After a tumultuous few weeks, Jimmy Kimmel is taking his present to the East Coast for per week, the place he’ll chat up a visitor listing that features a fellow late-night host.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” which normally broadcasts from a studio in Hollywood, California, will air from the Brooklyn Academy of Music for per week’s price of exhibits.
Guests will embody Stephen Colbert – whose personal New York-based late-night present was canceled earlier this year – Spike Lee, Tom Hanks, Bruce Springsteen, Ryan Reynolds and Emily Blunt.
Kimmel quipped on the present Thursday night time that “what we have to do now is stay on the move so the FCC can’t get us.”
On Friday, Sinclair, one of many two main station teams that preempted Kimmel’s present earlier this month, stated it might convey the present again.
The different main station group blacking out Kimmel, Nexstar, didn’t instantly reply to NCS’s request for remark about its plans.
The visitor lineup for Kimmel’s Brooklyn stint comes after he returned to his present on Tuesday night time after a close to week-long suspension amid strain from Donald Trump’s administration and following Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer that led ABC to halt production of his show.
ABC – the Disney-owned community which airs the late-night program – first introduced Kimmel’s present was suspended “indefinitely” final week after Kimmel stated on his present that the “MAGA gang” was “desperately trying” to characterize Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, “as anything other than one of them.” Kimmel additionally claimed that Trump loyalists have been “doing everything they can to score political points” from the assassination.
The ensuing suspension spurred hypothesis that Kimmel – whose contract is up subsequent 12 months – wouldn’t return to the present altogether.
But on Tuesday, he delivered a powerful and emotional comeback, championing free speech and taking jabs at Trump and at these attempting to censor his present.
“This show is not important,” Kimmel informed viewers. “What’s important is that we live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”
He additionally addressed the remarks that led ABC to droop his present, saying it was not his “intention to make light of the murder of a young man.”
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” airs weeknights on ABC at 11:35 PM ET.