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Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest

Series· 1972

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest is an annual television special that airs every New Year's Eve on ABC. The special broadcasts from New York City's Times Square, and prominently features coverage of its annual ball drop event, along with live and pre-recorded musical performances by popular musicians from Times Square and Hollywood, respectively. Its creator and namesake was the entertainer Dick Clark, who conceived New Year's Rockin' Eve as a younger-skewing competitor to Guy Lombardo's popular and long-running New Year's Eve big band broadcasts on CBS. The first two editions, which were hosted by Three Dog Night and George Carlin, respectively, and featured Dick Clark assuming the rol…

2 new Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest episodes air Thursday, December 31, 2026 on ABC.

New episodes

76 nights

Season 2026

Episodes 1–2

8:00 PM ET

Airs on

ABC

After this
3 episodes expectedNext date not announced

When and where to watch

Release schedule

Known US dates and destinations

  • Season premiere

    Disney+

    Dec 31

    76 nights away

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Dates & episodes

Season guide

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  1. 2026Season 2026Next: Episode 1 · Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2027 - Part 1
  2. 2025Season 2025Original premiere · ABC · 5 episodes
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Episode guide

Season 2026 episodes

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Premiere dates and destinations, not current availability.

  1. 1

    Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2027 - Part 1 source at TVmaze

    Airs on ABC

  2. 2

    Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2027 - Part 2 source at TVmaze

    Airs on ABC

Episode data from TVmaze.

Cast and crew

Cast
Ryan Seacrest, Ciara, Jenny McCarthy, Lucy Hale, Dick Clark, Billy Porter, Jessie James Decker, Rita Ora
Produced by
Barry Adelman, David Ruskey, Michael Dempsey, Ryan Seacrest
About this information

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  • Official show page

    Link supplied by TVmaze under CC BY-SA 4.0. A series-level destination, not confirmation of US availability or any specific season.

  • Season premiere · Disney+December 31, 2026
    ReportedTVmaze
    “TVmaze: Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest season 2026 premieres 2026-12-31 on Disney+”
  • Cast and crew data

    TVmaze · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Next episode schedule

    TVmaze · normalized by Release Night · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Season release history

    TVmaze · 55 season records · CC BY-SA 4.0

Release dates retain the source wording. Season history records original premieres; availability receipts identify options that can be used now or later.

Past changes1 update

  1. Season premiere date announced: December 31, 2026 on Disney+

    Reported by TVmaze

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