{"id":240602,"date":"2025-09-20T04:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240602\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:33:08","slug":"will-jimmy-kimmel-live-keep-upcoming-scheduled-run-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240602\/","title":{"rendered":"Will ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Keep Upcoming Scheduled Run in Brooklyn?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs the entertainment community rallies behind Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> in the wake of ABC\u2019s sudden yanking of his late-night show at the behest of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, pressing questions remain about his immediate future on the network. Namely, whether the show\u2019s upcoming residency at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, scheduled to air from Sept. 29 through Oct. 3, will go on.<\/p>\n

\n\tSources close to the production tell Rolling Stone that trucks containing the show\u2019s staging are due to leave Los Angeles today, Sept. 19, in order to make the cross-country trek to New York. To relocate the show for five days is a costly move: north of $5 million, estimates an industry insider. Video showing members of Kimmel\u2019s Hollywood crew packing up gear surfaced on social media yesterday, adding to the confusion \u2014 and speculation (was Margo Price Kimmel<\/a>\u2019s last-ever guest?) \u2014 about whether the show will ever return to air. (Representatives for ABC and Kimmel did not respond to requests for comment.)<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel\u2019s future at ABC was thrown into doubt on Wednesday, when the network abruptly pulled the show following conservative outcry over a joke the host made<\/a> during a recent monologue about the suspect accused of killing Charlie Kirk. During an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, Carr said \u201clicensed broadcasters\u201d should push back against ABC\u2019s parent company Disney and \u201cpreempt\u201d Kimmel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe can do this the easy way or the hard way,\u201d Carr continued. \u201cThese companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there\u2019s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNot long after, Nexstar and Sinclair \u2014 two media conglomerates which own ABC affiliates around the country \u2014 announced that they would preempt Kimmel. (As has been widely noted, Nexstar is seeking to pull off a $6.2 billion merger with Tegna, which will require the FCC\u2019s approval.) ABC made its decision to pull the show soon after.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Brooklyn bow holds special significance for Kimmel, who was born in the borough and spent his early childhood years there. Indeed, Kimmel has staged runs at BAM on seven different occasions<\/a>, dating all the way back to 2012, and he has a full slate of guests already booked for this year\u2019s run (including fellow embattled late-night vet Stephen Colbert<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNew York is Jimmy\u2019s hometown and Brooklyn has always been a high-energy crowd\u201d for the show, says a source, who also characterizes ABC\u2019s decision as particularly shocking given that Kimmel and Disney chief Bob Iger are \u201cvery tight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe timeline of events suggests there were several opportunities for the network to flag any comments in the monologue deemed offensive. Kimmel is intimately involved in every aspect of the show\u2019s production, from ideation to delivery, the source says, but there are protocols in place during which any number of people could have requested an edit or removal. The broadcast standards department could, and often does, step in during the writing phase and can request that the team axe a joke entirely. And since the show is not live (despite its title), and tapes at 4 p.m. Pacific Time, there is ample time to tweak and edit before it airs three hours later. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt goes through a lot of hands,\u201d says the insider, who adds that such cuts are routinely made \u201cat every [late-night] show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOne possible explanation for how the remark evaded further scrutiny is that it was in actuality fairly innocuous. Kimmel\u2019s exact words were: \u201cWe hit some new lows over the weekend with the\u00a0MAGA<\/a>\u00a0gang 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tFox News\u00a0took<\/a>\u00a0those comments to mean that Kimmel had suggested the \u201cKirk shooter was part of [the] \u2018MAGA gang.\u2019\u201d Carr, for his part, didn\u2019t just jump on the bandwagon; the FCC chief was its grand marshal.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut also muddling standard operating procedures is the fact that, according to the insider, ABC doesn\u2019t have a dedicated late-night executive. Instead,\u00a0Kimmel\u00a0rolls up to the network\u2019s EVP for Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, who oversees many shows. \u201cIt\u2019s such a disservice,\u201d says the insider.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Rolling Stone previously reported<\/a>, in the hours leading up to the decision to pull Kimmel, two sources familiar with the matter say, senior executives at ABC, its owner Disney, and affiliates convened emergency meetings to figure out how to minimize the damage. Multiple executives felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources said, but the threat of Trump administration<\/a> retaliation loomed.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey were pissing themselves all day,\u201d one ABC insider told\u00a0Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs has been reported elsewhere, along with the threats from affiliate owners, Disney was also fielding calls from concerned advertisers. Disney employees even reported being doxxed or receiving death threats, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. When ABC learned that about 66 out of approximately 200 affiliates were prepared not to air Kimmel on Wednesday, Iger and Disney\u2019s head of TV, Dana Walden, made the decision to pull the show. Walden reportedly delivered the news to Kimmel personally.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen the call was made to pull Kimmel on Wednesday, existing protocol dictated that ABC should\u2019ve aired a pre-approved episode of the show to rerun. To which one staffer allegedly joked, \u201cWhy don\u2019t we just run last night\u2019s show?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut word purportedly came down from master control that Celebrity Family Feud would air in its place. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t discussed with anyone,\u201d claims the source.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Thursday, Kimmel and his representatives reportedly met with Disney executives, including Walden, to discuss the controversy, but no solution was reached. According to Puck<\/a>, Kimmel has stuck to his desire to issue a statement that would clarify he never believed Kirk\u2019s alleged killer was MAGA, but reportedly would also take aim at Fox News and other conservatives he believed dishonestly distorted his original comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSources at Disney have told outlets like Puck and THR that Kimmel\u2019s proposal was \u201cnot helping the situation\u201d and would \u201cfan the flames with the MAGA fan base.\u201d A Kimmel source countered to THR that he wasn\u2019t \u201cmaking it worse,\u201d but insisting he \u201cwasn\u2019t kowtowing\u201d to the uproar.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe decisions by Nexstar and ABC to silence Kimmel over relatively innocuous comments is the latest sign of how fearful major corporations and media companies have grown of the second Trump administration. The president and his lieutenants have made clear that they\u2019re willing to leverage the full weight of the federal government against networks and their parent companies, especially if TV personalities or comedians on the network say things that annoy Trump.<\/p>\n

\n\tEven before Trump won the 2024 election, he and some of his closest advisers had plotted how to use the FCC and other powerful federal organs to punish late-night comics whom Trump has hated for years.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s also not the first time Kimmel has found himself at odds with Iger and Disney brass. Back in 2013, Kimmel faced corporate fire for a bit that aired on his show in which he asked a bunch of first-graders for suggestions on how the U.S. should deal with the massive debt the U.S. owed China. One boy replied, \u201cKill everyone in China,\u201d to which Kimmel deadpanned, \u201cOK, that\u2019s an interesting idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time, Disney was keen on making further inroads into China<\/a>. It had already tweaked aspects of its films, such as Iron Man 3, to ensure their distribution there, and the company was also aiming to open a $4.4 billion Disneyland Shanghai theme park.<\/p>\n

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\n\tABC wound up issuing an apology, while Kimmel also addressed<\/a> the controversy on air, saying, \u201cI thought it was obvious that I didn\u2019t agree with that statement, but apparently it wasn\u2019t. So I just wanted to say, I\u2019m sorry, I apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for the current crisis, the insider offers that Disney \u201ccould have avoided this whole mess by moving Kimmel to Hulu. The future of late-night may be on streaming, where you can watch whenever you want and skip past whatever you don\u2019t. It\u2019s how people consume these shows, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the entertainment community rallies behind Jimmy Kimmel in the wake of ABC\u2019s sudden yanking of his late-night…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,11171,50812,4352,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-240602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","10":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","11":"tag-trump-administration","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115234760808074525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}