The presenter Jimmy Kimmel, who was removed from the grid following a dispute about his comments on the assassination of influence Charlie Kirk, will return to the ABC post, CNN, The New York Times and Sky News.
The show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” He will return to ABC on Tuesday night, announced the television station, in a press release.
“Last Wednesday, I made the decision to suspend the production of the show to avoid aggravating a tense situation at an exciting moment for our country,” said a Walt Disney Company spokesman, owner of ABC.
“It is a decision that I made because I considered that some of the comments were inappropriate and, therefore, insensitive. In the last few days I had serious discussions with Jimmy and, after them, I have reached the decision to resume the show on Tuesday,” said the spokesman.
The night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” It was sudden and indefinitely removed from the programs grid last week, after the President of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, and the affiliated positions threatened ABC on the comments made by Kimmel in a monologue on the reaction of the Maga movement to the assassination of the Charlie Kirk Conservative activist.
Last week there were protests against Disney in front of the headquarters of the New York and Burbank, California, as well as in front of the Hollywood theater where Kimmel's show is registered.
On Monday, over 400 artists and celebrities in Hollywood, including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Selena Gomez, Lin-Manel Miranda, signed an open letter in support of Kimmel.
Kimmel's show has between 200 and 250 employees.
Suspension of the show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” It has almost immediately transformed into a hot point for freedom of expression in America, NYT notes.
The supporters of freedom of expression have condemned the rapid decision of the company to remove Kimmel from the emission.
Conservatives welcomed the decision, and the US president reiterated his threat of pressing for television networks to lose their licenses because they allowed anti-trump and anti-Maga opinions.
ABC withdrew the show just hours after Brendan Carr, the president of the US Federal Communications Commission, said in a podcast that Kimmel's remark was part of a “concerted effort to lie to the American people” and that the American Agency “will take corrective measures that we will analyze.”
Carr suggested that the Commission could open an investigation and that the television stations could be fined or could lose their licenses if they found that they have hosted a model of distorted comments.
“This is a very, very serious problem at the moment for Disney. We can do this slightly or hard,” Carr said in an interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson, broadcast last Wednesday.
“Disney has to show a change here, but the individual licensed stations that take on their content must take attitude and say that these nonsense, as far as they will be broadcast in the future, are not something that we consider to serve the needs of our local communities,” Carr continued.
Disney has not publicly explained his decision at the time, and Kimmel has not yet publicly commented on the show. Kimmel's representatives and Disney directors discussed days to reach a viable compromise.
Kimmel, who frequently attacked Trump in his show broadcast late at night on ABC, was strongly criticized for comments made in his last month.
“I went down below the weekend, when Gașca Maga desperately tried to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as one of them and tried everything he could get political points,” Kimmel said in the comments that attracted his suspension.
Kirk, known for his divisive opinions and aggressive debate style, was deadly shot in his throat while talking at a university in Utah two weeks ago.
