital Song Sales and Dance Digital Song Sales charts.
SNL recently swapped hockey for quidditch in a late-night sketch spoofing Heated Rivalry, with Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard starring as Harry Potter opposite SNL cast member Ben Marshall’s Ron Weasley. The bit, titled “Heated Wizardry,” featured the Gryffindor teammates entangled in a relationship that had Kenan Thompson’s Mad-Eye Moody peeping.
This weekend’s episode (Jan. 31) had Cardi B performing Am I the Drama? tracks “Bodega Baddie” and “ErrTime” and Alexander Skarsgård hosting. Cardi also let her comedic side out in the night’s “Immigrant Dad Talk Show” sketch with Marcello Hernández.
