Day: December 29, 2021

Best bets for Dec.31: Eve rocks; so do bowls

1) “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” 8-11 p.m.and 11:30 p.m. to 2:13 a.m., ABC. The Times Square viewing area will be smaller – 15,000 people, masked and fully vaccinated – but the music continues. Live at the Square, Ryan Seacrest (shown here) will have LL Cool J, Journey, Chloe and Karol G. There’s Billy Porter in New Orleans, Daddy Yankee in Puerto Rico and a taped Los Angeles party with Ciara, Macklemore, Avril Lavine, Walker Hayes, OneRepublic, French Montana, Big Boi and more. Read more…

At last, she’s a doctor (sort of)

Sophia Bush’s parents can relax now. Their daughter is finally a doctor, as they’d hoped.
Well, at least she’s convincing as a fake doctor. She stars in “Good Sam” – debuting at 10 p.m. Wednesday (Jan. 5) on CBS – and rattles off the proper tongue-twisters.
There she is, saying “pericardiocentesis” and “superficial venous thrombosis” and such. “I love it … I’m actually living a dream,” Bush (shown here) said, in a virtual conference with the Television Critics Association.
Or her parents’ dream. As “the daughter of an immigrant, … your options are really: You’re a doctor or a lawyer, a lawyer or a doctor,” she said. Read more…