Let Billy Porter soundtrack your New Year’s Rockin’ Eve
Billy Porter Photo: Steven Ferdman / Stringer
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, December 31. All times are Eastern.
Top pick
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2020 (ABC, 8 p.m. onwards): If any day is a day to channel-surf, it is New Year’s Eve. Most of the networks evict their typical programming in favor of hours-long specials in which famous people of varying levels of skills and charisma wear coats and shout into microphones endlessly, occasionally tossing things over to a live musical performance—some of them pretty disastrous—or an awkward check-in with local news. But this year, at least one of those specials has a big advantage over the others, and that advantage’s name is The Legendary Billy Porter.