Steve Harvey, Ryan Seacrest Set to Ring in the New Year
by EG
If you want to celebrate New Year's Eve by watching TV, you've got lots of parties to choose from. Read on for details on some of your options for celebration.
Via Deadline.
If you’re planning on ringing in the New Year with some familiar TV faces you’ll have plenty to choose from. New Year’s Eve regulars Ryan Seacrest, Carson Daly, Steve Harvey, Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen will be among those hosting countdown specials that will air live New Year’s Eve, Monday, December 31, across the country.
Seacrest returns to host Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve for the 13th year on ABC. Joining him will be headliner Christina Aguilera along with Post Malone, Florida Georgia Line, Maren Morris, Ella Mai, The Chainsmokers, Lauren Alaina, Bazzi, Kane Brown, Camila Cabello, Ciara, Halsey, Shawn Mendes, Charlie Puth, Dua Lipa, Macklemore, Kelsea Ballerini and Foster the People, as well as live on-site reporting from Jenny McCarthhy. It airs live from Times Square at 8 PM ET on ABC.
NBC’s New Year’s Eve is back after a break last year in which the network aired Sunday Night Football instead of a New Year’s Eve special. Carson Daly hosts with Chrissy Teigen and SNL‘s Leslie Jones, and musical performances by Jennifer Lopez, Bebe Rexha, Urban, Diana Ross, Kelly Clarkson, Andy Grammer, Brett Young, John Legend and Blake Shelton. Keith Urban will host the Jack Daniel’s Music City Midnight: New Year’s Eve from Nashville’s Bicentennial State Park. NBC’s New Year’s Eve will air live from 10-11 PM and from 11:30 PM- 12:30 AM ET/PT.
NBC also will again air year-end special A Toast to 2018! hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, featuring the highs, the lows and the newsmakers of 2018. Pre-taped in advance, the special will air on New Year’s Eve Monday, Dec. 31, from 8 – 10 PM.
Steve Harvey will ring in the new year once again on Fox. Along with co-host Maria Menounos, Harvey will count down to 2019 from Times Square beginning at 8 pm ET on Monday, Dec. 31. Joining the duo for a featured musical performance will be Sting, along with Robin Thicke, Florence + the Machine, Jason Aldean, Juanes and Why Don’t We.
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