It’s good news for all Jimmy Kimmel’s fans. The ABC has decided to lift the suspension imposed on its show Jimmy Kimmel Live on 17th September. It was done after a petition containing the signatures of 400 Hollywood celebrities, including Pedro Pascal, Jason Bateman, Jake Gyllenhaal,Tom Hanks, Zoey Mara, Natalie Portman, Regina King and Jennifer Aniston was filed to ALCU. This letter was drafted by the ALCU(American Civil Liberties Union).

The letter has the content that the endeavour to force artists and others to change their spoken words and react to their speech defies the basic right of Americans to live in a free country. The letter also asks all Americans to protect their freedom of speech. Kimmel had to follow a suspension after his speech on Charlie Kirk’s did not go down too well with President Trump. After listening to the speech, the chairman of the FCC, Brendan Carr had talked of retaliation against the broadcast channels, including Sinclair and Nexstar. These channels immediately refused to broadcast the show, due to which ABC Ltd had to take the show off the air.

Jimmy Kimmel Live show was aired on 23rd September.

However, although ABC Ltd has resumed the show, Nexstar and Sinclair have still refused to air it. It will affect the showing of the show on 70 stations. Both these broadcast networks together own almost 30% of the 250 broadcast stations of content creator ABC Ltd in America. People at these stations could watch the show’s highlights on YouTube. When the show started, Jimmy Kimmel apologized for his speech on Charlie Kirk’s murder. He said that it was never his objective to hurt anybody through his monologue on the homicide of Charlie Kirk. He said that the murder was the action of a disturbed person. He commented that the pressure to take his show off the air by the FCC was quite un-American. Trump is a Republican, but Republican senators like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul were against this action. Jimmy Kimmel also thanked them on September 23rd because they had said that the FCC should not interfere with or control political speech.