Big potential update about Disney and Jimmy Kimmel's future revealed on MSNBC

Deadline executive editor Dominic Patten said that he's hearing Disney may back down after public backlash over the yanking of ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, nearly 24 hours after the news broke, Patten said, "There is some hope that they can find apathway back," speaking about ABC's parent company Disney.

"Jimmy Kimmel is still hosting 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'" he said. "But it's going to be a hard roadbecause we've seen therepercussions of this. Thereare protests happening outsidethe Disney offices in Burbank.There are protests happening on Hollywood Boulevard.Are they massive?No, but they'rethere. People are canceling their Disney+ subscriptions."

The "fact of the matter is there's always been atendency in American life — we saw itwith the Smothers Brothers in the '60s. We saw with Bill Maher in 2002, who got canceled because he saidthat he would not accept calling the 9/11 terroristscowards," Patten continued.

"He called them terrorists, but not cowards. That was how Jimmy Kimmel gothis show in 2003, because ofthat. Irony of ironies,unfortunately."

He went on to say that this comes after President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Wednesday night, warning that Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers were next.

"And you don't think thatthat's going to land somewhere with people? We saw this in the '80s. Youremember [Jerry] Falwell used to talkabout wanting to buy CBS so hecould fire Dan Rather?That is, this is aconservative instinct that has been there," Patten added.