Disney has said it would return comedian Jimmy Kimmel to late-night television on Tuesday, six days after his show was threatened with a regulatory probe and suspended over comments he made about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Disney’s move to restore the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ show to the lineup of its ABC network represented the highest-profile challenge yet from a communications company to an escalating crackdown by US President Donald Trump on his perceived media critics through litigation and warnings of regulatory action, a Reuters report from Los Angeles stated.

The U-turn came after several prominent conservatives, including US Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican who leads oversight of the Federal Communications Commission, joined Democrats in criticizing the head of the FCC for threatening retaliation against ABC.

Disney also faced pressure from consumers rallying against Kimmel’s suspension by cancelling their subscriptions to the Disney+ streaming subscription service.

Kimmel, who has frequently ridiculed Trump on his show, drew outrage from conservatives for saying that Trump’s supporters were desperate to characterize Kirk’s accused assassin “as anything other than one of them” and for trying to “score political points” from his murder.

The comments came in the opening monologue of Kimmel’s Monday night broadcast, five days after Kirk, an influential Trump ally, author and radio-podcast host, was shot dead while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem.

In the wake of threats of investigation, fines and broadcast license revocations from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, and a boycott by many of ABC’s affiliate stations, Disney said last Wednesday it was shutting down production of Kimmel’s program indefinitely.

In announcing Kimmel’s return on Tuesday, Disney said it had initially suspended the show “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.”