Sky York Journal
Jimmy Kimmel is returning to TV.
ABC shared that Jimmy Kimmel Live! will resume on Sept. 23, six days following the news that the late-night show was being indefinitely suspended due to comments Jimmy made about Charlie Kirk’s death.
“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,” the network said in a Sept. 22 statement to NBC News. “It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.”
But ABC and Kimmel have since discussed the initial choice at length. As the network put it, “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.”
The halt on Kimmel’s show was confirmed by ABC on Sept. 17, two days after the 57-year-old addressed the discourse around Kirk’s death, specifically tied to the individual suspected of his murder, Tyler Robinson.
“The MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” Kimmel said during his Sept. 15 monologue, “and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
