Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show will return to screens in just hours following a “bombshell” announcement by Walt Disney Company.

The firm, which owns US broadcaster ABC, confirmed the 57-year-old’s show will return on Tuesday.

Kimmel was briefly banned from the airwaves last Wednesday after being accused of being “offensive and insensitive” in his show last Monday.

He sparked fury by suggesting that conservatives were trying to distance themselves from Kirk’s alleged killer Tyler Robinson, 22.

Kimmel’s show will now return to its regular slot, Disney confirmed tonight.

In a statement, Walt Disney Company said: “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.

“!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.”

In his controversial show, which aired shortly after Kirk’s assassination, Kimmel said: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

Speaking about Trump, Kimmel added: “This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.”

“Many in Maga land are working very hard to capitalise on the murder of Charlie Kirk,” the 57-year-old continued.

Walt Disney Company faced pressure to take the show off-air after Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened to take legal action.

In an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, he said: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way”.

Carr later praised the move, describing it as “important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community values”.