He’s back. The “indefinite” suspension for Jimmy Kimmel is over as he is expected to bring back his show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Tuesday.
ABC, which airs the show, made the announcement Monday, according to The New York Times.
“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,” the Walt Disney Company, ABC’s parent company, said in a statement.
“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,” the statement continued. “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.”
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Kimmel and the show were suspended after comments he made about Tyler Robinson, the man charged with assassinating conservative political activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10. Several conservatives said Kimmel was not accurate in his descriptionof Roninson’s political ideology.
From the moment the suspension was announced, it became a rallying cry for those supporting the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech.
Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr said on a podcast that Kimmel’s remarks were a “concerted effort to lie to the American people.” He added the agency was “going to have remedies that we can look at.”
“Frankly, when you see stuff like this — I mean, we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said to host Benny Johnson.
ABC pulled the show after Carr’s remarks.
Kimmel was planning on addressing the situation on Wednesday’s show.
However, senior Disney executives, such as chief executive, Robert A. Iger, and head of television, Dana Walden, reviewed Kimmel’s planned remarks. They thought the remarks would make the situation worse and suspended him and the show.
