The Chinese version of “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) had already been panned for lacking the political punch of the American comedy show that it had licensed — but that did not stop it from getting canned after just three episodes.

Neither late-night nor live, the Chinese SNL had premiered on June 23 as an exclusive program on streaming platform Youku. When audiences logged onto Youku on Saturday, they found no new show. All previously aired content was offline too.

The platform did not clarify what exactly had resulted in the show’s deletion. The official SNL account on Weibo said that the show will be back after striving to be “more excellent to meet your expectations.” (Image: Weibo)