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Less than a week after his late-night talk show was suspended<\/a> indefinitely following his controversial remarks made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Jimmy Kimmel is returning to ABC.<\/p>\n Northeast Ohioans who want to watch “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” can now do so starting Tuesday night on WEWS Channel 5.<\/p>\n “Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a\u00a0tense situation at an emotional moment for our country<\/a>,” Disney, ABC’s owner, said in a Sept. 22, statement to USA TODAY<\/a>. “It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.\u00a0We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”<\/p>\n During the opening monologue on the Sept. 15 episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, Kimmel criticized supporters of President Donald Trump following the arrest of\u00a0Tyler Robinson<\/a>, the 22-year-old charged with Kirk’s murder.<\/p>\n “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang 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,” Kimmel said in the episode.<\/p>\n The late-night host later compared President Trump’s mourning of the slain political commentator to “the way a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish.\u201d<\/p>\n