Saturday Night’s Main Event looks to be coming back to NBC. The cable specials were frequently where big storylines and angles would play out in WWE outside of pay-per-views before the advent of Monday Night Raw.
Sports journalist, Brad Shepard, broke the news yesterday.  “I have learned that an occasional special event, thought to be a reboot of Saturday Night’s Main Event, will be televised once WWE enters its new television deals with Fox and NBCU,” Shepard said. “The special is expected to happen several times throughout the year, with each event being strategically placed before big dates, like the Saturday night before the NFL’s Super Bowl. Airing of the events would be split between NBC and Fox.”
WWE’s new television contracts go into effect in the fall of 2020.
Shepard was also the journalist who broke the story that the XFL would be returning in 2020.
Saturday Night’s Main Event
The first run of Saturday Night’s Main Event lasted from 1985 to 1992. SNME began airing on NBC after the first WrestleMania. The agreement with NBC signified the end of the promotion’s relationship with MTV (aka the Rock N Wrestling Connection).
Once WWE struck a deal to begin airing Raw on Monday nights, SNME specials were canceled.
WWE would bring back the events in 2006, however. 5 events aired on NBC between 2006-2008.
The last episode of Saturday Night’s Main Event was taped on July 28th, 2008 from the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. On that night, Edge defeated Jeff Hardy, the Great Khali defeated Jimmy Wang Yang, and the team of JBL, Kane, & the Legacy defeated John Cena, Batista, and Cryme Tyme.
