Entertainment | Jimmy Kimmel Kimmel Will Return to Air Next Month Late-night host joins Leno, O'Brien despite writers' strike By Laurel Jorgensen Posted Dec 18, 2007 9:08 PM CST Copied 2007 American Music Awards host Jimmy Kimmel speaks to reporters before nominations were announced for the annual music awards show, in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) (Associated Press) ABC's Jimmy Kimmel will join his talk-show pals Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien in returning to the air Jan. 2, despite the ongoing writers' strike, the AP reports. “Though it makes me sick to do so without my writers, there are more than a hundred people whose financial well-being depends on our show,” Kimmel said. “It is time to go back to work.” Kimmel said he supports colleagues and friends in the writers' guild and hopes the nearly 2-month-long dispute “ends both fairly and soon.” David Letterman and his production company, meanwhile, are in separate negotiations with the guild to return to the air early next month as well—but with writers on board. Read These Next Hundreds of South Koreans were detained at a Georgia factory site. The story of a failed secret SEAL mission in North Korea. How you make it up the mountain can earn you cheers, or jeers. Residents of famed nudist ranch are suing property owners. Report an error