The amusing and insane Jenny McCarthy has spent six years down in the crowd on New Year’s Rockin’ Eve chatting with people, and even getting total strangers to kiss. The music continues for three hours before a brief break for local news on the East Coast.
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2016 brings higher minimum wages in DC, Md
The pay raises also underline the growing gap between statewide wage floors and the federal hourly minimum, which remains .25. Meanwhile, an expansion of the state Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income families will be effective tomorrow as well.
Unfortunately, when the ball dropped to usher in the year 2012, no one knew that it would be the last time the iconic former host of “American Bandstand” would be there to do the honors.
UCSF Voluntarily Shut Down Its Living Donor Program for Kidney Transplants
Kaiser has never resumed its program and pays for pre-transplant care and surgery for its patients at other hospitals. The donor had provided a kidney to a recipient at University of California San Francisco Medical center in October.
The singer debuts the music video for her single “Out of the Woods” some time during “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” (tonight at 8 on WCVB, Ch. 5).
‘Force Awakens’ rockets ‘Star Wars’ to box office record
With a production budget of more than $US200 million, the Walt Disney Co stands to make a considerable profit. First lady Michelle Obama hosted a screening for children of families that lost members to war.
The very first New Year’s Rockin’ Eve took place as 1972 gave way to 1973. We suppose you could always set your DVR to record all four, allowing you to stretch New Year’s Eve through to 2016. Trump joins the festivies live from Florida from 11:30 p.m.to 12:30 a.m.
Fox: “Pitbull’s New Year’s Revolution” begins at 8 p.m. Hosts Terry Crews and Wendy Williams will be in Miami with performers Pitbull, Puff Daddy, Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello, Prince Royce, Austin Mahone, Earth, Wind & Fire, Jussie Smollett, Yazz and Timbaland. This is a lot like “Hollywood Game Night” – which will start its season Tuesday – except that Andy Cohen hosts, there are some New Year-themed games and Panic at the Disco is the house band. Where’s Carson Daly? He arrives at 11:30 p.m., with “The Voice” colleague Gwen Stefani, who’s slated to sing. Bravo’s Cohen subs for Jane Lynch, the host of NBC’s “Hollywood Game Night” series (which returns January 5).
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WHY IT’S IMPORTANT: New Year’s Eve as a TV holiday, in my experience, tends to be about catching up on TV from the rest of the year that I’ve missed.
