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Regis to Drop the Ball on Clark
Regis Philbin will not be denied.
Spurned by Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve a year after stepping in for the holiday show's then-ailing host, Philbin will ring in 2006 on Fox.
The 90-minute New Year's Eve Live, airing Dec. 31 from New York City's Times Square, will mark Philbin's first ever appearance on the 19-year-old network--a surprising factoid considering it seems impossible that the always-on Philbin could have been off somewhere.
"I'm very happy to be asked to welcome in the New Year on TV," Phibin said in a statement Wednesday.
Philbin was asked to welcome in the New Year on TV last year, too. Only the network doing the asking was ABC.
It was on Dec. 6, 2004, that Clark, the TV legend and forever host of ABC's New Year's Rockin' Eve, suffered what was termed a mild stroke. When it became clear that Clark wasn't going to be camera-ready by Dec. 31, Philbin was drafted. At the time, Clark described himself as "thankful" that his fellow broadcast veteran had remade his New Year's Eve plans on short notice.
With Philbin at the helm, New Year's Rockin' Eve drew its best prime-time numbers in three years and handily beat Carson Daly's countdown show on NBC and Ryan Seacrest's on Fox.
But when plans for the latest New Year's Rockin' Eve were announced in August, Philbin wasn't in them. Seacrest was.
The American Idol ringmaster was tapped to be the returning Clark's cohost and locked into a deal that will make New Year's Rockin' Eve his sole domain once the World's Oldest Teenager reaches retirement age.
Clark described himself as "elated" to have Seacrest on board. And arguably, the hire made demographic sense. The 76-year-old Clark (as of Nov. 30) and the 31-year-old Seacrest (as of Dec. 24) offer a more diverse matchup than Clark and a 74-year-old Philbin would have.
For its part, the usually youth-obsessed Fox, ditched by Seacrest, expressed no qualms about hiring someone who is old enough to be Julie Cooper's husband on The O.C..
"Having a true New York icon like Regis ring in the New Year from Times Square is something that we are already celebrating," Fox executive Mike Darnell said in a statement.
In addition to his holiday duties, Philbin will keep himself occupied with his day job on Live with Regis & Kelly, and his new night job as host of a revived This Is Your Life for ABC.
Meanwhile, with Philbin and Seacrest switching jobs, Daly moves up to second on the seniority list among New Year's Eve hosts with one show. Clark, in first place, is to log his 33rd year with Rockin' New Year's Eve; Daly is set to put in his second for NBC.
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