Overview
- Music producer Jim Pitt informed industry contacts of the shift in recent weeks, with bookings targeted at roughly two acts per week.
- Multiple outlets report the number will vary rather than be a strict cap, and the show is not reducing its runtime.
- ABC and Jimmy Kimmel Live representatives have not commented, and the rollout is not immediate.
- This week still features three bookings: Molly Tuttle; Debbie Gibson sitting in with The Cletones; and HUNTR/X from KPop Demon Hunters featuring EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami.
- The move aligns with a broader pullback across late night, where annual music bookings have fallen from about 800 in the early 2010s to around 200 in 2023, as other shows scale back or end.