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‘Saturday Night Live’: Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor & Aristotle Athari Not Returning For Season 48

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The “year of change” at Saturday Night Live continues.Deadline understands that Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor and Aristotle Athari are not returning for season 48 of the venerable NBC show.Moffat and Villaseñor both joined as featured players in 2016, while Athari joined last season.

Moffat and Villaseñor were both promoted to the main cast in 2018.Villaseñor was the second Latina cast member after Noel Wells and the first to be promoted to repertory status.The departures come after Deadline revealed in May that Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant and Kyle Mooney were exiting in addition to Pete Davidson.It comes after creator Lorne Michaels admitted that he was expecting this year to be a “year of change” for the show.It’s not a huge surprise given that this season – season 47 – featured its largest ever cast with 21 stars and eight cast members that were entering their eighth season and beyond.It also follows the departure of Lindsay Shookus, a producer and head of its talent department, who is leaving after 20 years.

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