Jimmy Kimmel's Show Will Return to the Air 6 Days After Being Pulled 'Indefinitely,' Disney Announces Dory Jackson, Julia MooreSeptember 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM 6.6k Randy Holmes/ABC via Getty Jimmy Kimmel on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' on October 2, 2023.
- - Jimmy Kimmel's Show Will Return to the Air 6 Days After Being Pulled 'Indefinitely,' Disney Announces
Dory Jackson, Julia MooreSeptember 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
6.6k
Randy Holmes/ABC via Getty
Jimmy Kimmel on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' on October 2, 2023. -
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is officially returning to air on Tuesday, Sept. 23
Disney's ABC previously pulled host Jimmy Kimmel's show "indefinitely" after comments he made surrounding Charlie Kirk's assassination.
The late-night series premiered on ABC in 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! isn't over just yet.
On Monday, Sept. 22, the Walt Disney Company issued a statement confirming that the show will return on Tuesday, Sept. 23.
"Last 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. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive," the statement read, referring to comments Jimmy Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk's assassination on Sept. 15.
"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."
Disney/Randy Holmes
Jimmy Kimmel on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' on January 15, 2025.
The Sept. 15 episode broadcast of Kimmel's show saw him discussing world events in his opening monologue, which eventually shifted to discussing Charlie Kirk. The right-wing commentator, who founded Turning Point USA, was fatally shot on Sept. 10 while at a speaking event at Utah Valley University. He was 31.
Tyler Robinson was charged with aggravated murder in connection with Kirk's death.
"We 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," Kimmel said. "In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving."
"On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this," he continued, before a clip played of President Donald Trump partially addressing reporters' questions about how he was coping with former ally Kirk's death before moving on to another matter.
Prior to the episode, Kimmel offered his condolences on social media to Kirk's family.
"Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human?" he wrote. "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."
Disney/Randy Holmes; PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty
Jimmy Kimmel (left) and Charlie Kirk.
Two days later, an ABC spokesperson told PEOPLE that Kimmel's "comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located."
"Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to preempt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue."
The network's action follows Nexstar Media's own decision to halt airings of Kimmel's show. Nexstar Media is the largest local broadcast and digital media company in the U.S. that owns more than 200 television stations in 116 markets. In a statement shared with PEOPLE, Nexstar Media noted that its "owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the foreseeable future, beginning with tonight's show."
The company recently announced plans to acquire rival broadcast company Tegna for $6.2 billion, putting Nexstar in 80% of America's TV-owning households, per a press release. The acquisition requires final approval from the Trump-controlled Federal Communications Commission.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr praised Nexstar on Wednesday on pressuring ABC to remove Kimmel, writing on X that "it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community values."
Kimmel and Trump had been engaged in a long-standing feud prior to this point, with the political figure even predicting that the former's talk show would be the next axed after the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show.
At the time Kimmel's show was suspended, Trump noted on Truth Social that this was "great news for America."
Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty; Neil Hall/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty
Jimmy Kimmel; Donald Trump.
Even though Kimmel has been able to resume production on his show, he had previously teased in a February 2024 interview with the Los Angeles Times that the three-year contract he signed in 2022 would possibly be his last.
He had been working on the show since 2003.
— sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
"I hate to even say it, because everyone's laughing at me now — each time I think that, and then it turns out to be not the case," he joked at the time.
"I still have a little more than two years left on my contract, and that seems pretty good," he added. "That seems like enough."
on People
Source: "AOL AOL Entertainment"
Source: FORTE MAG
Full Article on Source: FORTE MAG
#LALifestyle #USCelebrities