It looks like leadership at ABC wants to bring Jimmy Kimmel back to television, if they can.

Kimmel met with Disney TV executive Dana Walden and ABC late-night chief Rob Mills in Los Angeles Thursday, but ended without a path for the comedian to return to "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," according to Puck’s Matt Belloni.

“I’m told the meeting was cordial but ended this evening without Kimmel agreeing to do more than what he wanted to say on Wednesday,” Belloni wrote.

Kimmel was preparing to address the right-wing backlash over his remarks Wednesday, but wasn’t planning on issuing an apology, according to multiple reports. Instead, he wanted to target President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters in a monologue one source described to CNN as “very hot.”

“Disney thought that went too far,” Bell

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