Saturday Night Live Alumni Beck Bennett, Anna Drezen, and Paul Briganti Develop FX Ski-Resort Comedy
Three Saturday Night Live alumni—eight-season cast member Beck Bennett, former SNL head writer Anna Drezen, and former SNL film-unit director Paul Briganti—are developing a half-hour single-camera comedy series at FX with Lionsgate and Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's Point Grey Pictures, Laughing Place's Dirk Libbey and LateNighter reported on November 11, 2026, citing Deadline.
The proposed series stars Bennett as a disgraced former Olympic skier who returns to Aspen to try to save his family's struggling ski resort despite having no practical skills outside skiing. If greenlit to series by FX, Drezen will serve as showrunner and lead writer, while Briganti—who directed numerous SNL pre-taped shorts as well as the 2023 feature film Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain—is attached to direct.
The project reunites three collaborators from SNL's late-2010s and early-2020s ensemble era as FX continues expanding its half-hour comedy slate alongside the newly renewed third season of Adults.
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