Is NBC beginning to understand and embrace the vehicle it once squashed? It’s considering providing video moments of SNL rehearsals via the web. Brilliant.

Says The Daily Reel:

The very idea that rehearsals could be deemed as funny — or even funnier — than the actual production speaks not only to our changing predilection for raw, first-person media experiences, but also to the studios’ ability to monetize every aspect of a production experience. You can credit both of these trends to the confluence of so-called “reality programming” with the intimate nature of DIY web video, which is eclipsing the distance between viewer and producer, and to the low cost of digital distribution.