ABC Pulls Plug On Jimmy Kimmel ‘Indefinitely’

In a surprising flip of occasions, Disney ABC has pulled the plug on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! “indefinitely amid the late-night host making feedback in regards to the late conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

“Jimmy Kimmel Reside will likely be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson confirmed Wednesday to CNN.

Throughout his Monday monologue, Kimmel accused the MAGA motion of exploiting Kirk’s loss of life for political achieve.

“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately making an attempt to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something apart from considered one of them and doing every little thing they’ll to attain political factors from it,” Kimmel mentioned.

As you may think about, Trump’s allies responded immeditaley together with FCC commissioner Brendan Carr known as the remarks “the sickest conduct attainable” and recommended the company may evaluation ABC’s affiliate licenses if Disney did not act.

“We are able to do that the straightforward method or the onerous method,” Carr warned throughout an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.

Carr additionally described Kimmel as “talentless” and “desperately irrelevant.”

Selection stories that the choice got here after Nexstar, one of many largest operators of ABC associates, introduced it will not air the late-night present “for the foreseeable future.”

The corporate added that it  “strongly objects to current feedback made by Mr. Kimmel regarding the killing of Charlie Kirk and can exchange the present with different programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.”