Jimmy Kimmel at the Disney Advertising Upfront on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.<\/p>\n
Michael Le Brecht | Disney General Entertainment Content | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Disney<\/a> said in a statement Monday that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to its ABC broadcast on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The decision came nearly a week after ABC said it was suspending the late night show indefinitely,<\/a> shortly after the host made comments linking the alleged killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to President Donald Trump’s<\/a> MAGA movement.<\/p>\n “Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,” according to a statement from Disney. “We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”<\/p>\n Federal Communications Commission<\/a> Chair Brendan Carr had suggested ABC’s broadcast license was at risk in light of the comments, telling CNBC “we’re not done yet”<\/a> with changes to the media landscape.<\/p>\n The suspension drew comparisons to CBS’s<\/a> cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in July and raised questions about the protection of free speech<\/a> in a Trump-era broadcast environment.<\/p>\n Trump’s scrutiny of media companies has intensified during his second term marked by high-profile defamation lawsuits, the defunding of public broadcasters and regulatory interference from the FCC. He’s particularly singled out ABC and NBC<\/a> for what he called “unfair coverage of Republicans and\/or Conservatives.”<\/p>\n Current and former late show hosts including Colbert and David Letterman rallied behind Kimmel<\/a> after the suspension and said the president’s influence amounted to censorship. Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner blasted the FCC’s “intimidation” of ABC.<\/a><\/p>\n This is breaking news. Please check back for updates. <\/p>\n Disclosure: Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal, which owns CNBC. Versant would become the new parent company of CNBC upon Comcast’s planned spinoff of Versant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel at the Disney Advertising Upfront on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. Michael Le Brecht | Disney General…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6461,114,357,458,10119,6420,54,146,85,46,4176,2400,397,4274,11603],"class_list":["post-31562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-news-business","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-celebrities","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-life","tag-movies","tag-paramount-skydance-corp","tag-walt-disney-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}