The Walt Disney Company has announced that the latenight host will return Tuesday. Jimmy Kimmel set to return to air after ABC suspension for Charlie Kirk comme

The Walt Disney Company has announced that the late-night host will return Tuesday.

Jimmy Kimmel set to return to air after ABC suspension for Charlie Kirk comments

The Walt Disney Company has announced that the late-night host will return Tuesday.

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September 22, 2025 4:08 p.m. ET

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Jimmy Kimmel will be returning to air nearly a week after ABC pulled his late-night program, *Jimmy Kimmel Live*, over the host's comments about the death of Charlie Kirk.

"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," ABC's corporate parent, the Walt Disney Company, said in a statement Monday.

The company added, "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."**

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ABC announced last week that Kimmel's show had been preeempted "indefinitely" after he said of Kirk's alleged killer, "We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it."

The ABC move came after Nexstar Media Group, the owner of many local TV stations, issued a press release objecting to Kimmel's remarks and saying that its ABC affiliates would be preempting *Jimmy Kimmel Live*.

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