\u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d is set to return to ABC\u2019s airwaves on Tuesday following the late night host\u2019s suspension over comments made about Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassin.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast 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,\u201d Disney said in a statement. \u201cIt is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n The decision comes after four days of talks between Disney leadership and Kimmel\u2019s representatives. The crew of \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d was paid during the hiatus.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Kimmel was suspended indefinitely from ABC and their affiliate stations owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcasting on Sept. 17 for comments made in his monologue two days earlier.<\/p>\n \u201cWe hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n Nexstar and Sinclair had knocked the comments \u201coffensive,\u201d \u201cinappropriate\u201d and \u201cdeeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country.\u201d After ABC suspended the host, Sinclair took things a step further, demanding an apology to the Kirk family, a donation to Turning Point USA and \u201cformal discussions\u201d with ABC regarding \u201cthe network\u2019s commitment to professionalism and accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n Kimmel was preparing to address the backlash during his show on Sept. 17, but Disney felt what he wanted to say \u201cwould have continued to enrage\u201d conservatives. The two sides couldn\u2019t come to an agreement on how to address the uproar in a way that brought the temperature down, and TheWrap was told that the situation became \u201cunsafe\u201d as Disney employees were fielding death threats.<\/p>\n But Disney has also faced pressure from the other side, with protests from writers and union members and over 400 artists signing an open letter from the American Civil Liberties Union slamming the decision to pull Kimmel. Some celebrities also called for the public to cancel their Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ subscriptions in the wake of the fallout.<\/p>\n Nexstar and Sinclair\u2019s decision to pull Kimmel followed a warning from Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr that the agency would take action against Kimmel and Disney for the comments.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can do this the easy way or the hard way,\u201d Carr said, suggesting that the government had \u201cremedies\u201d if the network did not act. Those comments have since sparked criticism from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n Nexstar is notably looking to merge with rival Tegna in a $6.2 billion deal and Sinclair is exploring M&A opportunities for its broadcast business \u2013 both moves that would require FCC approval. The two companies have also been pushing the FCC to lift the 39% cap on broadcast TV station ownership, a rule Carr has called \u201carcane\u201d and \u201cartificial.\u201d The agency\u2019s review on the matter has been opened up for public comment and will be discussed during the FCC\u2019s open committee meeting next week.<\/p>\n During Concordia\u2019s 2025 Summit on Monday, Carr said Democrats were \u201ccompletely misrepresenting\u201d the work of the FCC and that allegations that he threatened to revoke ABC\u2019s broadcast license if they didn\u2019t fire Kimmel \u201cdid not happen in any way, shape or form.\u201d<\/p>\n He added that he and the FCC \u201cexpressed no view\u201d on the merits of complaints about Kimmel and that the FCC is trying to empower local TV stations to serve the needs of their local communities.<\/p>\n \u201cYou got national programmers, like Disney, like Comcast, like Paramount, that aren\u2019t licensed by the FCC, that have no public interest obligation, and they provide a lot of the primetime shows that the licensed TV stations put out over the air. And what\u2019s happened over the years is that those national programmers have exerted more and more control and pressure on the local TV stations,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey don\u2019t feel like they can push back on the national programmers, even when they think there\u2019s some content that they don\u2019t think in their judgment, not my judgment, makes sense for the local communities.\u201d<\/p>\n He added that the agency wants \u201cwide open, robust, uninhibited debate\u201d on social media and cable, but argued broadcast TV is \u201cjust different.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s got a license. There\u2019s a public interest standard, and Congress has called on the FCC to enforce that. And if people don\u2019t like it, they can go to Congress and change the law, or they can turn their license in,\u201d he concluded. \u201cThere are people that are interested in trying to create a narrative that simply, I don\u2019t think exists.\u201d<\/p>\n Representatives for the FCC, the White House, Nexstar and Sinclair did not immediately return TheWrap\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n The post \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019 Sets Tuesday Return After ABC Suspension<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/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.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d is set to return to ABC\u2019s airwaves on Tuesday following the late night host\u2019s suspension over comments made about Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassin. \u201cLast 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,\u201d Disney said in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2029849,"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":[25173],"tags":[374318,340116,308201,23060,374836,378036],"class_list":["post-2041924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-brendan-carr","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-disney-entertainment","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-nexstar-media-group","tag-sinclair-broadcasting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ben-Stiller-Jessica-Chastain-to-Star-in-Apple-TV-Thriller.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041924","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=2041924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n