Jimmy Kimmel and Disney are reportedly negotiating a compromise that might enable for his discuss present to return to air.
Enterprise and authorized representatives for the longtime late-night host have been in talks with the higher-ups at ABC and its guardian firm, Disney, with the hopes of bringing “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” again to TVs nationwide, Selection reported, citing three sources with data on the matter.
The present was abruptly pulled off the air on Wednesday, with executives saying it will be “preempted indefinitely” over Kimmel’s remarks in regards to the discourse triggered by the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Since then, the 11:35 p.m. slot has been crammed with reruns of “Celebrity Family Feud,” and a Charlie Kirk memorial particular that aired Friday.
Kirk was shot on Sept. 10 throughout a scholar Q&A at Utah Valley College as a part of his American Comeback Tour. He was hit within the neck by a lone bullet through the outside occasion on the Orem campus and was rushed to a hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless a short while later.
Kirk, the co-founder of conservative group Turning Level USA and a significant President Trump ally, was 31 years outdated.
Proper-wing activist Charlie Kirk (R) speaks on stage with President Donald Trump at America Fest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 22, 2024. (Picture by JOSH EDELSON/AFP through Getty Pictures)
In wake of the lethal taking pictures, Trump and his conservative allies had been fast to position blame on “the radical left,” whereas Democrats instructed the shooter’s ideologies appeared to slant extra to the appropriate.
Kimmel’s ousting was particularly prompted by feedback he made throughout his opening monologue Monday evening, suggesting that Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of killing Kirk, appeared to align extra with conservative beliefs regardless of the appropriate’s efforts to sentence the left.
“The MAGA gang [is] 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,” Kimmel mentioned, whereas criticizing the president for rhetoric that solely served to additional divide America.
Kimmel’s feedback dealt solely with the political aftermath of Kirk’s homicide, not the heinous act itself. The truth is, proper after the shootings, he posted his grief on Instagram and broadcast help to Kirk’s spouse and their two younger children.
“Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human?” Kimmel wrote on the day Kirk was shot. “On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.”
Initially Revealed: September 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM EDT
