The late night TV landscape was majorly shaken up earlier this year with the shocking cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and now ABC's Jimmy Kimmel is facing his show being pulled from the air. After media group Nexstar decided not to air Jimmy Kimmel Live! on any of the 200 television stations the company owns across the United States, ABC confirmed that the show is being suspended indefinitely. The news came just hours before a new episode was set to air, with one guest already hyping their appearance on the show.
ABC confirmed via a spokesperson that "Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be preempted indefinitely" to Deadline on September 17, just past 3:30 p.m. ET with the next new episode already scheduled for the usual broadcast time of 11:50 p.m. ET. The decision came down shortly after Nexstar announced that its owned and partner stations affiliated with ABC Network Television would "preempt" Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the "foreseeable future beginning with tonight's show."
