Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday after his show was suspended following comments he made about the death of Charlie Kirk, Disney has said in a statement released in the last few moments.
“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” the statement says.
“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”
Kimmel didn’t even talk about Kirk’s death outside of stating that the right is trying their best to milk it as much as possible which is saying nothing about Kirk. He never commented on Kirk as a person, at least not as far as I know of.
Came here to say this. Media’s framing language matters. He made a comment about Trump. His show was suspended under pressure from the FCC not because he made irresponsible comments about Kirk, but because he made the pissy man-baby cry.
It’s worse, he showed that taco don’t care about Kirk at all and just uses him for political goals.
Frankly, his behavior demonstrates that he wouldn’t have any hangups ordering the kill himself.
Exactly. This was a non-apology and Kimmel wasn’t the one who needed talking to, I hope he doesn’t tone down his monologues one iota.
Keep the boycott on.
He actually put out a message before this saying that it was a horrible thing that happened and he and his family were sending their deepest sympathies to the Kirk family.
Keep. On. Boycotting.
They’re are just in PR damage control, they have not fired a single person or told Sinclair/Nextstar to fire those who actively voice support for fascism.
Sinclair is the one that needs to hurt at the moment since they refuse to run the show, let sponsors know you’re unhappy
Kimmel didn’t make any “Charlie Kirk comments”
He made fun of Trump for not giving a shit about Kirk’s death because he couldn’t get over his 8 year old equivalent impulse control to start bragging about the monstrosity they built on top of the Rose Garden at the White House.
Too late, fuckers. Subscription is staying cancelled and I’m not coming back.
Jimmy Kimmel Live posts their monologue to YouTube every night, so you can still enjoy it.
Don’t forget your best friend uBlock Origin (or ReVanced or Tubular or whatever other YT ad blocker you like) when you watch, just to make sure they don’t even get ad revenue from you
Alternate headline: “Disney losing money, back pedaling”
Nice try, I will never return to paying for Disney+ though.
There’s not even an apology anywhere to be seen. Just a spineless attempt to have it all go away.
Likewise. I didn’t get around to watching the second Andor season yet but, oh well 🤷 🚢🏴☠️
Don yer eyepatch mehearty. Yarrrrr.
Trying to rewrite history huh - they suspended the show because Kimmel criticised Trump, and the FCC threatened ABC/DIsney. Never forget.
Well, now let’s see what Jimmy Kimmel does. Will he come back toning down his rhetoric or will he start by thoroughly criticizing Kirk and Disney right as he gets back. I don’t think there really is a third option. If he decide to not address this, he will always weigh the consequences of saying something before saying it (even subconsciously). And in that case, he is not worth watching.
I don’t think there really is a third option. If he decide to not address this
He could intentionally avoid mentioning it while an elephant slowly wanders around behind him.
You could write for the show.
To be fair, I stole the idea from Top Gear’s final show.
That’s a bummer for them, Ive already canceled my account and ordered a nice NAS setup and Plex.
Plex bad. Jellyfin good.
Can it be used with FreeBSD?
It’s been a while since I meddled with FreeBSD. It shouldn’t be hard - it’s just a web stack with some command line ffmpeg. I think the only thing that might be a challenge is hardware encoding.
There are sweet docker images, but I guess they might require virtualization on FreeBSD.
You should be able to find instructions. I had it in a jail in my truenas before I went scale.
Where do you plan to source your media from now?
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This isn’t reddit, no one here is going to ban you for recommending a fucking website, just tell me what torrent site everyone is using so I can try and sign up with it during an open-season event and seed all day everyday
You know I’m generally helpful in guiding others to do things, sadly the way you responded to that comment I’ll have to take a pass. Why would you assume anything other than they’re going to pirate and haven’t gotten further than that yet.
Perhaps someone less petty can guide you or you can do what I did and figure it out using the internet.
That said I’ll give you two words to begin. Docker. Prowlarr.
I don’t care if you want to gatekeep your torrent sites for only people who conform to your specified kind of corporate nice-speak.
I refuse to allow a fucking billionaire, or an emotionally fragile person who doesn’t like reading naughty words on the internet to tell me how to talk.
I’m justifying my response to a useless emoji, because apparently down votes here are only a “I disagree” button rather than its intended purpose.
Man, some people will do anything rather than accept that their behavior can have justified social consequences.
Fuck off pal. I can tell you if you spoke to me like this in person you get a smack in the face.
Basic civility isn’t corporate nice speak you silly cunt.
I’m asking genuinely - are you doing alright? I can’t promise I can be helpful, but if you need someone to talk to I would be willing to try.
Every instance have their own ToS, each of them with their own threshold of tolerance with having to deal with potential piracy inquiry on their server.
I have no idea what you’re talking about, we all pay full price.
oh i bet you’re fun at parties. 🙄
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Blah blah we want your money blah blah.
Exactly
Fuck em, arrr
Money, that’s our only way of influence.
Yes, this really isn’t difficult, or shouldn’t be, but Americans are incredibly addicted to convenience. I’ve been saying for years now that we don’t even need a general strike of workers not working, people simply need to stop being good little consumers for a while, only buy the essentials when necessary, cancel all extraneous services, stop using the fascists’ platforms. In a consumer economy, consumers hold the cards, but unfortunately we’ve been trained well and think we cannot live without 37 different streaming services and food and whatever else you want delivered to your door, and then need to post about it all on TwitFaceAgram after a post about corporate 'Merica run amok.
A large enough percentage of the population buying only necessities local goods would get Trump ousted.
I’ve been doing this since the Inauguration.
Let’s go ahead & start calling & boycotting all of NexStar and Sinclair’s advertisers since they decided they aren’t going to have Kimmel back.
https://www.distractify.com/p/how-to-boycott-sinclair-broadcast-group
“OK, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel,” he wrote on Facebook. “The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact? See if you have a Sinclair or Nexstar station in your area. 2. Watch the local newscast tonight or sometime this week. 3. Note the companies that bought TV adverts. 4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company.”
“Trust me. I worked in TV for 45 years. Nothing you do will have greater impact. Nothing,” he continued. “This is a much more effective tool than cancelling Disney. We did cancel Disney but calling Joe’s Jeep dealership who is buying adds on the local Nexstar station will have a BIG impact. Joe doesn’t need that grief. He will find another station to buy adverts on.”
Also, they are fascists & deserve to be destroyed anyhow.
Holy shit boycotting works?
if it happens yes, the problem with boycotting is most people online who say they will boycott something usually don’t, or they weren’t using it in the first place.
this is especially true for games
It’s been sixteen fucking years.
it’s just a perfect picture. but this regularly happens in games. gAmErS are the worst bunch in boycotts because most of them don’t even have the discipline to wait for a fucking game to release let alone not play it at all. they just either “boycott” games they were never interested in at all in the first place or they just say it online for fake internet points and play the game anyway.
Isn’t that the reason Target is a fucking metronome on social issues?
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I wrote a very angry letter, letting them know that I was switching my news source, cancelling Hulu, and in the future, I would pirate their content, and watch it without commercials.
That’s three revenue-sucking situations that every network hates, and it worked, they caved.
I also told them that I expect them to hold the line on free speech, and if Trump threatens to remove their FCC license, dare him to do it. That FCC license gives them a responsibility to this nation. Folding like they tried to do is unacceptable.
So you saved jimmy’s show?
Yep, single-handedly.
No, of course not. But ALL corporations understand that one person that takes the time to write a coherent, logical letter, and doesn’t threaten sexual violence against their daughters and elderly relatives, represent, and are speaking for, a very large number of people who are just sitting at home, pissed off and talking to their families.
Get enough of those letters, and the data analysis people in Marketing start getting extremely nervous. That’s what happened here. In fact, the walls crumbled so quickly, that they must have received an overwhelming amount of angry communications.
Also like why does the FCC license even matter anymore? For the three people left still watching ABC over the air?
Sept 17th.
Nexstar and Sinclair television station owners condem Kimmel’s statements. They planned to preempt his show replacing it with other programming.
Nexstar ABC Affiliates To Preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Indefinitely Beginning Tonight
ABC decides to suspend Kimmel’s show indefinitely due to the backlash.
Here is the question. If ABC/Disney reinstate his show, will Nexstar or Sinclair follow through on their promise to preempt his show when it airs effectively killing any ad revenue?
Edit addendum: Sinclair Will Not Air ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Upon ABC Return Tuesday
That’s gonna make it hard to sell ad space on the next upfronts.
Curious to find out! Probably back channel talks happening now
Yeah, they probably use this opportunity to get a better deal from ABC, while pretending to be upset about Kimmel
I think we will confirm how little revenue is generated by broadcast TV.
