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when Kimmel first brought him on camera in 2003, to do security guard comedy bits with Kimmel's Uncle Frank Potenza, who also had a background as a security guard in Las Vegas and as a police officer in New York.

When we left off, Terry and Jimmy Kimmel were talking about Uncle Frank.

Thank you.

Take care.

Jimmy Kimmel speaking to Terry Gross in 2013.

Here's one final taste from Wednesday night's show.

Kimmel plays a clip from Newsmax in which a correspondent presents a rather unusual explanation for Kimmel's reinstatement.

Jimmy Kimmel Live has been reinstated on most of these ABC stations.

Well, many of them anyway.

The show's next original telecast is scheduled for Monday.

Coming up, I review The House of Guinness, the new period TV series from Stephen Knight.

This is Fresh Air.

Stephen Knight, creator of the intense British period dramas Peaky Blinders and A Thousand Blows, is back with a third one, which premiered this week on Netflix.

It's an eight-part series called The House of Guinness and tells the story of the battle for control at the venerable Irish brewing company in the 1860s.

Let's begin by noting the way Stephen Knight begins The House of Guinness.

he starts with a very unusual and very freeing disclaimer.

This fiction, it says in a message superimposed on the screen, is inspired by true stories.

Right up front, that gives Stephen Knight the creative license to do just about anything he wants with his story and his characters, even though it's taking its inspiration from actual events, locations, and personalities.

The House of Guinness has been described as a sort of 1860s succession, with the adult children of a very wealthy and powerful man jockeying to gain control of his empire.

And there were indeed four grown children of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, all of whom had their own ideas about what to do with his fortune and his beer-producing empire.