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Jimmy Kimmel will return to hosting his late-night show, 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!,' on Tuesday following a brief-but-monumental suspension that sparked a national debate over the Trump Administration's pressure tactics and the modern limits and consequences of free speech.

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00:00Jimmy Kimmel will return to hosting his late-night show on Tuesday.

00:05Jimmy Kimmel Live will be back on air Tuesday following a brief but monumental suspension

00:09that sparked a national debate over the Trump administration's pressure tactics

00:13and the modern limits and consequences of free speech.

00:16ABC parent company The Walt Disney Company said in a statement on Monday,

00:20Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show

00:23to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.

00:27It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.

00:33We've spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy,

00:36and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.

00:41The move follows an extraordinary week in the media that kicked off with Kimmel

00:44making a somewhat vaguely worded on-air comment on Monday about Charlie Kirk's assassin.

00:49Despite Kimmel's return, it is not immediately clear if he will be available across the entire country.

00:54Sinclair, for its part, had said that it would not go back to running Kimmel's show

00:57on its stations until the late-night host apologized for his comments,

01:01met with Sinclair representatives, and made a donation to Turning Point,

01:04the organization that Kirk founded.

01:06Sinclair, it should be noted, owns the ABC station in the Washington, D.C. metro area,

01:11among other markets.

01:12Next star, similarly, could also choose to continue to preempt the show,

01:15though of course it would still be accessible online across the country after it runs on ABC.

01:20For all the latest updates on this story, go to THR.com.

01:23This is the Hollywood Reporter News.

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