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Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday after his show was suspended following comments he made about the death of Charlie Kirk, Disney has said in a statement released in the last few moments.

"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," the statement says.

"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."

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[–] hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol, and now we get to watch everybody buy their memberships again and the company will move forward like nothing ever happened.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean at the very least, hopefully they (and others Trump inevitably goes after) won't be so willing to cave to authoritarian demands without a fight.

That's kind of the way this all works. If even the people that could definitely afford to fight this in court signal they're willing to just comply, then there's no hope for everyone else.

I think John Oliver put it best when he said the response should have been, and should always be going forward "Fuck you, make me."

[–] hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, so why wouldn't they (and others trump goes after) be willing to cave without a fight?

We just watched them cave immediately without a fight, and then revert their decision after having "thoughtful conversations" behind the scenes that we're not privy to.

We haven't seen any victory, any pushback against this trampling of free speech, any principled disagreement. We've seen an immediate kowtowing.

I don't know what those conversations behind the scenes entailed. I don't know the future. But I'm going to predict the show that gets returned to air will be (even more) neutered. They won't upset the administration again.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We'll see what he does when he returned, but Trump is definitely pissy he didn't get his way.

They demanded Kimmel be forced to apologize and I think pay money to the Charlie Kirk foundation. He did neither but for some reason his cancellation lasted less than a week.

They have the money and lawyers to fight this, they just didn't want the hassle. Suddenly when it looked like it would be cutting into their profits they found the motivation to fight back.

We also haven't heard from Carr as far as I know. This could still end up in court unless Carr is willing to just back down.