What to watch on TV on New Year’s Eve
Last Leg of the Year
Channel 4, 9.00pm
Jools Holland
What's on TV: New Year’s Eve
Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny
BBC Two, 11.30pm
Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny is now closing its 30th year. For those who want to welcome in the new year with old favourites like Rod Stewart or the Sugababes, whilst celebrating those who are new on the scene, such as Escapism singer RAYE; Jools Holland has quite the night in store.
What's on TV: New Year's Eve
The Last Leg of the Year
Channel 4, 9pm
Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker ring in the new year with a Last Leg special looking at the good, the bad and the ugly of 2022.
Music, magic and mayhem: Mark Cooper on 26 years of Later... with Jools Holland
The only time he nearly missed one was when he was holidaying with his family in Portugal. But, much to his wife’s annoyance, he flew back to be in the studio before returning to the beach once his work was done.
“I’m a sad bastard,” he reflects. “There’s a point you get to when you’ve done so many that the idea of missing one would be heartbreaking and numerically sad.”
TV Picks: New Year's Eve
The Big New Year’s In
BBC One, 9pm
Banter merchant Paddy McGuinness gets everyone’s big New Year’s in underway with a one-hour, star-studded live show of fun, music, games and surprises.
Also on the cards is a hilarious quiz of 2020, inviting us to play along and test our memories of the long, dramatic year gone by.
TV Picks: New Year’s Eve
Jools’ Annual Hootenanny
BBC 2, 11:15pm
Jools Holland’s quintessential musical celebration returns this New Year with his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.
Top TV picks: New Year's Eve
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
BBC Two, 9.00pm
Christmas isn’t the same without The Snowman film, based on Raymond Briggs’ 1978 book. Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen is a sweet documentary about Briggs’ life and career and explores the inspirations behind his most well-known works.
As well as hearing from the 84-year-old author himself, the documentary features contributions from actor Andy Serkis (Fungus the Bogeyman), Aardman Animation’s Nick Park and cartoonist Posy Simmonds.