ABC said on Monday that Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show would return to television Tuesday night (US time), nearly a week after the network suspended the show over his comments about the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The Walt Disney Co., ABC’s parent company, said in a statement that it spent the past few days having “thoughtful” conversations with Kimmel; after those discussions, it decided his show could resume.

The decision to pull the program “indefinitely” last week, made under unusual pressure from the Federal Communications Commission, had set off a political firestorm over free speech and the government’s ability to silence commentary it dislikes.

Here’s what has happened.

What did Kimmel say?

In his monologue on September 15, Kimmel discussed t

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