What to Watch Tonight? Just like that, 2019 is over. Only one thing left to do and that is celebrate the beginning of a new year! On TV, there are lots of New Year’s Eve celebrations tonight but for us, we’ve partied with Dick Clark’s Rockin’ Eve every year of our life (but one) and that won’t be changing this year. We may, however, pop over to BBC America’s Doctor Who marathon for classic episode, “The Day of the Doctor.”
From our PCR Family to yours, Happy New Year!!!
8pm Hour:
1st Choice: Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2020 – Part 1. “‘Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest’ returns this year, marking the 47th anniversary of America’s largest celebration of the year and the most watched annual New Year’s tradition. The special will include 5½ hours of special performances and reports on New Year’s celebrations from around the globe. Ryan Seacrest will serve as host and executive producer of the prime-time festivities and lead the traditional countdown to midnight from Times Square in New York City, as he has for the last 13 years, with live onsite reporting from actress and comedian Jenny McCarthy.” ABC
2nd Choice: Doctor Who. Part of a Marathon going on at BBC America. “Vincent and the Doctor. The Doctor and Amy Pond meet Vincent van Gogh.” BBC America
3rd Choice: Live from Lincoln Center. “Start New Year’s Eve off in style with the New York Philharmonic, celebrating the dazzling orchestral world of Stephen Sondheim. Conducted by Alexander Gemignani and hosted by Bernadette Peters, with special guest vocalist Katrina Lenk (2018 Tony Award™ winner for “The Band’s Visit”), the concert will feature several of Sondheim’s most beloved works, including suites from “Sunday in the Park with George,” “Into the Woods,” and “Sweeney Todd,” performed with all the excitement and bold harmonic sophistication of one of the world’s great orchestras.” PBS
9pm Hour:
1st Choice: Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2020 – Part 1. “Multiplatinum-selling artist Post Malone will headline America’s most-watched New Year’s Eve special with a performance live from New York City’s Times Square just minutes before the ball drops. Making his Times Square debut, Post Malone is joined by additional performers BTS, Sam Hunt and Alanis Morissette, performing for the first time with the cast of the hit Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill.” ABC
2nd Choice: Doctor Who. Part of a Marathon going on at BBC America. “The Day of the Doctor. The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure through space and time. In the present, something terrible awakes in London’s National Gallery, and in 1562 a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England.” BBC America
3rd Choice: Live from Lincoln Center. Continues on PBS.
10pm Hour:
1st Choice: Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2020 – Part 2. “Ryan Seacrest, Lucy Hale, Ciara and Billy Porter present a New Year’s countdown celebration, including performances by Paula Abdul, Kelsea Ballerini, Blanco Brown, Dan and Shay, Green Day, Dua Lipa, and more.” ABC
2nd Choice: Doctor Who. “The Day of the Doctor” continues on BBC America.
3rd Choice: NBC’s New Year’s Eve 2020. “NBC begins 2020 with a spectacular, can’t miss celebration. “NBC’s New Year’s Eve 2020” will feature musical performances from X Ambassadors, Brett Eldredge, Julianne Hough, NE-YO, Leslie Odom Jr., Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani and The Struts. Carson Daly and Julianne Hough will host live from the heart of Times Square along with Stephen “tWitch” Boss, DJ for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” as a correspondent. Keith Urban will join the telecast live from the Jack Daniel’s Music City Midnight: New Year’s Eve in Nashville event with a show-stopping performance of his own. The special will air Tuesday, Dec. 31 from 10-11 p.m., will break for local news and return for the final countdown from 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. ET/PT.” NBC