New Yr’s Eve on TV, 50 Years of AFI Life Achievement Awards, Dave Chappelle, Remembering Y2K

SUNDAY: Historically the most-watched New Yr’s Eve celebration, Rockin’ Eve goes world this yr, with Seacrest and co-host Rita Ora holding court docket in Instances Sq., Jeannie Mai emceeing from Hollywood and a Spanish language countdown from Puerto Rico fronted by TV character Dayanara Torres. The festivities, simulcast for the primary time throughout 150 iHeartRadio stations, features a efficiency by Ok-Pop group NewJeans from South Korea. On the New York expertise roster: Megan Thee Stallion, Jelly Roll with Jessie Murph, Sabrina Carpenter and Tyla. Highlights from L.A. embody Ellie Goulding, Inexperienced Day, Janelle Monáe, Ludacris, Nile Rodgers & CHIC and Renée Rapp with Coco Jones, plus a efficiency by Publish Malone from Las Vegas. Earlier within the night, Robin Roberts hosts The Yr: Countdown to 2024 (7 pm/ET), an extension of ABC Information’ The Yr franchise with reflections on 2023 and what to anticipate within the yr forward.

SUNDAY: Elle King hosts (and performs), joined by Leisure Tonight’s Rachel Smith at Nashville’s Bicentennial Mall, the place the Music Observe Drop occurs in Central Time, preserving the social gathering going after the Instances Sq. celebration. A who’s-who of nation and country-rock expertise consists of Lainey Wilson, Thomas Rhett, Outdated Dominion, Kane Brown, Brothers Osborne, Carly Pearce, Blake Shelton, Trombone Brief, Morgan Wallen, Hint Adkins, Lynyrd Skynyrd and extra.

SUNDAY: Tony-winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (and future star of the movie model of Depraved) is joined by fellow Tony winners Ben Platt (Pricey Evan Hansen) and belter Joaquina Kalukango (Paradise Sq.) on the Kennedy Heart stage in a particular New Yr’s Eve version of Subsequent on the Kennedy Heart. Their musical repertoire ranges from Broadway favorites to R&B, Motown, people, soul and blues, with Erivo sharing private reflections and tales about her favourite songs.

SUNDAY: If campy banter quite than music is your factor, Bravo’s Andy Cohen groups with anchor Anderson Cooper but once more to rely it down from NYC. Having recovered from what Cohen describes as final yr’s “bungle,” the duo is able to elevate a glass to 2024.

SATURDAY: This excessive honor, celebrating the life and profession of Hollywood’s best stars and administrators, was established in 1973, with a half-century of memorable moments to select from in an anniversary retrospective hosted by TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz. In acknowledgement of the primary recipient, the legendary John Ford, TCM follows the particular with a screening of Ford’s 1956 basic The Searchers (9:45/8:45c). Among the many many luminaries who’ve obtained the AFI tribute: Orson Welles, Fred Astaire, Elizabeth Taylor, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Bette Davis, and Henry and Jane Fonda. As they used to say about MGM, extra stars than there are in heaven, and for those who have handed, an exquisite technique to keep in mind them.

SUNDAY: Just about all that’s recognized concerning the incendiary comedian’s return to Netflix is that his newest set was filmed on the Lincoln Theatre in Chappelle’s Washington, D.C. hometown, and he’ll be riffing on occasions together with the notorious Oscar slap and his personal onstage assault on the Hollywood Bowl. Historical past suggests he’ll say one thing earlier than it’s over to shock and irritate somebody.

SATURDAY: Thousands and thousands apprehensive the sky was falling—or, extra tangibly, feared a worldwide laptop glitch—on the daybreak of the twenty first century. What was often called the “Y2K panic” is the topic of a stylized documentary informed solely by archival footage and residential video. We hear from laptop consultants, survivalists, militia teams and spiritual alarmists, reflecting a free-floating anxiousness about expertise that hasn’t precisely subsided in our AI-obsessed current.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• The Twilight Zone (Saturday, 8 am/7c, Syfy; Sunday, 8 pm/7c, H&I Community): Should you typically felt such as you had been residing within the Twilight Zone the final yr, possibly a deep dive into Rod Serling’s unequaled sci-fi/fantasy anthology will get you prepared for 2024. Syfy’s marathon goes by Tuesday at 4 am/3c, H&I’s “A Toast to Twilight” airs by Tuesday at 6 am/5c. Dip out and in at will, the allegories by no means disappoint.
• NFL Soccer (Saturday, 8:15/ET, ESPN and ABC): The Detroit Lions face the Dallas Cowboys in a particular Saturday prime-time recreation.
• Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter (Sunday, 8 am/7c, Sundance TV): Modeled after the commerce publication’s famend roundtables, editors collect celebrities for wide-ranging conversations concerning the business and their craft. The opener, “Songwriters,” options Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Cynthia Erivo, Jon Batiste and Julia Michaels. Adopted by “Actress,” with Barbie’s Margot Robbie joined by Emma Stone, Lily Gladstone, Annette Bening, Carey Mulligan and Greta Lee. Insecure’s Yvonne Orji hosts the sequence.
• Sunday Night time Soccer (Sunday, 8:15/ET, NBC): The Inexperienced Bay Packers tackle the Minnesota Vikings within the calendar yr’s ultimate NFL match-up.