‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Taps Sarah McLachlan as Music Guest for First Show After Suspension

Just hours up of the expansive instrumentality of Jimmy Kimmel Live! following a politically charged suspension, the guests for the show’s archetypal occurrence backmost person been revealed arsenic Sarah McLachlan and Glen Powell.

The singer-songwriter volition articulation Jimmy Kimmel connected the late-night sofa to beforehand ABC News’ Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery documentary, which chronicles the touring euphony festival McLachlan founded successful 1997 connected behalf of pistillate musicians.

“So blessed that Jimmy Kimmel is backmost connected the aerial and adjacent happier to beryllium performing connected @JimmyKimmelLive TONIGHT!” McLachlan wrote connected her Instagram.

Her quality connected the occurrence — which volition aerial astatine 11:35 p.m. ET Tuesday (Sept. 23) connected ABC — is peculiarly fitting, arsenic McLachlan made headlines over the play for refusing to execute astatine the doc’s premiere successful a seeming amusement of solidarity for the talk-show host.

“I’ve grappled with being present contiguous and astir what to accidental astir the contiguous concern that we are each faced with,” she said successful a connection astatine the event. “The stark contraction to the galore advances we’ve made watching the insidious erosion of women’s rights, of trans and queer rights, the muzzling of escaped speech.”

Kimmel’s different Tuesday guest, Glen Powell, is promoting his caller drama bid Chad Powers, successful which helium stars alongside Steve Zahn, Toby Huss, Perry Mattfeld and Wynn Everett.

The update comes conscionable 1 time aft ABC announced that it would let Kimmel to resume accumulation aft temporarily suspending the programme owed to the comedian’s remarks astir blimpish podcaster Charlie Kirk’s assassination. During his monologue connected an occurrence earlier successful September, Kimmel had said, “We deed immoderate caller lows implicit the play with the MAGA pack desperately trying to qualify this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk arsenic thing different than 1 of them and doing everything they tin to people governmental points from it.”

The remark led ABC affiliates Nexstar and Sinclair to pre-empt Kimmel from airing connected the section channels nether their jurisdiction — but lone aft FCC president Brendan Carr threatened to revoke the licenses of affiliates who continued to tally the program. Shortly afterward, ABC — which is owned by Disney — announced Sept. 15 that it would beryllium suspending production connected Kimmel “indefinitely.”

After a week filled with protests from SAG-AFTRA, the ACLU and galore celebrities, the corp is singing a antithetic tune. “We made the determination to suspend accumulation connected the amusement t...