Almost four decades ago, I was a contributing editor to Interview magazine. I’m also an insomniac. Consequently, I routinely wrote at night and went to bed late. That is, until NBC launched a live hour-long program called Overnight at 1:30am, and then I went to bed even later. Overnight may be the smartest television news hour ever produced, because it did what other newscasts didn’t. It assumed by this time of the evening/morning you already knew what had happened that day. Overnight zeroed in on the why and how certain events had transpired, delivering enlightening and sometimes revelatory, in-depth stories…
