The first season of Saturday Night Live UK drew to a close with its lowest audience numbers of the series as the programme faced tough prime time competition against this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa guest hosted the finale episode, with 86,420 viewers watching at 10pm; down 28 per cent from its previous low of 120,000 when comedian Jack Whitehall hosted in April. Gatwa’s viewership numbers were less than half of the 197,000 person audience Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham garnered last week. Meanwhile, on the BBC, the Eurovision Song Contest was watched by an average of 5.2m people, with a peak of 5.9m, according to BARBA figures supplied to Deadline by UK ratings system overnights.tv. SNL UK has received mixed audience and critic reviews since its launch in March, with some labelling the programme “promising” and others dismissing the British edition of the show as “cringe”. “I know they had this SNL garbage in America but they exported it over here to the UK and it’s even bigger garbage…as if …