ABC’s decision to reinstate “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” starting Tuesday – following its move less than a week earlier to suspend the show in response to the host’s comment about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing – has been met with relief from many politicians and celebrities, and some criticism from the right.
The Walt Disney Co., which owns ABC, said in a statement Monday that it had “spent the last days having thoughtful conversations” with Kimmel, “and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”
Disney said it had made the decision last week to “indefinitely” preempt Kimmel’s late-night TV program because of “ill-timed and thus insensitive” comments made on the show. The show’s suspension came after Kimmel delivered a monologue accusing “the pre