I’m telling you what’s on TV tonight purely for TiVo recording purposes, of course… I know you’ll all be out painting the town red on this fine New Year’s Eve. And who wouldn’t want to TiVo Ryan Seacrest’s version of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2008 (ABC, 11:35/10:35c)? Just typing that was painful. Here are some alternatives:
New Year, No Limits, ESPN, 11/10c
Rock in the New Year by watching two daredevil (read: stupid) stunts: At 12:00am Eastern, Robbie Maddison will try to jump the length of a football field with a motorcycle, and Ryhs Millen will try to do a 360-degree backflip with a truck at 12:00am on the West coast. ERs, please stand by.
New Year’s Eve Live, FOX, 11/11c/11m/11p
Spike Feresten hosts with Cat Deeley in NYC; Jordan Sparks, Blake Lewis and Lifehouse perform.
New Year’s Eve with Anderson Cooper, CNN, 11/10c
Anderson will be eye candy reporting from Times Square, while other correspondents we don’t really care about will be live from Key West, New Orleans, Las Vegas and more.
Tila Tequila’s New Year’s Masquerade 2008, MTV, 11/10c
Tila hosts a wild costume party for MTV with help from Perez Hilton, Mary J. Blige, Kid Rock, Good Charlotte and more. I’m going to bite my tongue on this one.
New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly, NBC, 11:35
Alicia Keys performs on the rooftop of Rockefeller Center (hells yeah!), while Lenny Kravitz goes nuts in Times Square. Carson, who?
MARATHON ALERT: And, for those of you who want to be different and bring in the New Year in real TV style, there’s a Twilight Zone marathon on SCI FI starting at 8am/7c.
Happy New Year’s!