Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return tomorrow
Jimmy Kimmel's talk show will return to screens on Tuesday night, a week after his suspension for remarks about Charlie Kirk's murder. The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, said they'll 'return the show on Tuesday' in a statement.
Kimmel had been banned from public airwaves since Wednesday after suggesting MAGA supporters were trying hard to distance themselves from Kirk's alleged killer Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old from southern Utah .
A Disney spokesperson said: '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. '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.'
No further details were provided. Kimmel's controversial comments occurred on his show this past Monday. '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 with everything they can to score political points from it,' he 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.'
Kimmel then played clip of Trump responding to a question about how he was coping with Kirk’s death, before poking fun at the president's mourning process. He was reprimanded just two days later for his comments by FCC boss Brendan Carr.
Carr told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson he was considering an investigation into Kimmel and ABC over the remarks on Wednesday. Within hours, more than a dozen ABC affiliates told ABC and Disney it would not be airing Kimmel's show until the remarks were addressed.
Disney and senior ABC execs then made the call to pull Kimmel's show 'indefinitely.' The two parties had been engaged in talks since, in hopes of finding a way to get the show back on the air.