Kellison to Exit Kimmel Live

By
( )
published

Daniel Kellison, executive producer of ABC late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live
, is choosing not to renew his contract and will leave the show at the end of the year.

ABC hasn’t decided on a permanent replacement, but Duncan Gray, vice president of alternative series, has been on the set for the past six weeks and will take over executive-producer duties in the interim. Host Kimmel also executive-produces the show.

Season-to-date, Jimmy Kimmel Live
is averaging a 0.7 rating/4 share in adults 18-34 and men 18-34, three-tenths of a ratings point behind Late Night withDavid Letterman
in Kimmel’s core young-adult demos.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.