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A day after the first rehearsal for his new ESPN2 latenight program "Olbermann," Keith Olbermann reiterated that lessons learned from his tumultuous past would help keep him ruddered on his...

Michael Levitt has been named exec producer of the 2013 Young Hollywood Awards. Levitt's credits include the Billboard Music Awards, TV Land Awards and Producers Guild Awards. "The power and...

ESPN has officially confirmed that Nate Silver, the statistician behind political analysis site FiveThirtyEight.com, will join the sports network in a multifacted role later this year. The addition of Silver...

So, over the past two weeks, I made Emmy predictions in 10 of the major categories. I didn't really think about how well I expected to do, but in retrospect,...

Comedy is tragedy plus time. The Emmy nominations for comedy offer neither. It's not exactly a catastrophe that the field of Emmy comedy nominees has barely changed in the past...

Keith Olbermann and ESPN president John Skipper said there was no contractual prohibition on politics with Olbermann's new latenight talkshow, but that politics would come up only as the subject...

It's the blessing and the curse of the awards beat that you can see films like "Blue Jasmine" and "Short Term 12," as I have in the past week, and...

The time is nigh: The 2013 Primetime Emmy nominations will be announced at 5:40 a.m. Thursday. This is a great time to review Variety's Emmy preview coverage, most of which...

During Jon Stewart's long tenure as host of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," there have been moments - relatively rare - when the show's comedy underpinnings could barely contain...

The Primetime Emmy nominations are less than 48 hours away, and we have two posts left in our "What Will Happen" series. The penultimate piece looks at supporting actor in...