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Miley and Dolly’s TV plans for the winter holidays

- BY KATE FELDMAN

Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton will help TV viewers celebrate the holidays next season.

Cyrus (photo, below, l., with Parton) will once again host NBC’s New Year’s Eve broadcast this year, an encore from last year when she rang in 2022 with Pete Davidson, the network announced Monday during a presentati­on to advertiser­s.

There’s no word on whether the “Saturday Night Live” star will help out again in December.

Newly inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer Parton will grace us with her presence in the holiday movie “Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas,” a “modern-day movie musical about the making of a network TV special.”

“‘Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas’ is the frenetic backstage story and delightful on-camera results of Dolly’s desire to uplift an exhausted world’s spirits by sharing the unique ‘mountain magic’ she has always found in and around Dollywood at Christmas,” NBC wrote of the special. “Throughout the movie’s production numbers and rehearsal chaos, Dolly finds herself taking a private journey into her past, guided by the mysterious appearance­s of her personal Three Wise Men.

“When it’s time for her big special to air live, a renewed and inspired Dolly goes rogue and shows the world that the real magic of Christmas lies in the hearts of the children we all once were, the realizatio­n that Christmas is about the people we share it with, and how her faith remains the common thread between Christmase­s past, present and future.”

Parton’s 2020 holiday musical for Netflix, “Christmas on the Square,” won two Emmys, including for outstandin­g TV movie.

The country singer recently appeared in the final season of “Grace and Frankie,” reuniting with her “9 to 5” co-stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. She also played Aunt Dolly in several episodes of “Hannah Montana,” which starred Cyrus as a teenager living a double life as a pop star.

NBC also announced that Camila Cabello and Gwen Stefani will join John Legend and Blake Shelton as coaches for the upcoming 22nd season of “The Voice.”

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