{"id":366039,"date":"2025-11-09T04:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366039\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T04:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:10:11","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-personal-matter-prompts-episode-postponement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366039\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel ‘personal matter’ prompts episode postponement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimmy Kimmel’s right to free speech is not up for debate<\/p>\n

After Jimmy Kimmel was abrupted pulled from late night TV, many are questioning the government’s attempts to control it.<\/p>\n

The Thursday, Nov. 6, episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a>” was postponed on short notice, leaving viewers with a rerun instead.<\/p>\n

The episode featuring “Malice” actor David Duchovny<\/a> and “Stranger Things<\/a>” star Joe Keery<\/a> was never filmed due to a personal matter involving Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, according to someone familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n

Viewers expecting a new episode rewatched a rerun of the Oct. 28 episode instead. Fans with tickets to the Nov. 6 taping at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles were notified about the postponement and told they would be invited to a future taping, Deadline<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

Pop singer Madison Beer<\/a>, who was scheduled to be the musical guest for the episode, acknowledged the episode’s postponement on her Instagram story.<\/p>\n

“Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jimmy Kimmel Live needed to reschedule my performance that was originally set to air tonight to a later date. I\u2019ll share more details on timing when I can, I can\u2019t wait for you all to see it,” Beer wrote.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear whether the guests, Duchovny, Keery and Beer, will return to complete the originally scheduled taping.<\/p>\n

Duchovny and Keery’s representatives did not respond to a USA TODAY request for comment.<\/p>\n

Postponement comes after the series was suspended<\/p>\n

The Thursday postponement marked the first time “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was halted since ABC suspended the talk show in September<\/a> following outrage over remarks he made about the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The six-day suspension started on Sept. 17 and followed criticism from Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr regarding Kimmel’s\u00a0Sept. 15 monologue<\/a>. Soon after, both\u00a0Nexstar Media Group<\/a> and Sinclair Broadcasting Group<\/a> announced they would not air the show across their ABC affiliate stations.<\/p>\n

The show returned to ABC on Sept 23, when the comedian called critics’ response to his comments “intentionally, and I think maliciously, mischaracterized.” Kimmel emphasized that it was “never my intention to make light” of Kirk’s death.<\/p>\n

Kirk’s wife, Erika Kirk<\/a>,\u00a0recently revealed that she spoke with the\u00a0Sinclair Broadcast Group<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0Kimmel’s controversial comments<\/a>\u00a0about her late husband.<\/p>\n

“They asked, ‘Do you want Jimmy to give you an apology? Do you want to be on a show? How can we make it right?'” Kirk said. “Through our team, I responded. I said, ‘Tell them thank you. We received their note. This is not our issue. This is not our mess,'” she told Jesse Waters in a Fox News interview<\/a>\u00a0that aired Nov. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel’s right to free speech is not up for debate After Jimmy Kimmel was abrupted pulled from…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":366040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[647,648,185,665,80778,19719,171,120075,120792,8972,563,628,11171,50812,127271,15916,2252,4003,4550,425,666,451,50,940,450,457,3997,3197,3996,173,40624,4004,646,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-366039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","12":"tag-charlie","13":"tag-charlie-kirk","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-erika","16":"tag-erika-kirk","17":"tag-guides","18":"tag-instagram","19":"tag-jimmy","20":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","21":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","22":"tag-kimmel","23":"tag-kirk","24":"tag-life","25":"tag-life-now","26":"tag-live","27":"tag-local","28":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","29":"tag-negative","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-now","32":"tag-overall","33":"tag-overall-negative","34":"tag-programs","35":"tag-reference","36":"tag-shows","37":"tag-tv","38":"tag-tv-guides-u0026-reference","39":"tag-tv-shows-u0026-programs","40":"tag-u0026","41":"tag-united-states","42":"tag-unitedstates","43":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366039","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=366039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}