According to Deadline, discord has erupted inside Disney over Kimmel’s suspension, with a series of “mixed face-to-face and virtual meetings” between the company’s top execs and Kimmel and his team taking place throughout Thursday (September 18).

Disney bosses are scrambling to convince Jimmy Kimmel to tone down his rhetoric before putting his show back on the air as the company scrambles to manage fallout from

Jimmy Kimmel learned in a phone call Wednesday afternoon that his 22-year late-night run on ABC was put on hold, at least for now. Deadline understands that the person on the other end of the line of the phone was Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Dana Walden.

Disney on Wednesday sidelined Jimmy Kimmel "indefinitely" on the heels of controversial comments the late-night host made about the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk. The move came as Disney faced mounting pressure from ABC affiliate stations around the country,