George Clooney’s 'Good Night, and Good Luck' becomes the first Broadway show to air live on cable. Here’s how to watch it without cable

"Good Night, and Good Luck" originated as a 2005 film starring George Clooney, David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson and Robert Downey Jr. The film tells the story of broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow's mission to challenge Senator Joseph McCarthy.

If he was going to come back to television, he might as well do something different." That's not my lede; that intro belongs to Hilary De Vries. She wrote it for The New York Times in April 2000 when Clooney first returned to television.