Countdown with Keith Olbermann was an hour-long weeknight news and political commentary program hosted by
Keith Olbermann that aired on
MSNBC from 2003-2011 and
Current TV from 2011-2012. The show presented five selected news stories of the day, with commentary by Olbermann and interviews of guests. At the start of
Countdown, Olbermann told television columnist
Lisa de Moraes:
"Our charge for the immediate future is to stay out of the way of the news.... News is the news. We will not be screwing around with it.... As times improve and the war [in Iraq] ends we will begin to introduce more and more elements familiar to my style."