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ABC’s determination to “indefinitely” droop Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night speak show might straight affect its other reveals, including the freshly returned Dancing With the Stars. Fans are now threatening to boycott the show’s landmark twentieth anniversary season.

The actuality competitors collection made its big return on Tuesday evening, seemingly to big scores following the show’s resurgence in current years, with 14 celebrities headed to the dance ground to attempt and win the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy.

However, following large outrage from fans and other Hollywood stars over Kimmel’s axing, the collection might now face a large plummet in scores that jeopardizes its future.

Many fans have threatened to no longer watch the show due to Kimmel’s axing, by canceling subscriptions to ABC’s streaming platforms and flat out refusing to tune in.

Many took to Reddit to share their plans as they formulated the boycott.

“So I love the show, and have been watching since season 8. I will not watch another episode this season, and canceled D+, ABC, Hulu because of their decision to cancel Jimmy Kimmel. I cannot support a company that cowers to political pressure to censor their programming. It never stops with just the comedians,” one individual said.

“Until Kimmel is back on the air, I’m out,” another wrote. “It was a great season while it lasted.”

“I watched for the very first and last time on Tuesday. Was looking forward to this season but f–k ABC,” another added.

“I’m so freaking disappointed. After being excited for this season for months, and getting so hype last night…this has thrown a bucket of rancid water over all of it. ABC has no backbone…worse, no integrity. Not sure how I can continue to support them by watching,” another shared.

Many shared that they might discover other methods to keep caught up on the show and assist the forged members they love.

“I’ll watch the dances on YouTube or TikTok and just continue to vote for my faves regardless,” one said.

“Yep!! Already canceled both Disney and Hulu. Usually someone is streaming it on TikTok or they upload the dances to Twitter!” another added.

“Yes. Sad, but this is more important to me. We are canceling our subscription this weekend and saving money. I will watch clips online, but I won’t be voting or watching it on ABC/Disney,” a third shared.

The boycott might immensely harm the show because it airs live on ABC and Disney+, and is launched onto Hulu the next day.

It might also show devastating, as the show has skilled an uptick in its viewership in the last few years, after a downturn that noticed it on the brink of potential cancellation.

The show averaged over 20 million viewers in its first 17 seasons, but began to see big drops to under 10 million viewers starting in Season 24. After dropping to the bottom numbers in Seasons 30 and 32, the show loved a small uptick in Season 33, with an average of 6.36 million viewers.

The Season 34 premiere initially confirmed great promise, with Variety reporting that the episode introduced in 5.53 million complete viewers–a 6% increase general. Fan voting also rose to 21 million votes, a 163% rise.

Fans are revolting due to Kimmel being taken off the air for what had been said to be insensitive feedback about not too long ago assassinated right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed last week during a talking engagement at a Utah college.

Since then, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson has been arrested and charged with his death, and his background has been totally scrutinized in the media, with many pointing to his background in a Republican household, and noting he had seemingly began embracing different viewpoints due to his relationship with his roommate, a male who is transitioning to a feminine.

Kimmel addressed the portray of Robinson as a “leftist” on his broadcast Monday evening, saying, “We hit 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 doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

He also skewered President Donald Trump and how he was seemingly grieving his good friend, with a point out of the White House ballroom.

“This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend; this is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK?” Kimmel said.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr then threatened to pull the licenses of corporations that broadcast ABC to its syndicate stations around the nation on Wednesday, shortly before Sinclair Inc. and Nexstar, which own many of those stations, both announced they might take away Kimmel from their lineups. ABC as a entire adopted soon after.

Nexstar and Disney, which owns ABC, both have major merger acquisitions that also need FCC approval. Nexstar plans to purchase Tenga, which can additional broaden its attain and quantity of stations, while Disney is in the method of having ESPN, which it also owns, buy the NFL Network.

Sinclair, meanwhile, said it could not return to broadcasting Kimmel’s show unless he issued an apology and made sizable donations to both Kirk’s household and his group, Turning Point USA.

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Following the news of Kimmel’s show being pulled, the President, who ominously warned Kimmel he was “next” when he beforehand celebrated the news of Stephen Colbert’s cancelation, took to Truth Social to have fun it, and then made new warnings to NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, who host The Tonight Show and Late Night. 

“Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done,” he wrote.

“Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse rating than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!! President DJT.”