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Deadline understands that the person on the other end of the line of the phone was Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Dana Walden<\/a>.<\/p>\n Just hours before Kimmel was set to start filming tonight\u2019s show, Disney\u2019s top TV exec had a \u201cthoughtful conversation\u201d with the comedian, per sources. This came after the decision was made by Walden<\/a> and CEO Iger.<\/p>\n \u201cBoth sides were very businesslike and polite,\u201d one source said.<\/p>\n Walden and Iger made the decision to \u201cpreempt\u201d Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live! \u201cindefinitely\u201d to tamp down controversy after FCC<\/a> Chairman Brendan Carr<\/a> called Kimmel\u2019s comments about Charlie Kirk<\/a>\u2019s killer \u201csome of the sickest conduct possible\u201d.<\/p>\n Kimmel made it clear he was unwilling to apologize for his remarks, according to insiders, and was going to direct the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jimmy Kimmel learned in a phone call Wednesday afternoon that his 22-year late-night run on ABC was put on hold, at least for now. Deadline understands that the person on the other end of the line of the phone was Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Dana Walden. Just hours before Kimmel was set to start filming tonight\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2030583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2030582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Kimmel-On-Pause-Why-Did-Disney-Preempt-Him-Who-Made.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}