ABC has pulled late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off air indefinitely over comments he made about the shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely,” a spokesperson for the Disney-owned network said in a statement to the BBC.
On Monday, Kimmel said on air that Trump’s allies were “doing everything they can to score political points from” Kirk’s death.
On Tuesday, a 22-year-old suspect appeared in court charged with aggravated murder over last Wednesday’s shooting of Kirk.
The announcement came after one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the US, Nexstar Media, said it would not air Jimmy Kimmel Live! “for the foreseeable future, beginning with tonight’s show”.
Nexstar said on Wednesday that the comedian’s remarks about Kirk “are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse”.