{"id":210830,"date":"2025-10-09T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/210830\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:26:08","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-wants-dana-walden-to-be-the-next-disney-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/210830\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Wants Dana Walden To Be The Next Disney CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJimmy Kimmel<\/a> opened up about the events of the last month as well as his thoughts on the future leadership of Disney and whether he\u2019d ever invite President Trump on his show in his first wide-ranging interview since the furor.<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel didn\u2019t, however, want to discuss his own late-night future.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking at the Bloomberg Screentime event, Kimmel broke down the timeline of the days after his comments on the killer of Charlie Kirk kicked off a major storm and credited Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Dana Walden with helping to work it out.<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel revealed that he didn\u2019t think there was a \u201cbig problem\u201d with his comments, but rather saw it as a \u201cdistortion\u201d on the part of right-wing news networks.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe said he had \u201creally good conversations\u201d with Disney CEO Bob Iger and Walden after the decision to take Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>! off the air. \u201cThese are people that I I\u2019ve known for a long time, and who I like very much, and we all wanted this to work out best. First of all, I ruined Dana\u2019s weekend. It was just non-stop phone calls all weekend. But I don\u2019t think the result, which I think turned out to be very positive, would have been as positive if I hadn\u2019t talked to Dana as much as I did, because it helped me think everything through, and it helped me understand where everyone was coming from because I can sometimes be reactionary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tLater in the discussion, Kimmel said that he thought Walden should become the next CEO of Disney. After joking that he is never in the conversation, he said, \u201cIt would be very foolish for me to answer that question but I happen to love Dana Walden very much, and I think she\u2019s done a great job. I think what has happened over the last like three weeks, I think was very unfair to my bosses at Disney. I don\u2019t think anyone should ever be put in a position like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Kimmel, who has previously regularly commented on his late-night future ahead of contract talks, didn\u2019t want to be drawn on whether he\u2019ll continue past next year when his deal is up. \u201cI often answer that question, and then I do the opposite of what I said previously. I said this is going to be like my last one [on the] last three contracts. I said this is the last one. So, I\u2019ve learned not to say anything anymore, because it upsets my staff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe host did reveal that the budget of these late-night shows was around $120M per year, but said that he didn\u2019t think they needed to be that expensive.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a reason for these shows to go away. I think there are different. There are ways. These shows started out because they were a way to get high priced talent for almost free. That was the whole trick. That was the whole reason they started these shows. It was deemed to be promotional. So, the idea that these shows need to cost $120M is crazy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked whether he\u2019d invite FCC chair Brendan Carr and\/or President Trump on to his show, he replied, \u201cI\u2019d love to have Trump on the show, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel also talked about the popularity of his show on YouTube. \u201cI never have changed my show to make it for YouTube. I\u2019m very, very conscious of the fact that ABC<\/a> pays for the show, and YouTube pays nothing, and YouTube gets to sell it and keep half the money. That\u2019s quite a deal for them. It really is. But I\u2019ve never made the show for YouTube. With that said, I love YouTube, and I love being on YouTube, because all you really want deep down, is for as many people to see your stuff as you can.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe admitted that he knows that has hurt his linear ratings. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s kind of what has killed late-night TV. More likely, the fact that we have our lead ins are a 10th of what they were when I started. That\u2019s probably more likely the reason. But I love the idea that people in other countries are watching YouTube,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel opened up about the events of the last month as well as his thoughts on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1855,88,17114,11575,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-210830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","11":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}