{"id":418445,"date":"2025-12-02T01:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/418445\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T01:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:50:16","slug":"wicked-special-gets-nye-encore-snoop-dogg-gets-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/418445\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wicked&#8217; Special Gets NYE Encore; Snoop Dogg Gets Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>UPDATED to correct Snoop Dogg special replaced by \u2018Toast to 2026\u2019: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nbc\" data-tag=\"nbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC<\/a> is bringing back <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/wicked-one-wonderful-night\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wicked-one-wonderful-night\" data-tag=\"wicked-one-wonderful-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wicked: One Wonderful Night<\/a> for a special encore presentation on New Year\u2019s Eve, from 8-10 pm ET\/PT, and Snoop Dogg\u2019s canceled NYE special has gotten a replacement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe two-hour Snoop Dogg special was originally slated to air live on NBC on New Year\u2019s Eve at 10:30 pm ET\/PT, but it was canceled last month due to Snoop Dogg\u2019s commitments for the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics. \u201cSometimes the calendar gets in the way of the celebration,\u201d Snoop Dogg said at the time. It\u2019s being replaced by A Toast to 2026!, a two-hour special airing at 10:30 PM ET\/PT. The retrospective special will look back at the most fun and funny pop culture moments of the year, including special guests Ethan Slater, Jim Gaffigan, Tiffany Haddish, Bobby Moynihan, David Alan Grier and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWicked: One Wonderful Night, which airs from 8-10 PM, will be followed at 10 PM by a half hour of local news. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Wicked special, which initially aired Nov. 6, drew 3.6M viewers across platforms after three days, per Nielsen, making it the network\u2019s second best special of the year, coming in behind only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/02\/snl50-anniversary-special-ratings-nbc-peacock-1236293191\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February\u2019s\u00a0SNL50: The Anniversary Special<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFilmed at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, the special is led by Wicked: For Good stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, who perform alongside co-stars Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang and Marissa Bode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe special also includes an emotional reunion with Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Erivo and Grande in a performance of \u201cFor Good\u201d, from the Gershwin Theatre in New York City, the location of the original Broadway Wicked show. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSince its release on Nov. 21, Wicked: For Good has earned almost $400 million at the global box office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWicked:\u00a0One\u00a0Wonderful\u00a0Night is produced by Fulwell Entertainment. Ben Winston and Raj Kapoor executive produce.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED to correct Snoop Dogg special replaced by \u2018Toast to 2026\u2019: NBC is bringing back Wicked: One Wonderful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":418446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,1030,67,132,68,175727],"class_list":{"0":"post-418445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-nbc","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wicked-one-wonderful-night"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115647468295253533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}