Sarah McLachlan to play on Jimmy Kimmel Live! As the show returns to certain stations

ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! should return to the air on Tuesday, after a suspension almost a week that sparked a national discussion on freedom of expression, the Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan announced as a surprise guest.

But two groups of ABC affiliates who denounced the end-of-evening talk show host last week said they would not bring Kimmel’s return.

Nexstar Media Group – which operates 32 ABC affiliation stations in the United States – said it would continue to pre -empt the show “, pending insurance that all parties have committed to promoting an environment of respect and constructive dialogue on the markets we serve”.

Sinclair Broadcast Group – The largest ABC affiliation operator in the country – also said that he would prevent Kimmel from his stations.

The two companies collectively control a quarter of ABC affiliates in the United States. CityTV, which belongs to Rogers Communications and holds the Canadian rights of the Kimmel program, confirmed to CBC News that they will resume the broadcast on Tuesday evening.

Sarah McLachlan to play

Actor Glen Powell was originally the only celebrity that was to appear in Kimmel’s broadcast, but Sarah McLachlan posted on Instagram on Tuesday that she would join the show.

Earlier, McLachlan canceled a performance during the first American for her documentary Lilith Fair: Build a mysterywhich was published on Disney + on September 21, “in support of freedom of expression”. Disney is the parent company of ABC.

“It is a gift for all of us to see (this documentary), but also I am faced with being here this evening and around what it is necessary to say the current situation that we are all confronted with,” McLachlan told the Ford Theater of Los Angeles on weekends.

She referred to “the insidious erosion of women’s rights, trans and queer rights, the muzzle of freedom of expression”.

The publicists of the documentary distributed by Hulu and the musician confirmed that she was also reserved as an interview in the Kimmel show this evening.

McLachlan representatives noted that she had to appear in the Kimmel show to promote her new album, Better brokenBefore the host was taken from the air.

Also on Tuesday, Kimmel made his first comments on social networks since his program was ahead of.

On Instagram, he shared a photograph of himself with the writer, producer and activist Norman Lear. In tribute to Everything in the family-Creator, who died in 2023, Kimmel called him “not only a giant in the world of television, but a great man who was one of the most important and most impressive people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.”

Lear was frank against the Federal Commission Commission (FCC), a government agency responsible for regulating radio, television and internet content. Lear said that the adoption by the “family visualization time” agency – a window designated by the FCC in which programming must suit all age groups – was “deception” and a form of censorship.

According to Smithsonian magazine, Lear was part of the “list of enemies” of former American president Richard Nixon, whose White House lawyer said that the White House advisor said “using the federal machines available to screw our political enemies”.

When Trump won his second term, Kimmel joked saying that he was on the president’s “list of enemies”.

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ABC suspended Kimmel indefinitely after comments he made in a monologue last week, when Kimmel said that the United States had struck “new stockings during the weekend with the gang Maga trying desperately to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them and to do everything they can to suspend political points”.

Kimmel made similar declarations in his follow -up show the following night.

The next day, the president of the FCC, Brendan Carr, appeared in the program of the Conservative Benny Johnson, describing Kimmel’s words as “seemingly inducing the American public” on the political affiliations of the alleged shooter.

“We can do it the simplest way or the hard way,” said Carr on the podcast, suggesting that FCC has “remedies they (they) can look at”, even as market pressures that could lead to Kimmel shooting.

“These companies can find ways to change driving to act, frankly, on Kimmel. Or, you know, there will be additional work for the FCC to come.”

Shortly after, Nexstar said they would replace Jimmy Kimmel Live! with other programs. Sinclair then declared that they would do the same in a statement thanking Carr, before Abc announced that they were fully pre-imbued the Kimmel show.

This was followed by the messages from American president Donald Trump on Truth Social, saying that this decision was “excellent news for America”.

Debates around freedom of expression

Some have qualified Carr’s participation to overcome the government. American senator Elizabeth Warren told CNN on Thursday that “we know that there was a federal interference” given the appearance of Carr on the Podcast of Johnson. Earlier, she went to X to compare ABC before Kimmel’s program with Paramount announcing Stephen Colbert – a decision that they took shortly after Colbert criticized Paramount for having settled a defamation case with Trump.

Paramount said they had taken precedence over purely financial reasons, but were also late for a merger with the Skydance of the Company – a movement that the FCC could have blocked.

Warren opened an investigation in May to find out if Paramount joined corruption with the Trump administration to conclude the agreement. Carr and Paramount denied that the two problems were linked.

Nexstar is looking for a merger with the owner of the TEGNA station, which would also require the approval of the FCC.

“First Colbert, now Kimmel,” wrote Warren on Tuesday. “Last -minute colonies, secret side agreements, mergers of several billion dollars while waiting for Donald Trump’s approval.”

In reference to Kimmel, the Democrats of the Senate published a statement claiming that Carr “armed” the FCC “to act as a traveling press censur, targeting broadcasters according to their political commentary”.

During an appearance in New York on Monday, Carr denied that the FCC had an involvement in ABC by removing the show, citing rather bad notes as the reason why Kimmel “is in the situation in which he finds himself.”