Jobless Keith Olbermann Wants His Old Job Back
Former Current TV chief news officer and host Keith Olbermann is talking to the head honchos at ESPN, possibly about rejoining the sports news giant where he worked from 1992 to 1997.
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TBS's Major League Baseball post-season coverage will be graced by everyone's favorite vitriolic television host: Keith Olbermann. Olbermann, who was fired from Current TV in March of last year, is returning to TV to lead TBS's studio show, The Hollywood Reporter's Marisa Guthrie writes.
Former Current TV chief news officer and host Keith Olbermann is talking to the head honchos at ESPN, possibly about rejoining the sports news giant where he worked from 1992 to 1997.
The search for bridges that Keith Olbermann has not yet burned has stopped at the MLB Network where he'll be a guest host ... while there is no baseball being played. Laugh all you want—we know it's not glamorous as his previous jobs, but we think it's actually all a pretty good fit.
When liberal firebrand Keith Olbermann was acrimoniously dismissed from Current TV seven months ago, we pondered the remaining networks he could jump to that didn't already have sour relations with him. Turns out, he's approaching some rather unorthodox venues: Viacom, AMC Networks and at least one broadcast network, according to Forbes' Jeff Bercovici.
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NBC News is getting hammered in two of the country's biggest newspapers and former Keith Olbermann, who went to war with NBC two employer fights ago, couldn't be happier.
"Look, my mom watches, she's happy. I've got a bunch of friends who love it," he said.
Keith Olbermann made his triumphant return to broadcast over the weekend, appearing as a well-behaved panelist on ABC This Week Sunday, where he seemed glad to be one of the people commenting on the news instead of one of the parties in the story.
Charlize Theron is a busy lady, Jason Segel and Michelle Williams have that new couple glow, and Chris Christie explains what he was really doing when he fell asleep at a Bruce Springsteen concert.
Politico has posted Current TV's legal defense against Keith Olbermann's lawsuit in the wake of his firing, and, in keeping with their public statement from Thursday, they are denying all his allegations.
The fireball of destruction that is Keith Olbermann's career has veered its course toward former colleague and Current TV host Cenk Uygur.
The war of words between Current TV and former employee Keith Olbermann has ended up where everyone expected it to: a courthouse.
Reuters' scoop that Time Warner Cable has the right to drop Al Gore's left-leaning news channel Current TV if its ratings plunge isn't all schadenfreude for Keith Olbermann: his replacement, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer's 47,000 viewers a night are just enough to squeak by.
Recently unemployed news anchor Keith Olbermann stopped by The Late Show with David Letterman last night to give his first public, non-Twitter explanation for what went wrong on Current TV.
The weekend has aired out a heaping load of dirty laundry surrounding the dismissal of Current TV personality Keith Olbermann.
Perpetual bridge-burner Keith Olbermann set ablaze another viaduct Friday with an acrimonious departure from Al Gore's Current TV network. Where can he go next?
The New York Times's Brian Stelter reported Friday that Current TV has dismissed cable news host Keith Olbermann after he moved there just over a year ago from MSNBC, and the break-up does not sound amicable.
Conservative video provocateur James O'Keefe filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Keith Olbermann, his Countdown guest host David Shuster, and their employer Current TV, for saying he'd been convicted of a felony and accused of rape.
Keith Olbermann and Piers Morgan snapped at one another on Twitter Monday, but they don't seem to have the energy for a complete spat.
Keith Olbermann is accusing Gawker of getting burned by a source who rattled off a tirade against the embattled Current host's "rage, outbursts and bad suits."
Keith Olbermann's become known for pulling other media outlets into the ring when he gets into fights with his former bosses at MSNBC and ESPN, and he's taking The New York Times' Twitter-fueled TV reporter Brian Stelter.
It's unclear what will come of the recently publicized spat between Keith Olbermann and Current, but all signs point to a reckoning.
Zooey Deschanel's personal finances leaked, Russell Brand had doubts about marrying Katy Perry, and another Village Voice veteran has been laid off.
Just over half a year since the company poured millions into hiring him and building a new studio in New York City, Keith Olbermann is butting heads with his superiors at Current.
The former outfielder was arrested last night on domestic battery charges
The Hollywood Reporter says she negotiated a multi-year deal with MSNBC
A natural drop-off in curiosity and the July Fourth holiday weekend are blamed
He's been touting his new Current show, but biting his tongue about MSNBC
The deposed MSNBC host's debut on Current was awfully familiar
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They include Donald Sutherland, Matt Taibbi and John W. Dean
He asks how it is to "live with the knowledge that you've lost to Bill O'Reilly?"
David Carr profiles the soon-to-be Current TV anchor in the Times
Revelations in a new interview: he doesn't talk to Rachel Maddow, bad-mouthed Jeff Zucker
A re-examination of Olbermann's "special comment" on the Tuscon massacre
The former vice president is furious that News Corp. dropped Current TV in Italy
Plus: Scott Pelley goes under the knife
The new 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' will premiere on Current TV on June 20
Nobody is willing to go to greater lengths to raise funds
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