Jimmy Kimmel‘s late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! is officially returning on Tuesday night (September 23) after a nearly week-long suspension.
If you missed the news, on Wednesday (September 17), ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely following comments the 57-year-old late-night host made in the wake of right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk‘s death.
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ABC and Disney said in a statement (via Variety), “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. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. 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.”
And if you don’t know, these are believed to be the comments that led to ABC’s decision to suspend.
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