NBC’s New Year’s Eve comeback plans have gone up in smoke.
The network has canceled Snoop Dogg’s New Year’s Eve, the two-hour live special that was set to air December 31 from 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. The Miami-based broadcast would have marked NBC’s first live New Year’s Eve celebration in two years and pitted Snoop against ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.
As Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva first reported late Wednesday, the decision to scrap the special is being attributed to Snoop Dogg’s involvement in the network’s Winter Olympics coverage in February. “Sometimes the calendar gets in the way of the celebration,” the rapper told the trade.
Snoop Dogg’s New Year’s Eve had been announced in May as a pillar of NBC’s renewed push into live programming. It was also seen as a natural extension of the rapper’s growing relationship with the network—he signed a development deal with NBCUniversal earlier this year and is back this season serving as a coach on The Voice.
NBC has not yet revealed what will air in place of the special, but its cancellation would appear to leave the network without a live countdown presence on December 31 for the second straight year. Last year, NBC skipped a live broadcast in favor of a pre-taped Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year’s Eve Special built around previously aired Late Night segments, with a mid-show “donut hole” for local stations to break in with coverage of regional countdown celebrations. (Meyers and crew pretaped a tongue-in-cheek countdown celebration of their own that aired in some markets.)
NBC’s New Year’s coverage has been in transition since the long-running NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly signed off in 2020. Lorne Michaels and Miley Cyrus filled the slot with two spirited live specials in 2021 and 2022, while the network aired a special presentation of Sunday Night Football in 2023.
now he’s available for some cryptobro’s party
Who cares? He’s a total sell out. And moldy oldy.
His collaborations with felon Martha Stewart are cringe (the plonk wine is nasty), his sucking up to GOP parties reprehensible and further pandering are just boring and actually pathetic now.
Being famous for dope smoking is no longer a novelty or worth even a minute of someone’s time.
There comes a time when one note clowns are past their pull by date and need to be put out to pasture.