The former ER star will produce and star in the two-hour drama April 9. It will be CBS' first live drama broadcast since Playhouse 90 ended in 1960, the year before Mr. Clooney was born.
Live television is great.
We were around it my whole life. It would really be fun to make them an on-going thing, and do four of them a year. He remembers grazing through channels as a kid and stumbling upon the 1964 movie starring Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman and Fritz Weaver. I sat there with my mouth open for the last hour of it. Mr. Clooney has enlisted original Fail-Safe screenwriter Walter Bernstein to revise the script.