Overview
- About 42.5 minutes into New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash, Lainey Wilson’s performance was cut off and the feed shifted to promos and an episode of Matlock.
- The outage lasted roughly 12 minutes before the special returned on CBS and Paramount+, with on‑screen crawls noting technical difficulties.
- Co-host Bert Kreischer told viewers the show lost power in Nashville, and fellow co-host Hardy joked that no one pulled a plug.
- Because the program aired live and ran late in the East, the West Coast broadcast also included the 12‑minute interruption.
- Viewers criticized the abrupt cuts and unexpected programming on social media, building on complaints about the special’s reliability.