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What's On Tonight: NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly, Dick Clark’s Primetime Rockin’ New Year’s Eve With Ryan Seacrest, New Year’s Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin

TV tips for Saturday, Dec. 31.

NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly, 10 p.m., NBC

They take a break at 11 for the news, and then it’s right back to He Whose Career Is Not Quite Dead But Certainly Getting There and lots of lip-synced performances.

Dick Clark’s Primetime Rockin’ New Year’s Eve With Ryan Seacrest, 10 p.m., ABC

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Good heavens, Dick. Just let go.

New Year’s Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin, 11 p.m., CNN

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The best part about this is what Kathy says in her never-ending effort to get Anderson to choke to death laughing. The worst part is the “New Year’s Eve around the world” they do with various correspondents. It’s awkward.

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