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How George Clooney’s Broadway Show 'Good Night, and Good Luck' is Preparing to Go Live | THR News Video
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6/5/2025
George Clooney's play 'Good Night, and Good Luck' is set to air live on CNN…so, The Hollywood Reporter is breaking down how the Broadway production is preparing to do it.
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George Clooney's play, Good Night and Good Luck, is set to air live on CNN.
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Here's how the Broadway production is preparing to do it.
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The idea for the live broadcast originated with Clooney,
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who co-wrote the play and is starring in it as legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow.
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The play follows Murrow as he pursues reporting exposing the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy
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and stands up to pushback from McCarthy as well as CBS station heads.
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The play is set to air on CNN and CNN International at 7 p.m. Eastern on Saturday,
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as well as stream on CNN's website and live on Mac's.
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If you're brave enough to stand up to the forces determined to keep you silent,
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no matter the consequences.
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CNN is also airing a pre-show outside the theater hosted by anchor Pamela Brown
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and a post-show discussion with Anderson Cooper about the play and the state of journalism.
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Den of Thieves is executive producing the live broadcast
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and plans to use 20 cameras with 14 camera operators positioned in the aisles
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and around the live audience that will be sitting in the 1,500-seat theater Saturday night.
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The idea is to film the production as it appears on stage rather than in a stylized broadcast,
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which also means sometimes showing the audience.
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The co-founder of Den of Thieves told The Hollywood Reporter,
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it was very critical for George that we capture this as a theater experience.
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CNN will also be airing the production without commercials in keeping with the Broadway experience.
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The team plans to shoot the Friday evening show and the Saturday matinee as a rehearsal,
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which will then be reviewed before the live broadcast.
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The production team's director has already seen the show 12 times in preparation.
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The executive VP of talent at CNN Originals and Creative Development told THR,
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this was a great idea in the sense that, obviously, the theme of the play is what was happening to the press in the 1950s
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and very much relevant to what people talk about today in our audience, what we talk about sometimes.
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And so syncing that up just made all the sense in the world.
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For much more on this story, go to THR.com.
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This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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The Hollywood Reporter News.
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