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FOURTH UPDATE, Saturday, 3:35 PM PT: Journalists’ account may have been reinstated, but that doesn’t mean they are functional. CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan appeared on the network Saturday and noted that he did not post a direct link to @ElonJet at all and has declined to remove a tweet in dispute. “There…

Keith Olbermann announced Tuesday that he his leaving ESPN, for the third time. This time around, however, it’s on good terms, the sportscaster reassured fans in a Twitter video. “This time it is on very, very happy terms. I hope to their desires for their sport casters to refrain from purely political commentary…

Keith Olbermann is taking on an expanded role at ESPN as part of a new deal with the network. Under the pact, Olbermann, who has contributed to various ESPN shows since January, will make additional appearances across ESPN platforms and programs in 2018. His new duties include select studio assignments with on-site…

Updated Saturday with video Bill Maher celebrated his birthday – and the 15th season premiere of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher – with an opening salvo against his old nemesis and new president: “What does every kid want for his birthday?,” the comedian asked in his first monologue since the Oval Office changeover…

Keith Olbermann this morning announced he’s got a new show. It’s not on television. He’s hosting a biweekly series for GQ called The Closer with Keith Olbermann.  “We’re trying to be at the spearhead of what’s obvious in television information programming: whether news or sports, it’s migrating to some form of…

"It's nothing serious —  just perhaps the most dangerous presidential candidate since the guy in the middle of the Civil War who wanted to give up in 1864,” Keith Olbermann said today of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. "What would happen if ISIS got nukes?" he asked The Ladies of The View on today’s broadcast.  “What…

In what’s sure to be a humdinger of a telecast, HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher this Friday will feature former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and in-the-news filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. Olbermann is the top-of-show interview guest and Tarantino the midshow interview guest who also will sit in with the…

The mystery of Keith Olbermann’s sudden cancellation from tonight’s Real Time With Bill Maher is solved, and it proves that the cranky Olbermann does indeed have a heart: His dog is sick. A spokeswoman for the long-running HBO panel show tells Deadline that Olbermann’s dog “became seriously ill two days ago,&#8221…

Updated with details: Keith Olbermann spent the first seven minutes of his ESPN2 show today slyly dinging media for its coverage of ESPN’s decision not to renew his contract — by tucking jokes into his defense of his network’s  report on New York Giants star Jason Pierre-Paul’s finger amputation. He also announced he…

Updated with more details: For a second time, Keith Olbermann is leaving ESPN. This time, the Disney-owned networks issued a statement saying it had made a business decision not to renew Olbermann’s contract, which is set to run out the end of this month. “Keith is a tremendous talent who has consistently done timely…

Remember how ESPN’s outspoken big-ticket talent Bill Simmons was negotiating his new contract with ESPN and being pretty chatty with the press about it, and then in early May network president John Skipper pulled a fast one and issued a statement saying "I decided today that we are not going to renew Bill Simmons'…

My perspective on David Letterman is a little different, I think, than most of his other frequent-but-really-not-that-big-a-deal guests. For one thing, while I can still be freshly awestruck by his intelligence and his creative genius, I like his humanity even more. The thing I like most about Dave is Dave. Plus, I…