Posted on 12/08/2025 3:46:51 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Jimmy Kimmel has signed a one-year extension with Disney’s ABC Network and will continue to host Jimmy Kimmel Live! through at least 2027, the Guardian has confirmed.
Bloomberg first reported the news on Monday, noting that Kimmel and Disney struck a new one year extension. His current contract had been set to expire in May 2026.
Kimmel and Disney agreed on the extension several months ago but delayed announcing their plans out of respect for fellow late-night host Stephen Colbert, according to Bloomberg.
This summer, CBS announced that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert had been cancelled and would end in May 2026.
The news of Kimmel’s renewal on Monday comes several months after Kimmel’s show was briefly suspended by ABC in September under pressure from two of the network’s biggest affiliate partners, Nexstar and Sinclair, as well as the Federal Communications Commission. Kimmel had made comments related to the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, specifically accusing Donald Trump’s political movement of exploiting Kirk’s killing.
His suspension drew widespread outrage and ignited a national debate over free speech.
The US-based free speech advocate group the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression said at the time of the suspension that it was an example of another media outlet that had “withered under government pressure, ensuring that the administration will continue to extort and exact retribution on broadcasters and publishers who criticize it.
“We cannot be a country where late night talk show hosts serve at the pleasure of the president. But until institutions grow a backbone and learn to resist government pressure, that is the country we are.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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I hope Dizzyknee has lots of liability insurance. Kimmel likes to do at least one malicious defamation per year on his show.
Throwing good money after bad... Disney needs new management.
Who?
Why quit when you’re on a losing streak, right Disney? Just double down, I’m sure America will warm up to him any day now.
This is what happens when a pack of fags try to run an entertainment co.
Doubling down on stupid.... luckily for Disney stock holders, they are not in it for making money or increasing stock value.
I thought he wuz dead?
Fools and their money.
The slant of this “article” is pretty rich considering it is coming from the British leftist rag that is The Guardian
Talented individuals don’t want to host television shows. Without a line of potential replacements, television executives have few options and might was well extend Jimmy Kimmel year by year.
Didn’t he get fired?
This is grounds for Trump to yank their broadcast license. Enough talk just do it.
And down the memory hole it goes....
He’s Disney’s favorite fag.
One year.
Why would anyone own DIS?
Great News! now I will have time to not listen to that douche bag’s supposed humor.
Kimmel is a none person, desperately trying to be funny, who will never get the attention of ANY PERSON WITH TASTE OR MANNERS!
That is what I noticed too. Odd to see that for someone at that level of show business.
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