Jimmy Kimmel will return to his late-night talk show on Tuesday, nearly a week after the show was put on indefinite hiatus after the Federal Communications Commission chair threatened to revoke ABC affiliate licenses in response to Kimmel’s comments about the death of Charlie Kirk.

“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,” the Walt Disney Company said in a statement Monday. “It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.”

“We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday,” Disney added.

Kimmel’s remarks came during the Sept. 15 episode where he criticized the “MAGA gang,” for “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

The motives behind Kirk’s shooting on Sept. 10 during a student Q&A at Utah Valley University remain unknown and the reports about the political-leanings of 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson have been inconsistent.

FCC chair Brendan Carr said in an interview that Disney could lose its affiliate broadcast licenses and the network pulled the talk show from the airwaves indefinitely, leading to sustained backlash from others in the entertainment industry while Kimmel’s time slot was filled by reruns of “Celebrity Family Feud.”

Over the weekend, reports emerged that Disney and Kimmel were negotiating his return to the show. Kimmel reportedly did not plan to apologize and instead emphasize how his comments were taken out of context and “grossly mischaracterized” by MAGA before Disney decided to bench him, fearing that would only make the situation worse.

Despite calls from allies like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to not use the FCC to bully opponents, President Donald Trump has continued to threaten networks and other TV personalities.

It’s unclear whether Nexstar and Sinclair, two of the biggest ABC affiliate owners that threatened to withhold “Kimmel,” will air the show on Tuesday.

The situation occurred around two months after CBS canceled “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” before a merger between Paramount and Skydance was made official.

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