NBC has a pretty good sense of what most people will be doing when the clock strikes midnight on December 31st, and they’re programming right to it.
On Friday, the network announced The Day Drinking With Seth Meyers New Year’s Special, an hour-long look-back at the best of Meyers’ drunken interactions with Rihanna, Post Malone, Will Forte, Kelly Clarkson, Kristen Stewart, Kevin Hart, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lizzo and Dua Lipa.
The special will air from 11:30 p.m.-12:35 a.m. New Year’s Eve. One imagines the show will somehow mark the stroke of midnight, though it wasn’t immediately clear how (or if in fact) it will.
The special marks a change in direction for NBC. With New Year’s Eve falling on a Sunday night last year, it aired a regular Sunday Night Football game. Prior to that, the network aired the Lorne Michaels-produced live special, Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party in 2021 and 2022.
Following the Meyers special at 12:35 a.m., NBC will air E! News Presents NBC’s Hot 10 of 2024, a one-hour special hosted by E! News’ Justin Sylvester and Keltie Knight. According to a network press release, Jimmy Fallon, Dolly Parton, and Andy Cohen are among those set to appear on the E! special.
The two pre-recorded NBC specials will face steep competition across the dial, with CBS airing the live five-hour country music special, New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash, and ABC airing its traditional Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest. CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen will once again host their own countdown from Times Square.
The very first “Day Drinking” segment aired on Late Night with Seth Meyers in June 2015. It was originally intended as a one-off that saw Meyers and his brother Josh get sloshed on camera. It’s since become one of the show’s most popular segments.
The Late Night host has noted that both viewers and celebrities can’t seem to get enough of the segment. “The only thing stopping it is my liver,” joked Meyers.
I can’t imagine a better way to usher in the New Year than to be DAY DRINKING with Seth Myers!! Don’t get me wrong, watching the day drinking special is worth your total, undivided attention, however, actually DAY DRINKING WITH SETH sounds like a better plan to me!! As a 70 yr old life long fan that can hold her liquor gracefully I am looking forward to an invitation Seth!!
The “Day Drinking” special with Seth Myers is a low class garbage special. It was not entertaining. It was not funny. It was not worth wasting time to watch.