It’ll be a New Year’s Countrified Eve on CBS this Dec. 31, as the network has just announced plans to fill the evening with no less than five hours of live country music performances from Nashville, now being plotted by a new production company put together by “CMA Awards” executive producer Robert Deaton and country artist manager Mary Hilliard Harrington.
Titled “New Year’s Eve: Nashville’s Big Bash,” the show will air from 8-11 p.m. Et, then resume after a half-hour local news break for two more hours, from 11:30-1:30 p.m. — a wholly ambitious night of nearly nonstop programming, into the wee hours, from a network that hadn’t tried to be competitive on that night for years.
“I think we’re at 50 performances now,” in the planning stages, Harrington tells Variety. So in other words, the initial artist lineup being rolled out in...
Titled “New Year’s Eve: Nashville’s Big Bash,” the show will air from 8-11 p.m. Et, then resume after a half-hour local news break for two more hours, from 11:30-1:30 p.m. — a wholly ambitious night of nearly nonstop programming, into the wee hours, from a network that hadn’t tried to be competitive on that night for years.
“I think we’re at 50 performances now,” in the planning stages, Harrington tells Variety. So in other words, the initial artist lineup being rolled out in...
- 9/9/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
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