Jimmy Kimmel returns to late-night television of six days

Against Dawn Chmielewski Los Angeles (Reuters) -Jimmy Kimmel would return to ABC’s television series in the late night, after a almost week -long suspension over his remark remarks about the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk who described corporate parent Walt Disney as “insensitive. On his first night back, the comedian expected his comments from last week that arranged a few viewers, tackled the threats of federal regulatory actions and boycott of the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Show through two major television stations groups. While Disney announced on Monday that it is ready to repair Kimmel in ABC’s air waves, station owners Nexstar Media and Sinclair said they would continue to predict Kimmel’s time slot with other programming on their network affiliate stations, reaching about 23% of US households. Kimmel, whose performance President Donald Trump showed regularly, drew outrage of conservatives for saying that Trump’s supporters were desperate to characterize Kirk’s accused assassin “as something other than one of them” and to “judge” political points “from his murder. The remarks come in the opening monologist of Kimmel’s broadcast on September 15, five days after Kirk, an influential Trump constituency, author and radio-Podcast host, was shot dead while talking on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem. Brendan Carr, head of the Federal Communications Commission, who regulates broadcasters, said on a podcast hosted by Conservative commentator Benny Johnson on September 17, that Kimmel’s remarks were part of an attempt to lie to the American public about the politics of the man who was accused of killing Kirk. He requested local broadcasters in ABC’s network to stop looking for Kimmel and warned stations that they could otherwise experience fines or the loss of licenses. “We can do it in the easy way or the difficult way,” Carr said. The production of the Kimmel show was stopped on an indefinite basis shortly after Carr comments, because Nexstar announced that he would not wear the late night program. Sinclair followed the same day. Carr’s attack on Kimmel was his latest attempt to utilize media companies for perceived prejudice against the Trump administration and Republicans, and has fear among free speech advocates who regarded the chairman of the FCC as the regulatory authority of the agency as a herd and criticism of many Democrats and some Republicans. Kimmel planned to address the growing controversy last Wednesday, but Disney’s managers feared that the monologue would have ignited the situation – and suspended the show. From Tuesday afternoon, Kimmel did not comment in public about his suspension. In the announcement of the show’s return, Disney said he had found Kimmel’s comments about Kirk the week before “was not time and thus insensitive,” but the entertainment giant stopped giving a complete excuse. (Reporting by Dawn Chmelewski in Los Angeles; Editing by Steve Gorman and Matthew Lewis)