SATURDAY’S BEST PICKS
4PM (ESPN) CFP Semifinal at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl College football’s version of the Final Four gets going tonight at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., with the Fiesta
Bowl, pitting J.J. McCarthy and No. 2 Michigan against Max Duggan and No. 3 TCU. Then immediately following in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at
Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Stetson Bennett leads No. 1 Georgia against C.J. Stroud and fourth-ranked Ohio State. The winners here advance to the National Championship at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.
7 PM (SYFY) The Twilight Zone
As part of the channel’s annual Countdown to 2023 all-day marathon of “The Twilight Zone,” after debating with a member of his club whether you could go back in time and change major events, Pete Corrigan (Russell Johnson) seems to go back to April
15, 1865 — the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He tries to warn authorities of what will happen, but it falls on deaf ears. The one person who seems interested may have his own reasons to listen.
8PM $ New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash It’s time to ring in the New Year in cowboy boots and a 10-gallon hat. Country music’s hottest superstars return to downtown Nashville, Tenn., to celebrate the festivities across multiple locations. The star-studded special will be packed with highenergy performances from Brooks & Dunn, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town, Zac Brown Band and more.
8 PM * Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2023 Put on your mittens and begin the countdown. Ryan Seacrest hosts from the preeminent destination to ring in the New Year — Times Square — and the nation’s mostwatched New Year’s Eve celebration. Giving viewers a look at New Year’s celebrations from around the globe, it also celebrates the year’s very best in music featuring a night filled with superstar performances. It also kicks off Disney’s 100 Years of Wonder celebration.
8 PM (TCM) MOVIE The Thin Man Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers owe much of their “Hart to Hart” rhythm to William Powell and Myrna Loy, who perfected the concept of married, often bickering sleuths in this classic 1934 comedymystery movie. The stars play Nick and Nora Charles, a high-living couple who investigate an inventor’s supposed involvement in a murder, in between several frequent cocktail breaks. Maureen O’Sullivan plays his daughter, who enlists the couple.
10 PM (DSC) Moonshiners: Master Distiller Inflation is hitting all corners of the marketplace. It’s enough to drive a person to drink. And so Mark, Digger and Tim taste the results as two outlaw shiners and a legal distiller take on record high prices in a competition to see who can make the best run of shine on a $30 budget in the new episode “Bang for the Buck.”
10:30 PM & Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party The New Year will not know what hit it. Multi-platinum selling recording artist Miley Cyrus, and her co-host, global superstar Dolly Parton, bring the party to Miami as they count down to 2023. The starstudded event, executive produced by “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels, will feature an A-list lineup of musical performances and special guests ready to put 2022 behind them and hit the New Year running. Expect the unexpected.
11 PM ^ United in Song 2022: Ringing in the New Year Together Actor/singer/dancer Chita Rivera hosts this new concert special taped at Philadelphia’s Independence
Hall. Featuring trumpeter Delbert Anderson, singer Jencarlos Canela, Judy Collins, violinist Midori, Sandi Patty, singer Lea Salonga, baritone Paulo Szot, the Washington Ballet, the American Pops Orchestra and more, it is a celebration of Americana as the nation counts down another year.