ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” will mark the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic — or as the show calls it, the “one-year anniversary of our national incarceration,” with a special episode next Thursday.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live: Coronaversary Show” will take the place of a regular episode of the late-night talker on March 11 at 11:35 p.m. Et. Among the guests will be U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, returning to the show exactly a year after he guest hosted “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
That Buttigieg-hosted episode in March 2020, scheduled long before the pandemic unfolded, was notable in that it didn’t have a studio audience — only “Kimmel” staffers and Buttigieg’s entourage. And it was also the final episode for “Jimmy Kimmel Live” before production completely shut down over concerns that Covid-19 was rapidly spreading.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” and the other late night talk shows went dark for several weeks before slowly returning with truncated,...
“Jimmy Kimmel Live: Coronaversary Show” will take the place of a regular episode of the late-night talker on March 11 at 11:35 p.m. Et. Among the guests will be U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, returning to the show exactly a year after he guest hosted “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
That Buttigieg-hosted episode in March 2020, scheduled long before the pandemic unfolded, was notable in that it didn’t have a studio audience — only “Kimmel” staffers and Buttigieg’s entourage. And it was also the final episode for “Jimmy Kimmel Live” before production completely shut down over concerns that Covid-19 was rapidly spreading.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” and the other late night talk shows went dark for several weeks before slowly returning with truncated,...
- 3/5/2021
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
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