Comes back Jimmy Kimmel Live! After a week of suspension following a joke from his presenter about the murder of Charlie Kirk, the program will grill on Tuesday. With this, the Disney giant is planted – after a week with a huge rain of criticism – before Donald Trump and his administration, which he has sought by all means to cancel both this space and many others as popular and critical of his government.
The return has been confirmed by The Walt Disney Company, the ABC’s parent company (chain in which the night program is issued) in a statement. “Last Wednesday we made the decision to suspend the production of the program to avoid inflaming a tense situation in a moment of great emotion for the country,” says the note. “It is a decision that we made because we felt that some comments could have been made in a bad time and, therefore, be insensitive.”
“We have spent the last days having deep conversations with Jimmy and, after them, we have reached the decision that the show Return on Tuesday, ”they say. As explained by the media Varietyspecialized in entertainment, the decision to bring Kimmel back has been approved by the highest instances, from Bob Iger, the company’s CEO, to Dana Walden, co -president of Disney Entertainment. The publication has made by the decision thinking about “the best for the company, and not external factors.”
He show Kimmel was suspended sine die On Wednesday afternoon, after a comment made by the presenter about the murderer of the ultraconservative leader Charlie Kirk. In his monologue from Monday night in Jimmy Kimmel Live!he suggested that Kirk’s alleged murderer, Tyler Robinson, could have been a republican Trump follower with the following message: “This weekend we played background. The magic gang (of the acronym Make America Great Againlet’s make the US again) he is desperately trying to characterize this boy who murdered Charlie Kirk as something different from one of them and doing everything possible to get political revenue, ”said the four -time host of the Oscars.
The suspension of the program has led to the United States to seriously consider how freedom of expression is being treated, expressly protected in the first amendment of its constitution. Hundreds of names from the world of politics and entertainment, as well as associations for the rights of artists or the defense of the Constitution, have expressed their disbelief in this regard. Even President Barack Obama came to talk about it: “After years talking about cancellation culture, the current administration has reached a new and dangerous level with its routine threats to impose regulatory actions against media companies if they do not dismiss reporters and opinioners who are not to their pleasure.”
Last Thursday, Kimmel’s television grid colleagues, from Jon Stewart to Stephen Colbert, through Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon, came out in their defense in each and every one of their programs, from humor and irony. This Monday, more than 400 artists, together with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), signed a letter accusing Trump’s government of having a position similar to that of the witch hunt caused by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the fifties. A handful of protesters protested on the Paseo de la Fame, in Hollywood, in front of the theater where the program is recorded; Many others did it at the Disney offices in Burbank, north of Los Angeles.
The criticisms against the position taken by the ABC chain have been constant, crossing out the census chain against Kimmel. In fact, it was especially striking that last week in his morning program The view His commentators would not take the subject either, when he was the most commented on networks and corrillos throughout the country. This Monday, Whoopi Goldberg, one of his presenters stars, said that Thursday decided to wait to see if Kimmel himself spoke – something that, during these days of suspension, has not done. “We did the same with Stephen Colbert,” they said, only that Colbert spoke immediately after the announcement. On Friday, he explained, the program was recorded. “But today we are here, live, and we are going to talk about the matter now,” he said, to effectively chat about the matter.
After Kimmel’s comment about Kirk on Monday night, Trump’s administration took out all the artillery. He did it above all through the figure of Brendan Carr, president of the Communications Regulator, the FCC, for its acronym in English. “We can do it in the easy way or the difficult one,” he said without hesitation in a podcast. “These companies can find how to change the behavior and take measures on Kimmel, frankly, or the FCC will have a job ahead.” They decided to do it for the bad.
Hours after the threat of Car, the network of 200 Nexstar local chains, affiliated with ABC and that reaches 70% of the population of the United States, decided to suspend the broadcast of the program and announced that it would not appear in its channels. Nexstar is in a complex situation, an operation to get one of its largest rivals, called Tegna, for no less than 6,200 million dollars. And, of course, for this you need the permission of the FCC. After the fall of Kimmel of Nexstar, ABC arrived, owned by the Disney conglomerate. And with this the suspension of one of the most veteran programs of the American nights, with 22 years of continued broadcast.
Of course, Trump congratulated the fall of Kimmel. He had already asked for his head months before, in July, when the CBS chain announced that he would stop broadcasting the Stephen Colbert night program in May 2026. “I really like to fire him (…). I think the next is Jimmy Kimmel. It is even less talented than Colbert!” He said then. Now, two months later, he wrote a very similar message on his Truth social network. “Good news (for the country): they have canceled the Jimmy Kimmel program, which has had audience problems,” he said. “Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what should be done. Kimmel does not have a talent apex and even worse audience indices that Colbert, if possible. That leaves Jimmy (Fallon) already seth (Meyers), two complete losers, in NBC false news. His audience rates are also lousy.
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