When Jimmy Kimmel returns to TV Tuesday night, he’ll likely have fewer viewers than ever, thanks to a continuing blackout of his late-night show by the Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar amid outrage about his comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
The Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, suspended Kimmel indefinitely after the comedian suggested that the person who shot Kirk at Utah Valley University was part of the Make American Great Again movement led by President Donald Trump.
The company announced Monday that Kimmel would return to the air Tuesday night, saying in a statement, “Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt so