Jonas Brothers on hosting a New Year's Eve concert, plus 5 other ways to ring in 2026

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A Jonas household New Year’s Eve successful Wyckoff, N.J., was ever boisterous. Not lone did the location that Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas turn up successful person an “open-door policy,” meaning that friends and relatives piled successful connected the holiday, but the siblings and longtime set members would besides bang pots and pans extracurricular arsenic the timepiece struck midnight.

Now, the Jonas Brothers are going to marque sound successful Miami to ringing successful the caller twelvemonth with a televised performance and amusement that volition beryllium livestreamed connected Samsung TV Plus. It marks the band’s archetypal solo New Year’s Eve task aft years arsenic a staple connected ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” program.

Comedian Jack McBrayer, who is simply a person of the brothers, is hosting the two-hour show, which volition diagnostic a acceptable mixed with aboriginal hits and much caller favorites from the band, arsenic good arsenic games, contests and interviews.

“We privation to benignant of flip what the accepted New Year’s Eve amusement looks similar connected its head,” said Joe successful a telephone telephone with his brothers successful mid-December. “We’re truly trying to marque it consciousness similar it’s not a New Year’s Eve due program. It’s thing caller and breathtaking for radical to watch.”

The brothers had a momentous twelvemonth of performances, caller euphony and adjacent a Christmas movie, and 2025 besides marked their 20th day arsenic a band. The Jonas Brothers released their seventh workplace album, “Greetings From Your Hometown,” this summertime and kicked disconnected a nationwide circuit that goes done December. The New Year’s Eve solemnisation feels similar a fitting enactment to adjacent the twelvemonth retired on, they said.

Careful not to springiness excessively galore details distant astir the originative imaginativeness for the special, Nick said helium was hoping that it would not lone present connected amusement value, but besides enactment arsenic a meaningful infinitesimal heading into the caller year.

“The thought is to fundamentally accidental what you’re looking guardant to and what you’re appreciative for successful the past year, but besides what you don’t privation to instrumentality into the adjacent twelvemonth and what you privation to shed from this past year,” Nick said. “I deliberation we each consciousness that mode astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth — benignant of reflective, but besides optimistic.”

Each member has immoderate goals for 2026 — Nick would similar to proceed curbing his fare soda habit, Joe wants to amended his at-home coffee-making skills and Kevin’s hoping to get his daughters retired connected the skis slopes — but their biggest anticipation for the caller twelvemonth is to proceed moving unneurotic and bringing their dedicated fans unsocial performances.

“We ever say, ‘Oh no, we’re not gonna bash thing connected New Year’s,’ and past each azygous clip we ... extremity up doing thing due to the fact that we privation to each beryllium unneurotic and bent retired and observe the twelvemonth and past to bash our favourite thing, which is perform,” Kevin said. “It’s a large mode for america to harvester friends, household and our passion, truthful if we tin proceed to bash this twelvemonth aft year, I deliberation we’d win.”

One happening the brothers were inactive trying to fig retired successful the weeks starring up to the amusement was an breathtaking equivalent to the infamous shot driblet successful New York’s Times Square. At the proposition of bringing retired pots and pans, the brothers chuckled. “I conjecture truthful — it’s a small noisy,” Joe said. “We’re unfastened to ideas.”

The Jonas Brothers’ amusement begins astatine 7 p.m. PST and fans tin tune successful to Samsung TV Plus for escaped connected a Samsung TV and different compatible devices. In summation to their special, present are 5 much New Year’s Eve programming choices to invited 2026.

‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest’ (ABC, Hulu)

A antheral successful a bluish tuxedo holding a microphone adjacent his mouth

The archetypal variation of this programme rang successful 1973 with big Dick Clark successful Times Square, and it’s been moving steadily arsenic a staple of the vacation since. Ryan Seacrest, who volition again big the programme from Times Square, archetypal joined Dick Clark arsenic a co-host successful 2006 and has anchored the evening for astir 20 years. Rita Ora volition articulation Seacrest arsenic a co-host successful New York, and Chance the Rapper volition big the first-ever Central Time Zone countdown from Chicago, portion erstwhile NFL prima Rob Gronkowski and Julianne Hough volition anchor the amusement from Las Vegas.

Beginning astatine 5 p.m. PST, the programme volition aerial unrecorded starting successful New York and proceed with countdowns successful Chicago, Las Vegas and elsewhere. Diana Ross is headlining the show, with an expansive slate of performances passim the night, including Mariah Carey, Post Malone, Chappell Roan, Demi Lovato, 50 Cent, Pitbull and the singers down the set Huntr/x of “KPop Demon Hunters” fame. The amusement volition tally for 8 hours, wrapping up astatine 1 a.m. PST, marking the longest telecast successful the decades of the program’s history.

‘New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash’ (CBS, Paramount+)

For those looking for a spot of a state twang successful their New Year’s Eve programming, CBS is hosting the eventual state euphony enactment to observe the holiday. Jason Aldean, Lainey Wilson and Bailey Zimmerman volition header the five-hour special, and different performers see Rascal Flatts, Megan Moroney, Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley and Brooks & Dunn. Special guests CeCe Winans and the Fisk Jubilee Singers, from Nashville’s Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, volition besides articulation the festivities.

Comedian Bert Kreischer and instrumentalist HARDY volition big the evening opening astatine 5 p.m. PST. The peculiar volition see a accepted countdown astatine midnight, culminating with the renowned Nashville Music Note Drop.

‘New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen’ (CNN)

Two men successful acheronian coats successful Times Square, with galore lighted billboards down them

For their ninth consecutive twelvemonth arsenic hosts, friends and tv staples, Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen volition helm CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage. The duo volition clasp down the fort from Times Square opening astatine 5 p.m. PST, portion anchors and correspondents from much than a twelve cities volition besides beryllium reporting unrecorded connected celebrations worldwide. The evening volition diagnostic philharmonic performances, appearances from comedians, and the trademark banter betwixt the (typically) inebriated titular hosts. (After CNN deed intermission connected the intoxicant depletion for 2023’s special, nationalist outcry from viewers and adjacent Cohen himself led to the reinstating of the hosts’ drinking, including their signature changeable astatine the apical of the hour.)

Many guests volition besides look during the telecast, including comedians Stephen Colbert, B.J. Novak, Leanne Morgan and Sarah Sherman. Musical guests see Robyn, Shakira, Florence and the Machine, Raye, Brandi Carlile and Patti LaBelle. Mentalist Oz Pearlman, histrion and comedian Amy Sedaris, rapper Flavor Flav and world TV property Ariana Madix are among the galore further guests.

‘Coast-to-Coast Countdown 2026’ (Nexstar-owned and spouse TV stations, online livestream)

More than 100 of Nexstar Media Group’s section tv stations volition aerial “Coast-to-Coast Countdown 2026,” a unrecorded peculiar featuring music, peculiar guests, fireworks and a drone show. The programme volition beryllium staged from New York, Dallas, Phoenix and Las Vegas. Musical guests see Styx, Foreigner, UB40, the Marshall Tucker Band and Cheap Trick. The peculiar volition aerial from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. PST.

The broadcast volition aerial connected linear tv stations successful each 116 Nexstar-owned oregon spouse markets, arsenic good arsenic successful Miami and Boston, and it volition watercourse connected astir of the section stations’ connected TV apps (including the KTLA+ app). The livestream of the peculiar volition besides beryllium disposable done section presumption websites (such arsenic KTLA.com) oregon done section quality mobile apps.

‘Wicked: One Wonderful Night’ encore (NBC)

Four women lasting connected signifier singing into microphones successful beforehand of a antheral playing connected a piano

In lieu of unrecorded programming this year, NBC volition aerial its two-hour peculiar celebrating each things “Wicked” that premiered successful November. “Wicked: One Wonderful Night” featured unrecorded performances, pre-taped segments, interviews and Ozian amusive with overmuch of the formed of the movie adaptation of “Wicked” and its 2025 sequel, “Wicked: For Good.” Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Bowen Yang, Ethan Slater and Marissa Bode each performed unrecorded erstwhile the peculiar was taped earlier this twelvemonth successful Los Angeles, and Jonathan Bailey participated successful pre-taped segments.

NBC was primitively readying to aerial a unrecorded New Year’s Eve peculiar with Snoop Dogg, but successful November, the philharmonic creator announced helium and the web were not moving guardant with the show. In a statement, helium said they were choosing to absorption connected the Olympics alternatively and promised everyone would “party unneurotic bigger and amended aboriginal successful 2026.”

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