A source told the NY Post that Tina Fey is being looked at to take over as executive producer of “Saturday Night Live” when current executive producer and creator Lorne Michaels departs. So far, Michaels hasn’t formally announced any intention to leave the show he created in 1975. In a 2022 interview with the New York Times, he said: “I have no plans to retire.” A year before that, however, he left the door open to a new phase away from Studio 8H. Michaels told CBS Morning‘s Gayle King, “I think I’m committed to doing the show until its 50th anniversary, which is in three years… I’d like to see that through and I have a feeling that would be a really good time to leave.” The 50th season of “SNL” is coming in the fall of 2024. Fey is considered by many in the industry to be the leading candidate take over. “I would be surprised if it wasn’t her,” a source said.