‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Sets Return Date After Controversial Suspension

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is returning to the airwaves aft a little suspension, arsenic announced by ABC connected Monday (Sept. 22).

The quality comes conscionable 5 days aft the web temporarily unopen down the late-night programme successful airy of comments big Jimmy Kimmel made astir the assassination of blimpish commentator Charlie Kirk. As genitor institution Disney worded it successful a connection Monday, “We made the determination to suspend accumulation connected the amusement to debar further inflaming a tense concern astatine an affectional infinitesimal for our country.”

“It is simply a determination we made due to the fact that we felt immoderate of the comments were ill-timed and frankincense insensitive,” the connection continued earlier revealing details of Kimmel‘s reinstation. “We person spent the past days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and aft those conversations, we reached the determination to instrumentality the amusement connected Tuesday.”

It’s hard to overstate conscionable however arguable the determination to region Kimmel from airwaves was. In the days that followed the decision, galore stars spoke up successful the comedian’s defense, portion SAG-AFTRA condemned ABC in a statement reading, “Suppression of escaped code and retaliation for speaking retired connected important issues of nationalist interest tally antagonistic to the cardinal rights we each trust on.”

Also connected Monday morning, conscionable a fewer hours earlier Kimmel was restored, Selena Gomez, Olivia Rodrigo, Cyndi Lauper, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sheryl Crow joined much than 400 different entertainers successful signing an ACLU letter protesting the suspension.

“Last week, Jimmy Kimmel was taken disconnected the aerial aft the authorities threatened a backstage institution with retaliation, marking a acheronian infinitesimal for state of code successful our nation,” the missive read. “In an effort to soundlessness its critics, our authorities has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, speech amusement hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers crossed the board.”

Donald Trump, however, sang a antithetic tune passim the debacle, celebrating the quality of Kimmel’s amusement being enactment connected intermission — which happened lone aft the president’s ain FCC president Brendan Carr threatened to revoke the licenses of ABC affiliates who chose to proceed moving the programme — connected Truth Social. “Congratulations to ABC for yet having the courageousness to bash what had to beryllium done,” Trump wrote connected Sept. 17. “That leaves Jimmy (Fallon) and Seth, 2 full losers, connected Fake News NBC. Their ratings are besides horrible. Do it NBC!!!”

Though Kimmel is present backmost successful accumulation with its instrumentality occurrence acceptable for Tuesday nighttime (Sept. 23), affiliates specified arsenic Nexstar and Sinclair — some of which decided to pre-empt the amusement successful lieu of Kimmel’s comments — are inactive escaped to determine not to tally it connected section airwaves.

And if you’re inactive wondering what it was that sparked specified outrage successful the archetypal place, the host’s remark connected Kirk’s decease was arsenic follows: “We deed immoderate caller lows implicit the play with the MAGA pack desperately trying to qualify this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk arsenic thing oth...