After some disastrous New Year’s Eve telecasts, the ABC managed to successfully tap-dance its way into 2023.
It was, as ABC co-host Charlie Pickering said at the kick-off of the New Year’s Eve broadcast, almost normal.
“After a few rough years, life is now as normal as it can be,” he noted, and that’s how we describe pretty much everything in these sort-of-but-not-quite post-pandemic times. And nowhere was the feeling of almost-normal more welcome than in the annual December 31 knees-up that was delivered from Sydney Harbour by the ABC for the 10th year since it took over the broadcast from Channel Nine.
After the disaster of that first year — a TV train wreck that wound up being sternly discussed in federal parliament - the ABC show has settled into a largely controversy-free telecast that has to tap-dance its way across one of the toughest broadcasts on the TV calendar. How to be everything to all people, from the kiddies early on, through to their probably inebriated elders later in the night? To that end, the 2022 passage to 2023 ticked all the boxes, and ticked them well.
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