Jimmy Kimmel’s Next Move: Brooklyn or Bust?

As the entertainment community rallies behind Jimmy Kimmel in the wake of ABC’s sudden yanking of his late-night show at the behest of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, pressing questions remain about his immediate future on the network. Namely, whether the show’s upcoming residency at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, scheduled to air from Sept. 29 through Oct. 3, will go on.

Sources close to the production tell Rolling Stone that trucks containing the show’s staging are due to leave Los Angeles today, Sept. 19, in order to make the cross-country trek to New York. To relocate the show for five days is a costly move: north of $5 million, estimates an industry insider. Video showing members of Kimmel’s Hollywood crew packing up gear surfaced on social media yesterday, adding to the confusion — and speculation (was Margo Price Kimmel’s last-ever guest?) — about whether the show will ever return to air. (Representatives for ABC and Kimmel did not respond to requests for comment.)