So @jimmykimmel.com's first words back tonight--"As I was saying..."-- were an homage to Tonight Show host Jack Paar, who used those words when he returned after walking out on his show in a censorship dispute with NBC. From 65 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrhQ...

Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue has been up on YouTube for 45 minutes and it’s approaching 700K views. I wonder what that number will be by tomorrow morning.

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“A couple of cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and I have to figure out how to put Autism in them.” - new FCC chair Robert De Niro #JimmyKimmel

The new chairman of the FCC makes his debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Kimmel monologue was 18 minutes of extraordinary, raw television that will be hated by the people who wanted him off the air for good. Trump and Brendan Carr lost this one as badly as it's possible to lose.

“Let’s stop letting these politicians tell us what they want and tell them what we want.” #JimmyKimmel

Jimmy Kimmel accuses Trump of squeezing Stephen Colbert out at CBS and asks that his audience get “10 times as loud” if POTUS goes after Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.

Jimmy Kimmel pulls required reading from the Walt Disney Company out of his chest pocket. That required reading? Instructions on how to reactivate your Disney+ and Hulu accounts.

“He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now.” #JimmyKimmel

“If Ted Cruz can’t speak freely, he can’t cast spells on the Smurfs.” #JimmyKimmel

“I’m not sure who’s had a weirder 48 hours: me or the CEO of Tylenol.” #JimmyKimmel

“Anyway, as I was saying before I was interrupted…” #JimmyKimmel

Courtesy of Zach Braff’s Instagram story. Production starts soon. #Scrubs

#911onABC is sending Athena to space. Because sure, why not.

You know when you come across something in the grocery store and you know you shouldn’t buy it but you do it anyway? Welp.

There may be reasons why ABC can’t stream Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Disney+ or Hulu for viewers affected by Nexstar/Sinclair preemptions. But the tech is there: DWTS goes live every Tuesday on Disney+, while Kimmel is pre-taped.

Spoiler Alert: The Only Murders in the Building co-creator talks with TVLine about Episode 5's death and the future of both the building and the show.

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Stephen Colbert’s response to Disney reinstating Jimmy Kimmel: “Once again, I am the only martyr in late night.”

If you missed last night’s Last Week Tonight, you missed John Oliver’s priceless reaction to the potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount Skydance. Just when he thought he’d broken in a new business daddy… 🏔️

We are so lucky that NBC gave this show a piece of prime time real estate for four seasons. Not five. Just four.

Did Tylenol impact his ability to form coherent sentences?

Jimmy Kimmel is back.

John Oliver to Bob Iger: “History will remember the cowards.” 👀

A great read by @mattmitovich.bsky.social:

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Democrats now have a huge opening to go on the offensive. Between the RFK vaccine disaster, the Homan bribe, Trump's nakedly corrupt DM to Bondi, and Brendan Carr breaking the law, they should turn on the firehose. As should the press. Doomers will be blocked. TY for your attention to this matter.

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“Carr, fully aware of Trump’s stated desire that Kimmel should be the ‘next’ network late-night host to lose his show, grabbed on to the tiniest thread of grievance and spun it into a direct assault on Kimmel, ABC and the First Amendment.” Yes. Thank you for saying this. Yes.

TCA condemns ABC and Disney’s capitulation to the government’s demands of censorship.

To mark the 20th anniversary, #HIMYM co-creator Craig Thomas reflects on the show’s origin story, all the foreshadowing across its nine-season run — and, yes, the finale. In doing so, he revisits a deleted Ted-and-Robin scene — one that would shape Cobie Smulders’ return in How I Met Your Father.

This is very good.

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NEW: As the Kimmel crisis drags on, I dug into what just happened the last 24 hours, the "drunk on power" FCC chief imposing his MAGA will on networks, how it's all been handled by Disney-- and the damage Bob Iger risks doing to his legacy. Up now at @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/jimm...

Conan O'Brien to his fellow late-night hosts who are being obnoxiously persecuted by cowardly network executives.

The New Yorker has just released next week's cover. "Remote Control," by Barry Blitt, captures "Donald Trump's unprecedented series of attacks on the media, destruction of federal programs, and abuses of executive power that have ushered in a new era of political vengeance."

20 years since the #HIMYM pilot. 5 years until Future Ted sits his kids down. I caught up w/ @himymcraig.bsky.social to talk about the show’s origins — and yes, the finale. Not the same questions he’s answered for years, but a deeper dive I hope fans will appreciate. Read it now at @tvline.com:

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Thanks for a lovely chat, Ryan, this was a great way to mark 20 years!

20 years since the #HIMYM pilot. 5 years until Future Ted sits his kids down. I caught up w/ @himymcraig.bsky.social to talk about the show’s origins — and yes, the finale. Not the same questions he’s answered for years, but a deeper dive I hope fans will appreciate. Read it now at @tvline.com:

Kimmel is currently under contract until some time in 2026. Even if they lift the suspension, how does he just go back and keep doing the same show he did before?

Time to shut out the world and decompress with my favorite soap opera:

Strike Force Five needs to hold an emergency meeting. But maybe disinvite the spinless one and replace him with Jon Stewart...?

This is the legacy moment for Disney CEO Robert Iger, a man who once toyed with a Presidential run as a Democrat. You stand up for unpopular free speech or you stand against all free speech. There's no middle.

I guess they're fine with cancel culture now.

Was scrolling by quickly and legit thought this was Judith Light. So I guess we know which role she'll play in the eventual miniseries about this moment in American history.

Andy Richter just smacked his own behind during a Dancing With the Stars routine. Don't tell me Peak TV is dead.

I wrote about the firing of Alan Sepinwall, which is awful. And I tied it into what's happening all over in the media, why it's scary & what we can do to help. I used my words, but it's definitely Hulk Mo dialed up to 11, if that's a thing you would like to experience: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...