Remember when "late night wars" referred to the competition between late night hosts rather than attempts by the government's and its political allies' war against late night show?

Last edited by Hansa (September 17, 2025 7:14 pm)

Regardless of whether or not the suspension is temporary I think the chances of Kimmel's contract being renewed after it ends next year just went down the toilet.

Last edited by Hansa (September 17, 2025 7:10 pm)

RadioActive wrote:

Much as I hate to reintroduce this topic, it's pretty important - ABC has pulled episodes of Jimmy Kimmel for the foreseeable future, after the host's comments about the assassination of the right wing advocate. It came after one of its biggest affiliate groups took offence to the statements. 

ABC will only say the suspension is "indefinite" and has not, as of this posting, fired Kimmel or cancelled his show. It's not clear what they may be putting in his timeslot instead.

ABC Pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Indefinitely After Host’s Charlie Kirk Comments

Probably too expensive to do that vs. just replacing him with someone more "friendly" to the administration, and paying out the contract.

Last edited by claireville_listening_stn (September 17, 2025 7:13 pm)

They're probably negotiating his exit as we speak.

The Trump-appointed FCC chair is also threatening to pull the licences of ABC affiliates over Kimmel.

Last edited by Hansa (September 17, 2025 7:24 pm)

Brad wrote:

I'm so glad I don't live in that shithole USA.

Amen to that. 

I believe this is the controversial monologue from Monday.

Well it looks like current third place finisher Fallon will be #1 next season.

From the ABC website: 
 
Wednesday night's scheduled guests: 

Wanda Sykes ("Wanda Sykes: Please & Thank You" stand-up comedy tour); Jay Shetty; Cooking Demonstration by Chef Christian Petroni ("Parm to Table")

I'm frankly surprised they haven't taken down the show page site yet.

The Chief Censor reacts to tonight's developments:

“Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday. “Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!! President DJT”

For everybody's sanity, please stop reposting the POTUS' social media posts. If we wanted to see/hear what he is saying, we would go to his socials. RA, remove ALL of DJT's quotes etc. from this board NOW. IMMEDIATELY. FOREVER. I am sick and tired of all of you just parroting Dumb Fuck Donnie's every word - YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO THIS AT ALL!!!! There are MILLIONS of other places where we could go if we wanted to know what that malignant narcissistic piece of shit said at any given moment. THIS BOARD SHOULD NOT BE ONE OF THEM!!!!

Last edited by Forward Power (September 17, 2025 9:25 pm)

This may explain why the cancellation happened:
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/nexstar-tegna-merger-tv-deal-ceo-trump-b2810500.html

Nexstar, the largest owner of local television stations in the United States, announced Tuesday that it would be acquiring rival Tegna in a $6.2 billion mega-deal that would reshape the landscape of local media as the Trump administration seems poised to loosen regulatory limits.

In fact, seemingly alluding to the presumption that Donald Trump’s handpicked Federal Communications Commission chief Brendan Carr would approve the deal despite current restrictions in place, Nexstar CEO Perry Sook heaped praise on the administration in his company’s announcement of the deal.

They obviously want this merger deal to happen very badly and need the Trump administration's approval.
It's  an exact repeat of CBS and Colbert and the Skydance merger all over again.




 

RadioAaron wrote:

Hansa wrote:

Well it looks like current third place finisher Fallon will be #1 next season.

Fallon needs to quit in solidarity.
 

Fallon needs to be hauled off to El Salvador RIGHT NOW AND TORTURED FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!

Last edited by Forward Power (September 17, 2025 10:03 pm)

It'll never happen but imagine an all-star Hollywood Reporter or Variety very large roundtable featuring Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Dave Letterman, maybe add Marc Maron, Sarah Silverman, John Cleese and Eric Idle, Christopher Guest, Jaime Lee Curtis, Ricky Gervais, Emma Thompson and a few other writers, actors, comedians discussing the teutonic changes in the entertainment industry and broadcasting...  Holy moly it'd be darn interesting.

He said something a lot more "offensive", "insensitive" and downright heinous about unvaccinated people back in 2021 and no disciplinary action and considerably less controversy-per-capita resulted from that. I don't think I agree with what he said, but this strikes me as something that they may fear could run afoul of advertisers, which is a great way for anybody in the industry to lose their jobs and even their careers, especially in today's day & age of hyper-consolidation and resultingly higher-than-ever stakes.

In the end, this was probably going to happen anyway, one way or another at one point or another. The economy of traditional media that supported late night broadcast network TV in generations past no longer exists, and Stephen Colbert's show was just the first major casualty. I'm not saying that any of this is good, I actually like Jay Leno, but it's just the way it is these days.

RadioActive wrote:

I wonder if both Colbert & Kimmel will one day wind up with their own YouTube shows, where they will hopefully be able to do and say whatever they want. That seems to be where shows like this are heading, with younger demos already watching the "highlights" the next day. 

That's pretty much the future, and where many of the most popular podcasters and digital content creators already are.