Will you see in the New Year with Patrick, Jools, or Rick?

AS the clock ticks towards 2024, if you don’t have a party to go to, why not turn up the telly and welcome Patrick Kielty’s Late Late guests into your living room? Or make room for Jools Holland and his amazing musical line-up, or Rick Astley and friends in concert? Start the first day of the first month with a bang with a televised concert from Dublin Castle – or sit out the New Year mayhem with a classic film instead. Whatever your fancy, here’s our TV guide to the best way to usher in New Year’s Day – and sprinkle your celebrations with stardust.

RTÉ 1

The Late Late NYE Show

PATRICK KIELTY sees out the year in which he became Late Late Show host with a special celebratory edition of the revamped talk show. Guests include Midge Ure, The Tumbling Paddies, Niamh Kavanagh, Carl Mullan, Camille O’Sullivan and teenage dirtbags Wheatus. The Co. Down man will hand over to Anna Geary at Dublin Castle before midnight for the countdown and a concert featuring Picture This. 10.15pm-12.20am

Mrs Brown’s Boys – New Year, New Mammy

BEFORE that, Brendan O’Carroll returns for a festive special, as Mrs Brown and gang start the new year with a gruelling health and fitness regime. 9.40pm10.10pm

Dolores@70

SINGER Dolores Keane gets the documentary treatment to mark her 70th birthday. The programme aims to recreate the ‘magic and mystery’ of Dolores and the Keane family’s music, ‘drawing from the deep and rich well of music that lies within the walls of the original family home of Carragh Cottage’ in Sylane, Co Galway.

8.30pm-9.25pm

RTÉ 2

Borat. Subsequent Moviefilm.

SIT out the New Year’s hullabaloo over on RTÉ 2, with Sacha Baron Cohen’s excruciatingly funny comedy sequel. The recently bankrupted former New York mayor and pal of Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani doesn’t cover himself in glory in the spoof documentary.

11.10pm-12.50am

Johnny English Reborn A MORE family-friendly offering is available earlier on, as Rowan Atkinson once again plays the bumbling secret agent, lured out of retirement for one last job – to scupper an assassination attempt on the premier of China. Gillian Anderson also stars.

7pm-8.55pm

Harry Styles Live in Manchester

THE former One Direction man and his band perform tracks from Styles’s debut solo album and cover old classics in front of a studio audience.

4.45pm-5.55pm

VIRGIN MEDIA 1 The Shawshank Redemption

IGNORE the beginning of 2024 with this classic Stephen King adaptation, a frequent presence in greatest-of-all-time movie lists.

Tim Robbins plays Andy Dufresne, sent to Shawshank prison for murder, where he befriends Morgan Freeman’s Ellis ‘Red’ Redding and plots his escape. 9.30pm-12.20am

Coronation Street

THE Rovers returns in time for 2024, finally reopening for a New Year’s celebration. Bethany returns to the street to Daniel’s delight. 8pm-8.30pm.

VIRGIN MEDIA 2 The Jonathan Ross

Christmas Show

ANOTHER chance to catch the festive edition of the popular chat show. The host, below, is joined by actors Ariana DeBose and Willem Dafoe, singers Boy George and Katherine Jenkins, and comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Kevin Bridges.

10.15pm-11.20pm

The Graham Norton New Year’s Eve Show

REVISIT 2022’s New Year’s edition of the long-running talk show, with Olivia Colman, Hugh Laurie, Romesh Ranganathan and Leah Williamson.

9pm-10.15pm

BBC 1 The Graham Norton New Year’s Eve Show

THE Corkonian interviews US actors Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo, who both star in the new black comedy film Poor Things, about a young woman brought back to life by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist. Also on Graham’s sofa are Strictly host Claudia Winkleman and comic Rob Brydon. 10.25pm-11.30pm

Rick Astley Rocks New Year’s Eve

THE 80s crooner ushers in 2024 with special guests live in concert from London’s Roundhouse in Camden. 11.30pm-12am

BBC 2

Jools’ Annual Hootenanny

JOOLS Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra welcome in 2024 with Rod Stewart, the Mary Wallopers, Muireann Bradley, Joss Stone, Olivia Dean, Paul Jones, PP Arnold, Raye, Sugababes, Ruby Turner, and the 1st Battalion Scots Guards. 11.30pm-1.35am