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From a fantastic local DJ line-up to watching the ball drop in Times Square, here are seven ways to ring in 2021 at home.
SABC1 for the first time in 16 years will not broadcast
Come Duze New Year s Eve Special
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M-Net (DStv 101) has the 2020 Royal Variety Performance scheduled for Thursday at 20:30.
From a fantastic local DJ line-up to watching the ball drop in Times Square, here are seven ways to ring in 2021 at home on Thursday.
1. SABC1
Due to Covid-19 health and safety protocols, SABC1 for the first time in 16 years, will not broadcast Come Duze New Year s Eve Special on 31 December, instead of replacing it with a studio-based virtual show,
Share It was a funny routine, she had to dress as a really old lady with a face mask and I threw her in the box. Inside she had a costume change and she came out in a leotard. Then we turn up at the Royal Variety and Stephen Mulhern is doing a magic trick and who’s his assistant but Faye – and she’s being put back in a box again. We had a right laugh about that. I watched the rehearsal before I’d even had chance to say hello and she came off stage and said: This is all your fault Courtenay!
Gary Barlow and Covid make for harrowing end of year viewing Independent.ie 13/12/2020 Eilis O Hanlon
It could so easily have become an exercise in ghoulish voyeurism, but Ireland Under Lockdown: Covid 19 Stories was a much more substantial piece of work, skilfully utilising its relatively short running time to take a sobering look back at how Ireland has coped with the coronavirus since ominous reports of a new deadly disease emerged from China at the start of the year.
Presenter Zara King did so by concentrating on the human impact of the pandemic. Watching the families of some of those who died this year, still distraught at what they were put through, was heartbreaking. It didn t feel like an exaggeration when one wondered: Is this our world war?
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Dolly Parton stars in The Late Late Show country special, there s a Dionne Warwick retrospective on BBC Four, there’s the The Royal Variety Performance 2020, and Meryl Streep on the double with Little Women and The Prom . . .
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The Late Late Show, 9.345pm, RTÉ One
Every year Ryan Tubridy hosts a Late Late Show country music special but this year’s event was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Until now, that is.
To make things even better for country fans, the main guest on the show will be none other than superstar Dolly Parton, who famously donated a million dollars to aid the search for a Covid-19 vaccine.