Fans of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will have to make do without new episodes for the time being.

ABC confirmed that it has indefinitely pulled the Jimmy Kimmel's late night talk show following comments he made on a Sept. 15 episode regarding the fatal shooting of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

The controversial remarks were made during his opening monologue when the "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" host criticized supporters of President Donald Trump following the arrest of Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old charged in Kirk's murder.

"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," he said on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

Trump, a frequent critic of the talk show host, celebrated the suspension in a Truth Social post where he claimed the show had been canceled.

"Great News for America: The ratings-challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible," Trump wrote at 1 a.m. in the UK amid a historic second state visit to Britain.

He then urged NBC to cancel both "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" and "Late Night with Seth Meyers," writing "two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!"

Has 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' been canceled?

As of Sept. 17, Kimmel has not officially been fired and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" has not been officially canceled.

Instead the talk show "will be pre-empted indefinitely," an ABC spokesperson said in a statement to USA TODAY Wednesday.

Nexstar Media Group Inc. said it would stop airing the show on its 32 ABC affiliates. It wrote: "Mr. Kimmel's comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse," said Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar's broadcasting division.

What has the FCC chairman said?

Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had seemingly threatened ABC, Disney and Kimmel over his monologue about Kirk during a YouTube episode of commentator Benny Johnson's show on Sept. 17. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr said.

In a Fox News interview Wednesday, Carr said it is time for broadcasters and the FCC to fufill its "unique obligation" of operating in the public interest. He criticized late-night shows for "enforcing a very narrow political ideology" instead of "being court jesters that would make fun of everybody in power." "And Nexstar, as you noted, stood up and said, 'Look, we have the license, and we don't want to run this anymore. We don't think it serves the interests of our community.' Sinclair did the same thing," Carr said. "So, there's more work to go, but I'm very glad to see that America's broadcasters are standing up to serve the interests of their community. We don't just have this progressive foie gras coming out from New York and Hollywood."

USA TODAY has reached out to Kimmel's representatives for comment.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Was Jimmy Kimmel fired? Here's the status after ABC 'pre-empts' show

Reporting by Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY / USA TODAY

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