Jimmy Kimmel extends ABC contract through 2027

After an antithetic twelvemonth successful his late-night tenure, Jimmy Kimmel is officially sticking astir for a small portion longer.

The late-night big signed a one-year declaration hold with ABC and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” volition proceed done May 2027. Kimmel’s erstwhile declaration was acceptable to extremity successful May 2026, astatine the extremity of the 2025-2026 tv season.

The extension, archetypal reported by Bloomberg, comes a fewer months aft the web and its genitor company, Walt Disney Co., suspended Kimmel pursuing crisp backlash implicit comments helium made astir blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk’s death. Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group, owners of ABC affiliates, said they would not aerial the bid aft Kimmel’s comments hours earlier the indefinite suspension was announced.

Kimmel returned to the aerial aft a astir weeklong suspension, delivering an affectional monologue successful which helium ardently defended escaped speech. He did not explicitly apologize for his comments, which Sinclair said was a information that had to beryllium met earlier it would aerial the amusement again, but some Nexstar and Sinclair resumed airing the amusement soon aft Kimmel returned.

During his little clip disconnected the air, Kimmel recovered himself astatine the halfway of a fiery civilization war. Talk amusement hosts, actors, comedians, writers and adjacent the erstwhile caput of Disney condemned ABC’s determination to intermission production, but a question of critics celebrated Kimmel’s suspension, including President Trump and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, who had publically urged ABC to enactment connected Kimmel’s comments.

The late-night scenery has been the taxable of overmuch sermon astir escaped code since CBS announced successful July that it would not beryllium renewing the storied web franchise “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” The decision, the institution said, was owed to fiscal reasons and not — arsenic galore person speculated — due to the fact that of Colbert’s disapproval of a colony betwixt the Trump medication and Paramount, the genitor institution of CBS, implicit a “60 Minutes” interrogation with then-Vice President Kamala Harris successful 2024.

Kimmel’s erstwhile declaration hold successful 2022 was bully for 3 years, and it came astatine a clip of speculation implicit whether he’d proceed connected with the show.

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” airs weeknights astatine 11:35/10:35 Central.