Yes, the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena is a fun New Year’s tradition for those out there who are sober enough from the night before to watch. It’s beautiful, it’s scenic, and if you live somewhere that has a mountain of snow on the ground, it makes you really jealous of California. For ABC, it’s […]
The sixth and final season of “Downton Abbey” is premiering on PBS Sunday night, and clearly the network and its Masterpiece arm wanted to go through all the stops in order to properly promote it. How else do you explain a float created specifically for this purpose? Having promotional floats at the Rose Parade is […]
There are many traditions that take place during New Year’s Eve, but few of them are consistent so far as music goes. One of the biggest ones, though, is a performance of the classic John Lennon song “Imagine.” Every year it is performed by a different artist, and this time around it is none other […]
In the years that we have been covering various New Year’s Eve festivities here at CarterMatt, one question has always reigned supreme: Who will Jenny McCarthy kiss at midnight? For quite some time on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” McCarthy did her best to hype this up as a mystery, and there were even polls at […]
While the majority of the CNN – New Year’s Eve broadcast is stuffed full of hilarity (Don Lemon trying to throw beads at people in New Orleans, a giant Hershey kiss in Pennsylvania), we still knew that there would be at least one moment that people would be talking about for the next couple of […]
Here is just how famous Taylor Swift has become thanks to her many musical accomplishments: She can actually debut a new music video on primetime network TV. Just think about the wide array of networks that used to play videos that don’t anymore, and how almost all of the traffic of them has migrated to […]
Come the start of New Year’s Day, a tradition will be turning up in the annual Tournament of Roses Parade a.k.a. the Rose Parade. Multiple networks including ABC and NBC, plus many others around the world, are airing the festivities from Pasadena, California. The Parade is a precursor to the annual Rose Bowl, and it […]
There are many notable moments that are taking place on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” this year, but one of the most entertaining parts of it for many of course come via the musical performances … even the pre-taped ones. It has been beyond a doubt a great year for 5 […]
We thought it would take at least a little bit longer for us to write about something controversial during CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast, but Kathy Griffin made short work ensuring that we had something new to talk about sooner rather than later! The first forty-five minutes or so of the network’s broadcast was spent […]
New Year’s Eve television is getting off to a big start courtesy of Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin, and in their opening to the annual CNN special on Thursday night, they did not disappoint when it comes to being random, funny, and certainly controversial. The edgiest material of course came from Kathy herself, who asked […]
