‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ To Return To Its Regular Slot With Abbreviated Half-Hour Episodes Leading To ‘Nightline’

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By Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV In its second week back on TV, Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be returning to its original 11:35 PM time slot but there is a twist.

The late-night talk show will go from its standard hourlong format to 30 minutes, with a new half-hour Nightline following at 12:05 AM.

The entire ABC late-night block will remain 1.5 hours in length, with a an encore presentation of the Jimmy Kimmel Live episode from earlier that evening slotted at 12:35 AM.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! swapped slots with ABC News’s Nightline, which normally starts at 12:35 AM, on March 17, a day into the late-night talker’s production suspension over the coronavirus crisis when JKL was in repeats and Nightline was attracting strong viewership