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The granddaddy of New Year's Eve TV, "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve," kicks off at 10 p.m. ET on ABC. Host Ryan Seacrest and Clark will do an hour in primetime from Times Square, then return at 11:30 to watch the ball drop and usher in the new year. Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas will check in from Las Vegas. Scheduled performers include Jennifer Lopez, Daughtry, the Peas, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez.
NBC has "New Year's Eve with Carson Daly" at 10 and 11:30 p.m. Jay-Z, Rihanna and Green Day are scheduled to perform.
On FOX, Carmen Electra hosts "New Year's Eve Live" from Las Vegas at 11 p.m. with performances from "American Idol's" Kris Allen and Allison Iraheta as well as Sean Kingston. Eva Longoria Parker and Kim Kardashian are also scheduled to appear.
CNN is re-teaming Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin for its own "New Year's Eve Live," despite Griffin's on-air gaffe last year.
Univision will air "Feliz 2010" with host Don Francisco from 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.
ESPN has a different kind of New Year's Eve special. On "New Year, No Limits," X Games fixture Travis Pastrana will attempt a world-record rally car jump in Long Beach, Calif. The show airs at 11 p.m. ET/8 PT.
MTV will count down the "Top 9 of '09" with Adrienne Bailon and the cast of "Jersey Shore" at 11 p.m.
BET's "106 & Park" morphs into "106 & Party" from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.
On New Year's morning, the tradition that is the Tournament of Roses Parade will air on ABC, NBC, HGTV, TLC, the Travel Channel and the Hallmark Channel. Check your local listings for times.
Football
Bowl games will be all over TV on New Year's Day. The lineup: Outback Bowl (Auburn-Northwestern), 11 a.m., ESPN; Capital One Bowl (Penn State-LSU), 1 p.m., ABC; Gator Bowl (West Virginia-Florida State), 1 p.m., CBS; Rose Bowl (Ohio State-Oregon), 5 p.m., ABC; Sugar Bowl (Cincinnati-Florida) 8:30 p.m., FOX.
Marathons
"Burn Notice" is running all day and night Thursday on USA, followed by 20 hours of "Law & Order: SVU" starting at 10 a.m. Friday.
Lifetime is showing several of its original movies all day Thursday and
will ring in 2010 with a marathon of Jennifer Aniston movies starting
at 11 a.m. Friday. The lineup includes "The Good Girl," "Friends with
Money," "Derailed" and "The Break-Up."You can watch "Las Vegas" on TNT until 7 p.m. ET Thursday, and then again for three more hours after an NBA doubleheader. A passel of action/horror movies, including "Anaconda," "Underworld" and "Resident Evil: Apocalypse," kicks off at 9 a.m. Friday.
Get your fill of blows to the head with AMC's "Three Stooges" marathon, which began Thursday morning and runs till 6 a.m. Friday.
A&E will deliver 20 episodes of "Criminal Minds" in a row starting at 8 a.m. Friday for those needing a serial-killer fix.
TLC is dropping unsubtle hints about the go-to new year's resolution with shows like "I Eat 33,000 Calories a Day," "World's Heaviest Man," "Half-Ton Dad" and "650-Pound Virgin: The Weight Is Over" starting at 3 p.m. Friday.
Bravo is also going the resolution route with "The Biggest Loser" from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday.
The Disney Channel is running a "New Year's Eve Star Showdown" from 6 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday, featuring viewers' favorite episodes and music videos and Disney stars competing in game-show challenges.
Syfy is running one of its typically massive holiday "Twilight Zone" marathons through 6 a.m. Saturday.
Discovery takes you into the "Ghost Lab" all day and night Thursday and starts the new year with 18 hours of "Mythbusters" at 9 a.m. Friday.
Turner Classic Movies will help you toast the new year with all six "Thin Man" movies -- in which William Powell and Myrna Loy are rarely without a drink in hand -- beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 PT Thursday.
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Fergie you are ugly, your face looks like it was it with a mac truck, and you cannot act or sing if your life depended on it.you are way overrated, nobody wants to see you on t.v. with **** Clark on New Years Eve.
At 80 **** Clark still looks good. In my opinion his voice has become harder to understand in recent years due to his stroke. He should use a Text-To-Speach or Speakonia program so we can understand what he is saying. Whenever he talks his voice is slurred. Please use Text-To-Speach or Speakonia to talk for you, and it doesn't have to sound like a Steven Hawkings computer program.
I watched the show tonight and I think Disney really has a lot of work to do on the animatronic D1ck Clark. C'mon, I first saw the animatronic President Lincoln in 1969 at Disneyland, and it was way more life-like. What's happened to Disney's quality control?
Seriously? Not even a mention of the 3rd Winter Classic at 1pm EST - Flyers & Bruins this year at Fenway. What the heck does hockey have to do to get some notice?
Oh, most Americans would rather watch cars turn left. Geniuses.
Good note Katy. They should have mentioned the hockey game. But not all of us are into car races.
As for OPRAH, stfu.
I hope Kathy Griffin is disinvited by CNN for next year.
Shaun stfu to you,homey
It will be great to watch Outback Bowl, i have bought tickets from
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she is really beautiful on the TV.i love her much.especially she wearing her bandage dress.