ABC Pulls Plug On Jimmy Kimmel ‘Indefinitely’…
In a surprising flip of occasions, Disney ABC has pulled the plug on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “indefinitely amid the late-night host making feedback about the late conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
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“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson confirmed Wednesday to GWN.
During his Monday monologue, Kimmel accused the MAGA motion of exploiting Kirk’s death for political gain.
“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.
As you may think about, Trump’s allies responded immeditaley including FCC commissioner Brendan Carr called the remarks “the sickest conduct possible” and prompt the company might review ABC’s affiliate licenses if Disney failed to act.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr warned during an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.
Carr also described Kimmel as “talentless” and “desperately irrelevant.”
Variety experiences that the choice got here after Nexstar, one of the biggest operators of ABC associates, announced it will not air the late-night show “for the foreseeable future.”
The company added that it “strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.”
Kimmel and Trump have a historical past of going back and forth, with the President once mocking the late-night host as “even less talented” than Stephen Colbert, whose show is being canceled by CBS.
This story is still developing…
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