The actor made Broadway history by presenting his Broadway debut on television, the first play to be televised live.

George Clooney helped adapt the play from his 2005 Oscar-nominated film ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’NEED TO KNOWGeorge Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck will air on CNN on June 7It will be the first Broadway play to be televisedGood Night,

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.