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It looks like NBC is going to expand Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" segment with more half-hour specials, most likely on Thursday nights. Judging by the success of SNL and its Thursday night election specials during the campaign season, this move isn't too surprising. Plus, this is a progressive step in reaching the network's ultimate goal, which seems to be filling the airwaves with as many former SNL employees as possible. Actually, the next season of Celebrity Apprentice is probably just going to be all the early-90s players that aren't doing movies right now. And Rob Schneider. That guy isn't doing anything.

According to the report, Seth Meyers will be anchoring the show with possible occasional contributions by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey to kind of, sort of promote Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock, respectively. Heck, they might as well throw Jimmy Fallon in there anyway since he's doing Late Night.

I quite like Meyers but he's still not a particularly strong, definable character during his "Weekend Update" segments. I'm curious to see if people are willing to tune in to see him and only him, especially now that there's no extra-specific super-hot topic (like the election) to consistently bring in viewers.

Maybe the big draw-in will be to see how Seth Meyers's mental health holds up. Working as SNL's head writer must be exhausting enough; throwing on another half hour of independent material is going to be, you know, not so fun on his stress level.

Will Meyers's head explode on live television, like a macabre Gallagher show gone terribly right? Place your bets now!