NEW YORK (AP) – Jimmy Kimmel is due to return to TV near Tuesday night One week of suspension It sparked a nationwide debate about freedom of speech and the ability to police the words of President Donald Trump’s journalist, commentators And even comics.
ABC paused Kimmel’s show last Wednesday Assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk; “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was announced on Monday. The network returns after a “thoughtful conversation” with the host.
It was still unclear how many ABC affiliates would carry him. Nexstar and Sinclair are two companies that collectively control about a quarter of ABC affiliates, and denounced Kimmel last week. Sinclair said the station will not show Kimmel’s return on Tuesday, but the Nexter has not said it yet.
“The nightmare of our long-standing people is over,” Stephen Colbert joked on his CBS show. Kimmel’s recovery.
ABC was stopped Kimmel indefinitely after the comments he made in a monologue last week. Kimmel suggested that many Trump supporters are trying to capitalize on Kirk’s death, and “deeply trying to characterize this child who killed Charlie Kirk as something other than them.”
Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Kerr said last week that Kimmel was “trying to mislead the American people directly” in his remarks about Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah Mann, who was accused of Kirk’s murder and his motives. Those The motivation remains unknown. Authorities say Robinson grew up in a conservative family, but his mother told investigators last year that his son had turned left politically.
“We can do this in an easy or difficult way,” Carr said before ABC announced the suspension. “These companies can find ways to change their behavior, frankly, to take action in Kimmel. Otherwise, there will be additional work beyond the FCC.”
Those statements set a backlash of movement Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says it’s Carr He acted like a “maphios.” Hundreds of entertainment celebrities, including Tom Hanks, Barbra Streisand and Jennifer Aniston, have signed a letter circulated by the American Civil Liberties Union, which called the ABC move “a dark moment for free speech in our country.”
Some consumers were punished ABC Parent Disney By cancelling your subscription to that streaming service.
Trump was welcoming Kimmel’s suspension, but inaccurately said that the show had been cancelled. Kimmel was a relentless Trump critic in his comedy.
The Trump administration is trying to use threats, litigation and federal pressure to promote more control over the media industry. Trump sued ABC and CBS Through news reports resolved by companies. Trump also filed a honour-loss lawsuit Wall Street Journal and New York Timesand successfully urged Congress to strip federal funds. NPR and PBS.
Even how Kimmel dealt with the controversy of his first show remained a mystery. It can be seen by millions of people.
Disney and ABC executives reportedly negotiated returns for several days before announcing the resolution. The ABC statement said the suspension occurred because some of Kimmel’s comments were “untimed and therefore insensitive,” but that didn’t call them misleading.
Andrew Corvette, a spokesman for Turning Point USA, founded by Kirk and led by a widow, posted on X, “It’s no surprise that we’ll allow Disney and ABC’s Caving and Kimmel to air, but that’s their mistake.”
The suspension occurred as the scenery was changing late at night. The show is losing viewers. This is because many watches highlight online the next day. CBS announced Cancellation of Colbert’s Show During the summer. Kimmel’s contract with ABC is reportedly going to last until May.
Colbert recently won an Emmy Award for his outstanding talk series in his opening monologue Monday, saying, “One more, I’m the only martian late at night!”
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Associated Press authors Mark Kennedy and James Pollard in New York and Patrick Whittle in Portland, Maine contributed to the report.
