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NextImg:Jimmy Kimmel’s Show Is Coming Back

ABC announced today that Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show would return to the airwaves tomorrow night.

The show was suspended “indefinitely” last week after a top federal regulator and many conservatives criticized Kimmel for erroneously suggesting that the man accused of assassinating the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was a MAGA follower. Disney, which owns ABC, said today that while some of Kimmel’s comments were “ill-timed and thus insensitive,” the company decided to bring back the show after discussing the matter with Kimmel for several days.

Kimmel began negotiating his show’s return last week with top Disney executives, including Robert Iger, the C.E.O. An initial meeting ended with Kimmel declining to agree to changes in a monologue he had planned to deliver on the matter. The two sides came to a resolution this morning, according to a senior executive.

Kimmel’s brief removal from air became a flashpoint for free speech. President Trump celebrated the move and said that the government should consider revoking the licenses of networks that broadcast criticisms of him. Many liberals, and even some conservatives, condemned the suspension as an attack on free expression.

It is still unclear whether major television operators, such as Nexstar and Sinclair, will air future episodes of the show. Nexstar has good reason to appease federal regulators: It is pursuing a merger.

In related news, college professors have been fired or suspended for comments they made in the wake of Kirk’s shooting, following a playbook pushed by Kirk himself.



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