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Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> will be returning to air nearly a week after ABC pulled his late-night program<\/a>, Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em><\/a>, over the host’s comments about the death of Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n “Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” ABC’s corporate parent, the Walt Disney Company, said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n The company added, “It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.\u00a0We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”<\/p>\n ABC announced last week that Kimmel’s show was going off the air “indefinitely” after he said of Kirk’s alleged killer, “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.”<\/p>\n The ABC move came after Nexstar Media Group, the owner of many local TV stations, issued a press release<\/a> objecting to Kimmel’s remarks and saying that its ABC affiliates would be preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em>. (Nextstar recently made headlines by\u00a0announcing a $6.2 billion deal<\/a>\u00a0to acquire another broadcast station owner, Tegna. The deal would require government approval.)<\/p>\n Hours before Kimmel’s suspension, Brendan Carr, the FCC chair appointed by President Donald Trump<\/a>, had advocated for the move during an interview with\u00a0The Benny Show<\/em><\/a>. “Disney needs to see some change here, but the individual licensed stations that are taking their content, it’s time for them to step up and say this, you know, garbage to the extent that that’s what comes down the pipe in the future isn’t something that we think serves the needs of our local communities,” Carr said.<\/p>\n Kimmel’s suspension was met by a chorus of critics, including current and former hosts of similar talk shows that regularly skewer the political news of the day. Conan O’Brien wrote<\/a> that Kimmel’s suspension “should disturb everyone\u00a0on the Right, Left, and Center,” while Bill Maher<\/a>\u00a0called out ABC<\/a> for remaining silent after yanking\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em>\u00a0from the air.<\/p>\n Sign up for <\/em>Entertainment Weekly<\/a>‘s free daily newsletter<\/a> to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Some stars even moved to\u00a0cancel their Disney+ subscriptions<\/a>\u00a0in solidarity with Kimmel.<\/p>\n More than 400 prominent artists \u2014 including actors, comedians, musicians, writers, and directors \u2014 signed a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union<\/a> blasting ABC and condemning Kimmel’s suspension as an effort to silence artists, journalists, and media companies, calling it a “dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation.”<\/p>\n