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Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest

Diana Ross rings in the New Year from Times Square on ABC‘s NYE special. Ryan Seacrest hosts with Rita Ora from NYC, while Chance the Rapper leads the show’s inaugural broadcast from Chicago.

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New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash

Music City is the setting for a five-hour musical blowout hosted by comedian Bert Kreischer and country music’s HARDY, with social media star Haley Baylee reporting from NYC’s Ball Drop before Nashville’s own Music Note Drop at Bicentennial Stage.

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Stranger Things

Series Finale

One last time to the Upside Down, as the Duffer Brothers stage a final showdown between the heroes of Hawkins, Indiana, and the malevolent forces controlled by Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower). The finale has a two-hour and five-minute runtime.

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Percy (Walker Scobell) and Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) wash up at C.C.’s Spa & Resort — C.C. being a legendary mythical sorceress (Rosemarie DeWitt), who may hold the key to seeing them safely past the Sirens once the heroes find their fatal flaws.

Palm Royale

Schemes pile upon schemes in a battle for the Dellacorte fortune, but what most TV fans will relish is a mini-reunion of The Carol Burnett Show regulars when Vicki Lawrence guest-stars and hams it up as Lotte, a former nun who now works at the Swiss chalet where everyone is staying.