This project started after I went to the dress rehearsal for the first episode of Saturday Night Live UK.

I went in excited to see the show, but what really stayed with me was the amount of people involved in making it happen. Cast, writers, producers, camera operators, set teams, directors, runners, floor managers, all moving together to make a live show feel effortless.

There were sets being moved, people being directed, cameras being repositioned, sketches being reset and all these tiny moving parts working around each other in real time.

It made me think about how much creative work happens slightly out of view.

So I wanted to make something that celebrated that. Not just the people on screen, but the wider group of people who help bring a show like this to life.

The idea became a fictional Underground-style map, after the idea “Next Stop, Saturday Night” stuck in my head, with each name treated like a stop within a larger network.

In total, the final piece includes over 300 names, covering people connected to the show both in front of and behind the camera.

The Underground reference felt like the right fit because it gave me a way to show scale, movement and connection. A live show has that same feeling — lots of routes crossing over, different teams feeding into each other, and everything needing to arrive at the right place at the right time.

I built the map around a series of lines, symbols, fake notices and small visual details, giving it the feel of something you might find on a carriage wall if SNL UK had its own transport system. There’s plenty of callbacks to some of my favourite moments from Series One of the show.

Alongside the poster, I also created a custom moquette pattern for the seats in the final mockup. The pattern uses late-night inspired colours and follows a geometric language similar to the poster, with hidden SNL UK letters worked into the repeat.

I couldn’t just make an Underground map without creating my own version those famous seat patterns!

The final poster became a visual tribute to the people behind the show.

From a distance, it reads like a familiar Tube map. Up close, it becomes something more detailed: A network of names, references and little jokes that reward people for spending time with it.

The carriage mockup and moquette pattern helped take the idea a bit further, turning it from a standalone poster into a small imagined world around the show.

For me, it was about showing the scale of collaboration behind something that can look effortless on screen. Live TV only works because so many people are quietly doing their bit at exactly the right moment.

I had a blast watching the first series of SNL UK and this was my way of saying thanks.