1) “A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music,” 8-10 p.m., CBS. The night is stuffed with music from Gloria Estefan, Jon Secada, Angela Aguilar (shown here), Andrea Bocelli, Luis Fonsi, Michael Buble, Robin Thicke, the cast of Broadway’s “Buena Vista Social Club” and more. Also, there are comments by Carlos Santana, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rita Moreno and others. Read more…
1) Bowl games. Eight bowls are packed into one day. ABC has Penn State and Clemson at noon ET, Brigham Young (shown here, ranked No. 12) and Georgia Tech (No. 22) at 3:30, and Virginia (No. 19) and Missouri at 7:30. There’s more on ESPN (11 a.m. amd 3:15 a.m., 5:45 and 9:15 p.m.) And CW has the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl (really) at 4:30. Read more…
For TV viewers, this will be a New Year’s Eve of fewer and more.
Fewer networks are trying full-scale, music parties. NBC announced one, then dropped it. Fox and the cable networks never got that far. Only ABC and CBS are going ahead.
But ABC’s will be bigger than ever. It will sprawl across four cities (including New York City, shown here) and run for eight hours (minus a newscast), with at least 40 performers and 85 songs.
Once you add some more things — a couple mostly-talk shows and some musical reruns — you have lots of choices. Details include: Read more…
