Kimmel Thought His Show Was Finished After ABC Suspension

“A list of demands was presented to me, and I was not going to go along with any of them,” the host said at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday. In a wide-ranging interview, his first since returning to the air, Kimmel said his comments about Kirk’s killing were “intentionally and maliciously mischaracterized” by the political right. The host of on Walt Disney Co.’s ABC networkbecame a central figure in the Trump administration’s culture wars following the comments he made last month.