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CNN to Air ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Live on June 7

CNN will present the play’s final weekend performance as a commercial-free event with pre- and postshow segments examining the state of journalism

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George Clooney stars as Edward R. Murrow.

Overview

  • The Broadway play 'Good Night, and Good Luck' starring George Clooney as Edward R. Murrow is scheduled for a live broadcast on CNN at 7 p.m. ET on Saturday, one day before its June 8 closing at the Winter Garden Theatre.
  • Den of Thieves will use 20 cameras and 14 operators to capture the production without commercial breaks, marking a first-of-its-kind live telecast of a Broadway show.
  • CNN Originals will bookend the performance with a preshow hosted by Pamela Brown outside the theater and a postshow panel led by Anderson Cooper on journalism’s contemporary challenges.
  • The production recouped its $9.5 million capitalization in just over seven weeks and has repeatedly set records for highest weekly gross among Broadway plays.
  • The play revisits Murrow’s crusade against Senator Joseph McCarthy to highlight media accountability and aligns with CNN’s strategy of innovative programming to expand its audience.