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President Donald Trump won’t be\u00a0getting his wish.\u00a0ABC said Monday it has signed\u00a0late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel\u00a0to a one-year contract extension.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n Kimmel’s previous, multiyear contract had been set to expire next May, so the extension will keep him on the air until at least May 2027.<\/p>\n Kimmel’s future looked questionable in September, when ABC\u00a0suspended \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d\u00a0for remarks made following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Following a public outcry, ABC lifted the suspension, and Kimmel\u00a0returned to the air\u00a0with much stronger ratings than he had before.<\/p>\n He continued his relentless joking at the president’s expense, leading Trump to urge the network to \u201cget the bum off the air\u201d in a social media post last month. The post followed Kimmel’s nearly 10-minute monologue on Trump and the Jeffrey Epstein files.<\/p>\n Kimmel was even on Trump’s mind on Sunday as the president\u00a0hosted the Kennedy Center Honors\u00a0in Washington.<\/p>\n \u201cI’ve watched some of the people that host,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI’ve watched some of the people that host. Jimmy Kimmel was horrible, and some of these people, if I can’t beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don’t think I should be president.\u201d<\/p>\n Kimmel has hosted the Oscars four times, but he’s never hosted the Kennedy Center show.<\/p>\n Just last week, Kimmel was needling Trump on the president’s approval ratings. \u201cThere are gas stations on Yelp with higher approval ratings than Trump right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Kimmel will be staying longer than late-night colleague Stephen Colbert at CBS. The network announced this summer it was ending Colbert’s show next May for economic reasons, even though it is the top-rated network show in late-night television.<\/p>\n ABC has aired Kimmel’s late-night show since 2003, during a time of upheaval in the industry. Like much of broadcast television, late-night ratings are down. Viewers increasingly turn to watching monologues online the day after they appear.<\/p>\n Most of Kimmel’s recent renewals have been multiyear extensions. There was no immediate word on whose choice it was to extend his current contract by one year.<\/p>\n Bill Carter, author of \u201cThe Late Shift\u201d and veteran chronicler of late-night TV, cautioned against reading too much into the length of the extension. Kimmel, at age 58, knows he’s getting close to the end of the line, Carter said, but when he leaves, he doesn’t want it to appear under pressure from Trump or anyone.<\/p>\n \u201cHe wants to make sure that it’s on his terms,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n Kimmel has become one of the leading voices resisting Trump. \u201cI think it’s important for him and for ABC that they are standing up for him,\u201d Carter said.<\/p>\n Following Kirk\u2019s killing, Kimmel was criticized for saying that \u201cthe MAGA gang\u201d was \u201cdesperately 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 The Nexstar and Sinclair television ownership groups said it would take Kimmel off the air, leading to ABC’s suspension.<\/p>\n When he returned to the air, Kimmel did not apologize for his remarks, but he said he did not intend to blame any specific group for Kirk’s assassination. He said \u201cit was never my intention to make the light of the murder of a young man.\u201d<\/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 spectrumnews1.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Donald Trump won’t be\u00a0getting his wish.\u00a0ABC said Monday it has signed\u00a0late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel\u00a0to a one-year contract extension. 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