However, ABC has denied the reports, calling them speculation.
Reports have emerged that ” Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will end after this season, closing out a 24-year run.
News on September 8. Kimmel’s return attracted 6.26 million viewers, making it the show’s biggest regularly scheduled audience in more than a decade, according to TMZ. Kimmel has been fronting the show since 2003, making him one of the longest-running network late-night hosts. Back in 2023, Kimmel had spoken about wanting to retire.
ABC has denied that the show has been cancelled. “Any reports about the future of the show at this point are purely speculative.
“This information is inaccurate,” an ABC Entertainment spokesperson told E! Insiders told Page Six that the possible end of Kimmel’s show is unlikely to be linked to his tense relationship with the Trump administration. He then returned six days later after what Disney called “thoughtful conversations” with the host. “As you know, I was very intent on retiring right around the time where the strike started,” Kimmel, 58, said on the Strike Force Five podcast . “And now I realize, ‘Oh yeah, it’s kinda nice to work.'” Joking about going back and forth on the decision, he said, “I’m Tom Brady without any rings or any fingers.”
