{"id":16488,"date":"2025-12-10T09:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jimmy-kimmel-signs-one-year-contract-extension-with-abc\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:20:49","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-signs-one-year-contract-extension-with-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jimmy-kimmel-signs-one-year-contract-extension-with-abc\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel signs one-year contract extension with ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/david-bauder\">             <picture data-crop=\"60x60\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\"><source width=\"60\" height=\"60\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dave Bauder stands for a portrait at the New York headquarters of The Associated Press on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. (AP Photo\/Patrick Sison)\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/b083ae6\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1024x1024+0+0\/resize\/60x60!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fdb%2F4c%2Fc9b0fa314f568ccd75afdd603f62%2Fbauder-david.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1765234511000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>                                    <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                                                            <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump won&rsquo;t be <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-abc-jimmy-kimmel-mary-bruce-fa73b610c66dec5b1b947164d59bf2c6\">getting his wish.<\/a><\/span>  ABC said Monday it has signed <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/jimmy-kimmel\">late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel<\/a><\/span>  to a one-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel&rsquo;s previous, multiyear contract had been set to expire next May, so the extension will keep him on the air until at least May 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel&rsquo;s future looked questionable in September, when ABC <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jimmy-kimmel-show-suspended-charlie-kirk-a2bfa904429c318fe52e7d3493c6883d\">suspended &ldquo;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&rdquo;<\/a><\/span>  for remarks made following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Following a public outcry, ABC lifted the suspension, and Kimmel <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jimmy-kimmel-show-suspended-charlie-kirk-ae43c600bd0f2a4c7d3c12077e91b211\">returned to the air<\/a><\/span>  with much stronger ratings than he had before.<\/p>\n<p>He continued his relentless joking at the president&rsquo;s expense, leading Trump to urge the network to &ldquo;get the bum off the air&rdquo; in a social media post last month. The post followed Kimmel&rsquo;s nearly 10-minute monologue on Trump and the Jeffrey Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel was even on Trump&rsquo;s mind Sunday as the president <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kennedy-center-honors-trump-stallone-kiss-gaynor-1af0fffa8f79aab38f5b57297519730d\">hosted the Kennedy Center Honors<\/a><\/span>  in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve watched some of the people that host,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve watched some of the people that host. Jimmy Kimmel was horrible, and some of these people, if I can&rsquo;t beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don&rsquo;t think I should be president.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<div data-module data-module-trackunsubscribe data-align-center>                <bsp-list-loadmore data-module data-gtm-region=\"Hub peek - default for articles - (can be moved in article, but don't change source)\" data-gtm-topic=\"No Value\" data-hide-dates=\"true\" data-parsely-title=\"Related Stories\" data-parsely-enabled=\"true\" data-is-hub-peek data-gtm-modulestyle=\"List B\">            <a id=\"more-section-display-name\"><\/a>            <\/p>\n<div data-animate=\"fromBottom\" data-gtm-region=\"Kimmel&rsquo;s future hangs in balance after ABC suspends his late-night show over Charlie Kirk comments\" data-gtm-topic=\"No Value\" data-align-top data-mobile-alt-layout=\"true\" data-hide-dates=\"true\" data-posted-date-timestamp=\"1758208488000\" data-updated-date-timestamp=\"1758227657000\" data-list-loadmore-items><a aria-label=\"Kimmel&rsquo;s future hangs in balance after ABC suspends his late-night show over Charlie Kirk comments\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jimmy-kimmel-show-suspended-charlie-kirk-2c79d56fa53779014f2bb2ed9e47da1f\">             <picture data-crop=\"imgEn-medium-3x2\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><source media=\"(min-width: 600px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\"><source media=\"(min-width: 600px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\"><source width=\"599\" height=\"399\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Demonstrators picket in response to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show outside of Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jae C. Hong)\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/3acbef4\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x3997+0+2\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fcb%2F25%2F3c162c2535c8147b2d1d89f9fdca%2F60e229cae7ca4cdfbf2ce2f351c63bdf\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/div>\n<p>    <\/bsp-list-loadmore>    <\/div>\n<p>Kimmel has hosted the Oscars four times, but he&rsquo;s never hosted the Kennedy Center show.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, Kimmel was needling Trump on the president&rsquo;s approval ratings. &ldquo;There are gas stations on Yelp with higher approval ratings than Trump right now,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel will be staying longer than late-night colleague Stephen Colbert at CBS. The network announced this summer it was ending Colbert&rsquo;s show next May for economic reasons, even though it is the top-rated network show in late-night television.<\/p>\n<p>ABC has aired Kimmel&rsquo;s late-night show since 2003, during a time of upheaval in the industry. Like much of broadcast television, late-night ratings are down. Viewers increasingly turn to watching monologues online the day after they appear.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Kimmel&rsquo;s recent renewals have been multiyear extensions. There was no immediate word on whose choice it was to extend his current contract by one year.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Carter, author of &ldquo;The Late Shift&rdquo; and veteran chronicler of late-night TV, cautioned against reading too much into the length of the extension. Kimmel, at age 58, knows he&rsquo;s getting close to the end of the line, Carter said, but when he leaves, he doesn&rsquo;t want it to appear under pressure from Trump or anyone.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He wants to make sure that it&rsquo;s on his terms,&rdquo; Carter said.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel has become one of the leading voices resisting Trump. &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s important for him and for ABC that they are standing up for him,&rdquo; Carter said.<\/p>\n<p>Following Kirk&rsquo;s killing, Kimmel was criticized for saying that &ldquo;the MAGA gang&rdquo; was &ldquo;desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.&rdquo; The Nexstar and Sinclair television ownership groups said it would take Kimmel off the air, leading to ABC&rsquo;s suspension. <\/p>\n<p>When he returned to the air, Kimmel did not apologize for his remarks, but he said he did not intend to blame any specific group for Kirk&rsquo;s assassination. He said &ldquo;it was never my intention to make the light of the murder of a young man.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>David Bauder writes about the intersection of media and entertainment for the AP. Follow him at <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dbauder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/x.com\/dbauder<\/a><\/span>  and <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/dbauder.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/dbauder.bsky.social<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jimmy-kimmel-abc-extension-8df182f90f7d068743b8c123f9ed50c5\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] President Donald Trump won&rsquo;t be getting his wish. ABC said Monday it has signed late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel to a one-year contract extension. Kimmel&rsquo;s previous, multiyear contract had been set to expire next May, so the extension will keep him on the air until at least May 2027. 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