TV for winter 2025: 15 shows coming up, including the return of ‘Reacher’ and (finally) ‘Severance’

For all its flaws, “Saturday Night Live” used to consistently launch its cast members onto movie marquees. But changes in the film business have made that an impossibility in recent years. Nobody is becoming a movie star these days, except for a small handful of people. Even so, not enough of the NBC late-night staple has felt original or especially funny these days to warrant that kind of stardom.

Let me contradict myself to also point out that you can’t argue with a half-century milestone.