Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen have purpose to rejoice as their annual NCS’s New Year’s Eve Live particular scored its greatest ranking since 2020 and its second greatest numbers general in its close to 20-year historical past.
The particular, which, as per custom, aired dwell from New York City’s Times Square, averaged 4.5 million complete viewers between 12 and 12:30 am, in accordance with live-plus-same-day Nielsen large knowledge plus panel viewing knowledge. This marked the present’s second-best efficiency within the time interval because it started airing in 2007, with solely 2020 scoring greater.
According to NCS, the particular was up 21 per cent in complete viewers and 35 per cent among the many 25-54 demo, in comparison with final 12 months.
The full broadcast, which aired from 8 pm to 12:30 am, averaged 2.8 million viewers and 1.1 million viewers in the important thing demo. This additionally made it the second-best efficiency since Cohen joined as Anderson’s everlasting co-host in 2017.
Compared to final 12 months’s particular, the present was up 47 per cent in complete viewers, up 70 per cent among the many 25-54 demo, and up an enormous 93 per cent among the many 18-34 demo.
As regular, the New Year’s Eve Live particular noticed Anderson and Cohen taking pictures whereas interviewing quite a lot of company. This 12 months’s occasion featured a chaotic interview with The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert, who took a dig at Paramount’s billionaire owners amid his present’s cancellation.
Elsewhere within the broadcast, Cohen slammed outgoing New York Mayor Eric Adams, saying, “Go dance away. We’ll see you at all the parties. You’ve partied your way through four years.” Adams fired again at Cohen on X, calling his feedback “another sloppy drunken rant” and suggesting the Bravo host must go to Alcoholics Anonymous.
The New Year’s Eve Live present additionally featured appearances from B. J. Novak, Jerry O’Connell, Oz Pearlman, and Amy Sedaris, in addition to performances by Robyn from Times Square, Bryan Adams from Madison Square Garden, Shakira from Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, Vince Gill from Austin, plus Aloe Blacc, Brandy and Monica, Florence and the Machine, Patti LaBelle, and Raye.
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