Jimmy Kimmel’s return to late-night television after a brief suspension drew 6.26 million total viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings, making it the show’s highest-performing regularly scheduled episode in over a decade.

The robust ratings are remarkable partly because a typical episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” attracts roughly 1.6 million viewers.

Disney, which owns ABC, highlighted that the latest episode did not air in 23% of American households. That’s because Nexstar and Sinclair, two major owners of ABC broadcast affiliates, continue to refuse to run the show following Kimmel’s remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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    1 day ago

    This is a perfect reason why your lawyer tells you to keep your mouth shut.

    Mentioning that ABC apparently told the WH he was let go, directly. Why would they do that without a legitimate and serious federal law being broken? (there wasn’t one)

    Then elucidating your intentions of wealth and political gain by writing about an assumed bias of the entertainment content and using the word ‘lucrative’ when comparing to a previous case with the same proposed defendant.