New Year’s Eve: guide
Zan Rowe & Charlie Pickering host ABC's night of music & fireworks as we shut the door on 2020.
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More than ever we will be watching New Year’s Eve celebrations from the safety of our couches, as we say good riddance to 2020.
ABC is screening Sydney fireworks, with a concert from both Sydney & Melbourne.
But due to an evolving situation in Sydney, plans to thank front-line workers have been postponed and crowds are limited to 10.
These are the details supplied by ABC (much of which was sent before recent news).
Updated: Events begin at 8:30pm for kids, hosted by Rove McManus, Kiki Masella and Chenelle Carr while from 9:0pm Charlie Pickering and Zan Rowe host in Melbourne with Jeremy Fernandez and Linda Marigliano in Sydney. The midnight fireworks show will last 7 mins.
Other channels will lead with music and movies. I’ve also noted a few highlights for Friday and Saturday.
Thursday
ABC
7:30pm The Yearly with Charlie Pickering rpt
8:30pm (also on ABC ME) New Year’s Eve 2020: Early Night Show
ABC Children’s New Year’s Eve 2020: Early Night Show is a fun-filled half hour of music, comedy and razzle-dazzle as we count down to a ‘best of’ 9pm fireworks
9:10pm New Year’s Eve 2020: We Are One
Hosts Zan Rowe and Charlie Pickering will present a stunning line up of musical talent from two iconic Australian locations – the boardwalk of the Sydney Opera House and from Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
11:45pm New Year’s Eve 2020: Countdown To Midnight
You’ve got the best seat in the house as hosts Charlie Pickering and Zan Rowe in Melbourne and JeremyFernandez and Linda Marigliano in Sydney count down to midnight as Australia parties at home to welcome in 2021.
12am (Fri) New Year’s Eve 2020: Midnight Fireworks
12:12am (Fri) rage: New Year’s Special
Seven
7pm Big Bash League
11pm Movie: New Year’s Eve rpt
Nine
7:30pm Movie: Hairspray rpt
9:5pm Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince Salute rpt
11:40pm Movie: Can’t Stop the Music rpt rpt rpt
10
7:30pm John Foreman’s Aussie Pops Orchestra New Year’s Eve Gala
If you are keeping the soft clothes on and signing off on the year that wasn’t from the comfort of your couch this New Year’s Eve, you can now do so while celebrating the return of live music with host and musician John Foreman and a 53-piece Aussie Pops Orchestra. This contemporary orchestra have performed on New Year’s Eve for over 30 years, but this time, they are reinventing their sell-out show for television so everyone at home can join in on the festivities. Music to one’s ears! Stay cosy and enjoy a night of family entertainment with performances from Gorgi Coghlan, Marcia Hines, Dami Im, Marina Prior, Harts, Glenn Shorrock, David Hobson, Isaiah Firebrace, Harrison Craig, Rhonda Burchmore and the cast of Come From Away. John Foreman’s Aussie Pops Orchestra New Year’s Eve Gala will be packed full of cheer and hopeful optimism for 2021, as the Aussie Pops Orchestra close the chapter on a turbulent year via the spirit of song.
9pm Have You Been Paying Attention to 2020? rpt
10pm Movie: The Great Gatsby rpt
SBS
6:10pm Dinner for One rpt
6:30pm SBS World News
7:30pm A World of Calm
8:30pm Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender rpt
9:30pm Dolly Parton: 50 Years at the Opry rpt
11pm Movie: The Last Waltz rpt
1am (Fri) Kylie Minogue’s Secret Night rpt
2:15am (Fri) Spice Girls Live at Wembley Stadium
Friday
ABC
12:30pm New Year’s Eve 2020
A special encore presentation of New Year’s Eve, as we welcome 2021 – bringing Australians together to celebrate with music, entertainment and fireworks, and look ahead to better things in the New Year.
8pm The Vicar Of Dibley… In Lockdown
Dawn French reprises her role as she Vicar of Dibley, delivering lockdown sermons to her parishioners via video chat. Favourite cast members return with a nod to those no longer with us. (Extended version)
8:35pm Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Sydney 2019 rpt
Saturday
ABC / ABC TV Plus
7:30pm Doctor Who: Revolution Of The Daleks
Doctor Who’s biggest and most feared enemies the Daleks return in Revolution of the Daleks. The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) is locked away in a high-security alien prison. Isolated, alone, with no hope of escape. Far away, on Earth, her best friends, Yaz, Ryan, and Graham have to pick up their lives without her. But it’s not easy. Old habits die hard. Especially when they discover a disturbing plan forming. A plan which involves a Dalek. How can you fight a Dalek, without the Doctor?
Photo: City of Sydney
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14 Responses
I love the fact it was screened on youtube so I can watch it. I will say that i loved the music acts but the choices of songs performed except for Casey Donovan was so slow . I know we have had a hell of a yeah but if I want to tune in to something like this I want to have up beat numbers.
Time to support channel 10….. first run Australian content with John Foreman
I remember the hey days at 9 where Richard Wilkins would enveil the new promo for the year while presenting MTV. It was always an extravagant affair and something to look forward to. I miss those days
Fireworks are pointless on television.
Having the fireworks and not allowing people to see it live is a waste of money. I have seen fireworks live and on tv and on tv it is pretty lame. The Premier should have stopped them going ahead.
I agree that it is much better in person, but that’s not going to happen this year (thanks Covid-19). The fireworks are provided by the City of Sydney, so there isn’t much that the NSW Primer can do about it. Like last year (where bush fires were raging on NYE), the Fireworks have already been paid for, so it’s better to have something than nothing to show for it.
Happy New Year to you David and to all TV Tonight readers! Here’s hoping 2021 is a little better than 2020! 😂
I really miss The Loop. 😢 It was great seeing in the new year with Tweedie and Liv. Saturday mornings aren’t the same as ABC’s rage has had to make way for news.
There’s now ABC News 24 so the Saturday morning ABC1 simulcast is pointless. I find it’s more about self-promoting ABC as the emergency and urgent news source (which it is considered to be) and the eating into Rage time started during COVID. But it’s over the top with News 24 broadcasting the same thing and they should bring back the lost Rage timeslots.
In addition to Rage on ABC for New Year’s, NITV still has Volumz throughout New Year’s morning for music fans, though not always mainstream (depending on the episodes) like The Loop was.
Can’t Stop The Music is now repeated every New Year’s Eve, but so is Dinner for One. I like that SBS has Kylie Minogue and Spice Girls concerts throughout the night. It’s good to have family oriented programming through the night as either people will be visiting family or friends (within restrictions this time) with the TV being the go to option, or people will be awake through the night.
I noticed that Can’t Stop The Music is repeated on New Year’s Eve too.
I genuinely baffles me that none of the comercial networks get the rights to this, its been on the ABC since 2014.
10 don’t have much else on and they could actually do the hybpa year in review episode at the end of December rather than in November.
It’s on the ABC because the other networks found it too much of a hassle to produce, for little return. Have you not seen the harsh comments the day after?
Yeah hosting this seems like a poisoned chalice – something always seems to go wrong and viewers savage the hosts the following day. Not a very enjoyable way to spend your New Years Eve.