NBC Sets Hour-Long Jimmy Fallon Holiday Special
BY JED ROSENZWEIG of the LateNighter
The hardest-working man in late night announced yet another extracurricular project Thursday: a new hour-long holiday music special.
Airing in primetime after NBC’s annual presentation of Christmas in Rockefeller Center, Jimmy Fallon’s Holiday Seasoning Spectacular will see the Tonight Show host reunited with many of the performers featured in his new holiday music album, including Meghan Trainor, Cara Delevingne, Dolly Parton, J.B. Smoove, Jonas Brothers, Justin Timberlake, LL COOL J, The Roots and “Weird Al” Yankovic.
The special will conclude with a spectacular finale from the Top of Rockefeller Center that will pair Fallon alongside–who else?–the Radio City Rockettes.
Fallon’s love of the holidays is well documented. The host pulls out all the stops for the season with various holiday bits on The Tonight Show, and did the same on Late Night and Saturday Night Live. Together with Chris Kattan, Tracy Morgan, and Horatio Sanz, Fallon made it a tradition over several years to perform the original Christmas song he co-wrote with Sanz, “I Wish It Was Christmas Today.”
In 2020, he released a children’s book called 5 More Sleeps ’til Christmas, which this year begat a Halloween-themed spinoff titled 5 More Sleeps ’til Halloween.
Fallon has been working on his new album, Holiday Seasoning, for years now. The record is packed with 16 original holiday songs, including the three previously released singles “Almost Too Early For Christmas” with Dolly Parton, “It Was A…(Masked Christmas)” with Ariana Grande and Megan Thee Stallion, and “Wrap Me Up” with Meghan Trainor.
Jimmy Fallon’s Holiday Seasoning Spectacular is produced by Jesse Collins, whose past producing credits include The Oscars, The Grammys, the Emmys, and the Super Bowl Halftime special.
The special will air on NBC December 4th at 10:00 PM,and streams next day on Peacock.
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