Christmas in Rockefeller Center 2024

The lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City often serves as the quasi-kickoff to each entertainment holiday season. I happened to catch it in its entirety this year and was a bit underwhelmed.

This isn't a bad special, by any means. It has a couple of great songs from Kelly Clarkson (I wish there would have been more on that front) and the Backstreet Boys will always draw eyeballs and nostalgia.

But other than that, it wasn't exactly a who's who of performers or performances. Perhaps the cold weather and snowy conditions played a role in an event that seemed a little slow/boring at times.

At the end of the day, this is network TV personified: a few moments of true entertainment teased out amongst two hours of mid-level tedium.