"Good Night and Good Luck" Live on CNN

Woot!

Jesus. Somebody needs to shoot CNN in the head and just end its suffering already. Seriously, it’s melted down into such a calamitous hot mess that I’m often stunned that the company’s board just doesn’t step in, clean house and reboot the damn network.

Why, R2?

I think this is a kind of cool idea for a news network.

I'll definitely be watching, especially since I would probably never attend the performance in person.

Beats paying hundreds of dollars to watch it on Broadway.

Thanks, CNN!

Hope this means it will be on HBO shortly after.

It'll be streaming on MAX, as well as CNN.

Clooney did a live broadcast of Fail Safe years ago. He must like the rush.

Who dat

[quote] Clooney did a live broadcast of Fail Safe years ago. He must like the rush.

Just like the rush he gets from sniffing poppers, while he's banging an Italian Twink!

Not watching CNN after Jake Tapper and Clooneys gang up on Biden. Fuck ‘em!

Fake Tapper gurgling on red nuts?

I thought that the whole idea of a Broadway show, was seeing it in person?

It's LIVE theater, and not a TV show FFS.

[quote] Fake Tapper gurgling on red nuts?

Huh?

This should be good.

I might make an event of it, with my friends.

A viewing party!

What's this movie about?

1. It's a play, not a movie.

2. It WAS a movie. Watch it.

Play not doing well at b.o.?

I love this Hollywood icon. Love him.

It's setting all kinds of box-office records, but it's a limited run and this is the penultimate performance.

Bump

7pm ET on CNN, CNN International and CNN.com with no cable login required. The show will also air live on Max.

Abe Vigoda looks rough

Abe had a late night

Present!

Anyone watching? It occurred to me at 6:54 pm that the 7 pm time I saw might be Eastern time (I'm in the Central time zone), so I did a quick check. Lo and behold, it started at 6, so dinner is being delayed.

How many of the male cast members did Clooney bang? 🤔

Can one stream this on HBO Max?

Impressive staging.

R26 Yes, one can

R26, yes

Tony and Emmy for an evening's work

God, this is tedious. I loved the movie.

R31 - attention span of a goldfish.

Ha ha! Isn't it hilarious how Liberace pretended to be straight?

[quote]I thought that the whole idea of a Broadway show, was seeing it in person?

That's like saying you won't buy the cast recording of a B'way musical because it was meant to be heard in the theater.

Just posted on ATC. It breaks my heart a bit.

[quote]I just wanna say as someone who can’t get to Broadway (and doesn’t feel safe travelling to the States right now) I’m very grateful for the opportunity to see a Broadway show “live” tonight.

Clooney seems more like David Strathairn's understudy here; he should have retained his role as Fred Friendly.

Will CNN keep the viewers engaged during intermission? Chances are many will not return after the break.

Is this really the first live broadcast of a Broadway show? Some queen here should know.

Not by a long shot..

^^ should have reprised his role.

R37: I may be mistaken, but did "The Sound of Music" and "Once Upon A Mattress" stream live?

Those were live broadcasts of network-produced shows, not Broadway productions broadcast live from a Broadway theater. I believe this is a first...and historic.

Live From Lincoln Center

If they were to do this with any show it should’ve been Jodie Comer’s seminal Prima Facie

They all sound/look like they're lip-synching. George looks deflated.

Lincoln Center isn't a Broadway theater.

R44, part of it is. The Vivian Beaumont is classified as a Broadway theater.

The ketchup is being flung tonight!!!

Wow! Didn't see "that" coming

I only could last for 15 minutes and got bored.

They're doing a panel on the impact of Edward R Murrow with Connie Chung?! Where's Maury?

Way to completely miss the point CNN.

I'm crying. It was wonderful. Damn.

Amal, is that you at r47?

Watched with my MAGA mom. LOVED his final speech.

I feel very lucky to have been able to experience that. The live applause after his commentaries was wonderful.

Where is our Edward R. Murrow? Our Guernica?

R35 grow a back bone.

R49 see a psychiatrist

Clooney’s really hit the wall hasn’t he?

R47 That makes two of us. I really wanted to enjoy it but it lost my attention.

the video montage at the end with elon doing the nazi salute was extraordinary

The after show with TV journalists is more provocative than the play. Go Abby!

I’m enjoying it very much. Better than I thought it would be, more interesting than I thought it would be, and it couldn’t be more timely.

Murrow”s speeches on this subject don’t date. And I think George Clooney is very good, his Tony nomination makes sense.

R54 see a cult deprogrammer.

R59 I was very moved by that montage, and his final speech. So great.

The most salient comments during the panel discussion, after the play, were about corporations owning the news media. When it became important to the bigwigs that news had to make money, objectivity, honor, and trust went down the tubes. Look what’s happening at CBS now, and ABC recently Both caving to Trump so they can continue making money with less interference from The Orange Man.

He really needs to play Cary Grant in a film someday, too!

Very special experience. Watched it with friends here in SF. It's about time we see something more provocative like this.

[Quote] That makes two of us. I really wanted to enjoy it but it lost my attention.

More like two million of you🥱🥱

Good Night is appropriate, as it would induce sleep within 10 minutes.

Provocative? Hardly. It was like NPR for the eyes.

I really can't stand Clooney and his pre-interview with Cooper brought on that epiphany. He was banging on about the McCarthy era and how today's political climate is worse, but once we get rid of the ringleaders, we'll get back to normal blahblahblah. Then I thought about his "Letter to Biden."

You're a fucking one-note, smug, and honestly, kinda creepy ACTOR.

I did like seeing Fran Kranz tho.

Can they fuse the Tony and Emmy together to make one big monstruous award for George and Amal to carry around once they leave town?