Uncanceled: Kimmel Comes Back.
Jimmy Kimmel is coming back.
ABC said on Monday that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would return to its airwaves on Tuesday, ending an impasse that began last week.
“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,” the Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, said in a statement.
“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,” the statement said. “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.”
Disney did not say whether all ABC affiliates, some of which balked at carrying “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last week, would carry Tuesday’s show. At least one television group that owns some ABC affiliates said on Monday evening that it would not broadcast it. By John KoblinBrooks BarnesMichael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin, ‘New York Times’
Jimmy Kimmel was cancelled after his recent remarks but is now headed back to his late night perch. His show will have some of its highest ratings as everyone will be waiting with bated breath to see what Kimmel says about the firing incident. Disney was caught in an unenviable position of being in the middle of the proverbial firestorm.
