Since it was announced Jimmy Kimmel would be hosting the 90th Academy Awards, to be telecast Sunday, the late-night talk show host has been hard at work preparing. MediaVillage caught up with him in January at the Television Critics Association Tour in Pasadena, when those planning stages were in their infancy. At the time Kimmel was hard pressed to reveal what he might do on the big night (he just didn’t know), but he was happy to field questions as to what viewers might, and might not, expect to see on the big night. “We're just figuring it out like anybody would,” he admitted.
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