Favorite New Year's Eve special episodes and shows

Happy Holidays everyone! With new year is about to approaching, there are lots of of new missions and visions to achieve in the new year. There have been traditional new year's eve celebrations all around the world, but here we breakdown some of our favorite new year's special episodes!

1. Liv And Maddie: New Year's Eve celebration at Stevens Point

Liv Rooney became a special main performer of the Stevens Point New Year's Eve celebration hosted by Johnny Nimbus. During the event, Liv promoted her new product named Hair By Liv. Liv also interacted with many fans throughout the show, however the show was interrupted when her twin sister Maddie impromptly asked to Liv why she (Liv) kissed her (Maddie's) boyfriend Diggie Smalls in the "Froyo Yolo" music video. Liv said (under her jazz hands/sarcasm) that she kissed Diggie, whom in the "Froyo Yolo" music video wore a robot costume. The celebration continues, and as the clock ticked to 12:00 a.m., Liv performed her new song "You, Me, And The Beat".

2. Austin, Jessie & Ally: All Star New Year at New York City

Austin Moon, Ally Edgar, Trish de la Rosa, and Dez Wade take a trip to New York where Austin is set to perform for the ball drop on New Year's at Times Square. After many setbacks including a phone calling and booking the wrong area, an airplane flight setting down short of the actual destination, and a taxi ride with a lack of money causing them to get kicked out, Team Austin make it to Times Square where they encounter Jessie Prescott and Emma Ross, who had come to the ball drop after Emma convinced Jessie with the mention of Ryan Seacrest*. Team Austin mentions their dilemma to Jessie and Emma, and through helicopter flying skills, Jessie flies them up to the top of the building where Austin was supposed to perform. Austin performs just in time, starting with a great entry, and everything seems to be going fine until the cast of Jessie realize that Zuri is missing. Part 1 officially ends when Zuri is revealed to be in the big, shiny ball and then is brought down by the family members. 

After the big Times Square Performance, Austin, Ally, Trish, and Dez find themselves without money or any place to stay. When Jessie and the Ross kids agree to let them stay, Jessie receives a chance to get Austin to record one of her songs, thus boosting her to the stardom she longs for. When giving all her songs to Austin and Ally, she accidentally gives them Zuri's poem on imaginary friends too, which the friend duo mistake to be her only good song. Austin and Ally tell her that they like Zuri's poem which they think is her song, and through that, Jessie and the rest of the Ross kids head to Miami with Team Austin so that Jessie and Austin can perform together at their local Miami mall. Many times, Jessie tries to either sabotage or change the song multiple times, including a guitar breakage, purposely getting Zuri out of the room and at the end, causing Ally to have to create a tab for Jessie. The performance day finally arrives, and Jessie, due to guilt, admits that she didn't write the song; Zuri wrote the poem. Austin, although surprised by this shock, still asks Jessie to sing with him, and she does. Jessie then asks Austin if she can go on tour but he runs away. The one-hour crossover special and Part 2 officially ends when the Jessie cast minus Bertram get back to New York and see Bertram playing with his toy train set.

*Ryan Seacrest is a host of the annual Dick Clark's New Year's Eve Celebration since 2011.

• Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve

The Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (NYRE), billed since 2008 as Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest, is a New Year's Eve television special broadcast by ABC. The special broadcasts primarily from New York City's Times Square and prominently features coverage of its annual ball drop event hosted by television personality Ryan Seacrest, along with live and pre-recorded musical performances by popular musicians from Times Square and Hollywood. Since 2016–17, the special has regularly included performances and coverage of midnight festivities from other U.S. locations, including New Orleans (Central Time, from 2017–2023) and San Juan (Atlantic Time, since 2021–22). 

Its creator and namesake was the entertainer Dick Clark, who conceived New Year's Rockin' Eve as a youthful competitor to Guy Lombardo's popular and long-running New Year's Eve specials on CBS. The special first aired on December 31, 1972; its first two editions were broadcast by NBC, and hosted by Three Dog Night and George Carlin, respectively, with Clark anchoring coverage from Times Square. In 1974–75, the program moved to its current home of ABC, and Clark assumed the role of host. Since 2000–01, the special has broadcast segments in prime time alongside the main late-night broadcast; initially occupying the 10:00 p.m. ET/PT hour, from 2011–12 onward the special has occupied the entirety of ABC's primetime and late-night schedule on New Year's Eve.

Following the death of Guy Lombardo and the decline of CBS's specials, New Year's Rockin' Eve grew in popularity and became the dominant New Year's special on U.S. television,. New Year's Rockin' Eve has consistently remained the highest-rated New Year's Eve special broadcast by the United States' major television networks; its 2012 edition peaked at 22.6 million home viewers—not including viewers watching from public locations, which were not yet measured by Nielsen at the time. The series has most recently been renewed through at least 2028–29.

Dick Clark hosted New Year's Rockin' Eve annually from 1973 through 1999 and from 2001 through 2004. For 2000, Clark participated in ABC News' day-long ABC 2000 Today telecast, joining overall host Peter Jennings for coverage from Times Square. In December 2004, Clark suffered a stroke, which resulted in Regis Philbin serving as guest host. Due to lingering speech impediments from the stroke, Clark ceded hosting duties to Ryan Seacrest the following year, but he continued to make limited appearances as a co-host until his death in 2012. Hosting solo since the 2012–13 edition, Seacrest will be joined for the 2023–24 edition by Rita Ora as co-host and correspondent from Times Square, and Jeannie Mai as host of the Los Angeles-based concert segments.

Celebrate 2024 New Year's Eve with Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest, with special performances from LL Cool J, Rita Ora, Megan Thee Stallion, Sabrina Carpenter and many more! Sunday, December 31st from 7:00pm LIVE on ABC!

We wish you a very happy and strong New Year 2024!

See also: Favorite Christmas episodes