The network pulled the show after the Federal Communications Commission chair threatened regulatory action after the host's comments about Charlie Kirk's death.

The network pulled the show after the Federal Communications Commission chair threatened regulatory action after the host’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s death.

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show will return to ABC’s airwaves on Tuesday, nearly a week after it was suspended amid criticism of the host’s remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

But many households across the U.S. still may not see the show. Sinclair, a company that operates more than 35 ABC affiliates across the U.S., said that it would replace Kimmel with news programming.

“Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return,” Sinclair said in a statement.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Been saying it since yesterday…

    It all depends on Jimmy’s monologue.

    We all know what he said wasn’t a big deal. If he comes out and offers any type of apology, fuck him and fuck the mouse.

    If he comes out and goes harder on trump and flat out says how big of a first amendment issue this was, and Disney doesn’t yank him again. Then I have zero issues restarting my subscription.

    But we got a wait a couple days and see how it goes.

    I’ll cancel and resubscribe every week if that’s what it takes to show Disney where the line is, it takes zero fucking effort and is an immediate quantifiable metric for the corpos