ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

Sounds like it's time for Jimmy to retire... there's no point in fighting this anymore and I'm sure his family is ready for him to quit anyway.

We've sure come a long way from The Man Show.

Neoliberal entertainment is less about repeating what the government wants to say, and more about repeating what other people want to hear.

Both have their issues. You're just yelling into the wind if you think this will keep politics off late-night TV.

The right is simply good at PR. People forget that they invented cancel culture. Dixie Chicks anyone?

Keep in mind that Kimmel has been hinting about retiring for a couple years now, his contract was up in the air, the "late night television show" category is evaporating (if there's still even a Tonight Show in 10 years, it'll be purely for nostalgia), and this sends Kimmel out in a blaze of glory.

I think it's too easy to sort of anthropomorphize these kinds of conflicts --- Kimmel's show has a large staff, and he's responsible for their livelihoods --- but it wouldn't be totally out of the question that Kimmel steered right into this.

There's nothing new about this, though: ABC also took Bill Maher off the air, 20 years ago, almost identical circumstances. Maher wound up at HBO. Kimmel will wind up on a podcast, and, like Conan, probably gain in relevance.

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I think some people here might be too young to immediately get the Maher reference, but the point there was: he was forced off the air for political reasons as well.

Is there some way the two sides could reliably arrive at a truce on the issue of cancellation?