Disney Announces ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Will Return September 23 Following Temporary Suspension

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is returning to ABC less than a week after it was announced that it had been suspended indefinitely due to comments the late night host made about Charlie Kirk’s murder.

“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,” Disney said in a statement on Monday, September 22, per USA Today. “It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”

Kimmel, 57, criticized the response from Republicans the day after Kirk was shot and killed at the age of 31 during the first stop of his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley University on September 10.

As the National Enquirer previously reported, Disney’s ABC told NPR and other outlets that “Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely” on Wednesday, September 17, following remarks Kimmel made on Monday’s episode about Charlie Kirk’s murderer.

“The MAGA Gang (is) 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 stated at the time. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”