Keith Olbermann made his triumphant return to television on Monday night, sliding in at the 11 PM hour against SportsCenter with his own new late-night show "Olbermann" on ESPN2, the network he helped launch over a decade ago.
Olbermann was his usual self, funny, self-deprecating, serious and stoic at times and he pulled no punches as he opened up with a story and comment on the New York Jets and head coach Rex Ryan. He went after the head coach and the way he handled the quarterback situation on Thursday night against the Giants as Mark Sanchez was injured after being put in the fourth quarter and he also played video from the press conference after the game.
Some features of the show include an opening broad highlight and context run down from Olbermann before he gets into other topics and other segments include "This Week in Keith History" as well as "Keithlights" and more. Olbermann spoke about baseball, did some Yankees highlights, showed off his old jacket and also spoke with Mark Cuban. Olbermann was even able to drop a Politically Incorrect reference with Cuban and the interview was very solid.
Olbermann is a natural on television and he ripped Manish Mehta and the NY Daily News for basically making up a story out of thin air with no sourcing except for...Manish Mehta. While ESPN does this all the time, cough cough Ron Jaworski cough cough (here is a great run down from Deadspin on how ESPN made a story out of nothing about Colin Kaepernick), but Olbermann's was more about how newspapers now are struggling and this is how they have to cover things.
He ripped Ryan as well as how Mehta wrote a story the week before going to the exact opposite of what he had done the week after and also about how he covered what was going on with Rex Ryan. Olbermann also added a few lines about Chris Christie and his response. He also had new ESPN hire Jason Whitlock on the show as well.
Olbermann will be on nightly on weeknights and his show looks like it could be a great success.
