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New Year's Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen is an annual program broadcast on CNN. It originates live from Times Square in New York City. It covers the traditional ball drop live, but also reports on other New Year's Eve celebrations across the country and around the world. It is a competing program to similar shows such as New Year's Rockin' Eve, All American New Year and New Year's Eve with Carson Daly in the United States. Overseas, the program is simulcast on CNN International and available around the world. The program has drawn controversy and attention, largely with respect to Kathy Griffin's antics, comments, and double entendres.
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2 this season · 17 totals2023e01 New Year's Eve Live 2023 2024-01-01 01:00
New Year's Eve Live 2023
Anderson and Andy are back for their seventh year as co-hosts of CNN's annual celebration. Sara Sidner and Cari Champion take over the celebration at 12:30 am ET to count down as the Central Time Zone rings in the New Year from Auditorium Shores in Austin, Texas.'There's no one I'd rather spend New Year's Eve with and nowhere I'd rather be at midnight than New York's Times Square!' said Cooper. Andy Cohen, 'Spending New Year with my dear friend Anderson is my idea of a great time and a happy tradition that I look forward to all year long.' Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen ring in 2024, along with CNN correspondents reporting from celebrations across the country. Richard Quest reports from the crowds of Times Square, Stephanie Elam from Atlantis, Paradise Island in the Bahamas, Randi Kaye from Key West, Florida, Gary Tuchman and his daughter Lindsay from Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Boris Sanchez from Miami, Florida. The show features musical performances from Enrique Iglesias, Maroon 5, the Jonas Brothers, Flo Rida, Miranda Lambert, Darius Rucker, Rod Stewart, and Paul Anka. Live interviews also help ring in the New Year with Patti Labelle, Jeremy Renner, Neil Patrick Harris, Bowan Yang & Matt Rogers, Ronald Gladden, Bridget Everett, Henry Winkler, Eva Longoria, John Mayer, and a special appearance from David Blaine.