LOS ANGELES — ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel's late night show off the air indefinitely amid controversy over his comments about Charlie Kirk's alleged killer Tyler Robinson.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson said in a statement to media outlets.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang 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,” Kimmel said in his monologue Monday.
Kirk, a conservative political activist, was shot and killed Sept. 10 during an event on the Utah Valley University campus. The suspected shooter, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson , was arrested Friday.
ABC's move comes after the Federal Communicatio