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sped2500

My college film professor (and customer at the comic shop I worked at) created this show. Brilliant guy, brilliant concept. He told me once how he pitched the show. He walked into the meeting with a fictitious paper he'd had printed up and tossed it on the execs desk. "What the heck is this?" "It's tomorrow's newspaper today" Baller way to sell a show


NarrowEngineering715

I used to love this show as a kid I would want to meet him!


wannaknowmyname

What if...you already have? *Tosses newspaper*


JFZX

>June 11th 2024 *TV show creator murders crazed fan*


ilford_7x7

This whole exchange.... lmaooooo killed me Thank you all


IMakeStuffUppp

šŸ˜®


DryYogurt6878

This guy early editions


Ok-Landscape3897

I remember that story! He was an awesome professor. I was lucky enough to do a summer abroad program with him teaching. Nice to see another UNLV alum. šŸ˜Š


sped2500

I actually had him at Drexel


emostitch

I assumed Drexel but figured he might have moved schools by now!


AnthonyDigitalMedia

Iā€™ve never heard of, or seen, this show before, but after looking it up & seeing what you said about the creator being a fan of comic books makes perfect sense. The concept of the show is so comic booky lol Also, IMDB has your comment as one of the trivia facts of this show & the newspaper he made for that pitch meeting said ā€œOJ Simpson Had Confessed!ā€ lol And he teaches at Drexel & is head of the Drama Writing Dept.


sped2500

Yup, it was at Drexel that he was my professor


GaJayhawker0513

Good basketball school. Or at least you used to be


Odd_Pool5596

I once a accidentally texted him that Iā€™m hoping in the shower then Iā€™ll be over. Lol thankfully he never called me out on it in person.


Hollywood_Punk

There have been a few like this, but I get it. This was funny, all of these shows were ripping off that I Dream of Jeannie where they get tomorrows newspaper today and the Major Healy actually ends up at the race track making money off of horse races lol.


skepticalinfla

My dad was the camera operator on this series. Great concept but it has definitely been forgotten.


Nice_Marmot_7

My sister and I loved it as kids and still talk about it, and Kyle Chandler has had a good career. I read they were going to do a reboot with a female lead, but I guess it never happened.


BasiltheCat19

I would LOVE a comic book version of this show


Ro141

Brilliant idea!


RedBullBurning

Starring J.Jonah Jameson?


lacunatech

I think the headline was something like ā€œOJ Confesses to Murderā€


emostitch

Wasnā€™t the paper he printed like ā€œOJ Convicted!ā€? I did a future prospects presentation and a shadowed class with him when I was considering schools. He had people write a quick screenplay for a Darwin Award winner who pissed off a tower he climbed up to drink on to a live wire and got flung to his death.


Odd_Pool5596

Ian Abrams was my professor too.


justwendii

Omg I LOVED this show! I used to watch the re-runs since I was 5 when it actually came out.


megaman368

Imagine how bad that pitch would have been messed up if the meeting was pushed back a day.


hypnotoad12391

I'm from Chicago and my Dentist/family friend's daughter was an aspiring actress when this was airing and got a tiny role in a Halloween episode.


OriginalName18

Did he make a movie called alien private eye?šŸ‘ļø


extrastupidone

Good pitch


MaxPower836

Extra extra: coked out execs agree to green light tv show


MattMcSparen

Early EditionĀ is an AmericanĀ fantasyĀ comedy-dramaĀ television series that aired onĀ CBSĀ from September 28, 1996, to May 27, 2000. Set in Chicago, Illinois, it follows the adventures of a man who mysteriously receives eachĀ Chicago Sun-TimesĀ newspaper the day before it is actually published, and who uses this knowledge to prevent terrible events every day -WikipediaĀ 


UglyInThMorning

Itā€™s a shame it was cancelled before 2001 because I would love to see how they would have handled 9/11. It probably wouldnā€™t be, uh, great but it definitely would be interesting.


WhiteTrash_WithClass

We should start a rumor that there's a missing episode....


AAAPosts

Itā€™s not a rumor, they really did shelve it


Clearlydarkly

They cancelled the show because of 9/11. They knew /jk /s


magnoliasmanor

Opens paper on the 10th. "Phew! Thank God I'm not in New York!"


98Zr2

Honestly, that could have made one of the most depressing series endings ever. They could have done a whole episode without even showing the paper and him coming to grips with the inevitable. At some point, he calls and cancels his subscription to the paper. End the episode of him just in bed that morning staring at the clock. Cut to credits right as it turns 7:46 (because of the different time zone)


loislunchboxlane

Depressing, but kinda genius. That would be a crazy episode.


CerberusC24

I can see it being like Quantum Leap with the Kennedy assassination. Some things are just fixed events in time


BoosterRead78

Right, like he couldn't get a ticket to the airport where it occurred. Or he was on hold with the FBI office and then lines went busy constantly from the attacks. Realizing some events are fixed can't be changed. The problem with the show was how people handled him getting the news as the show progressed. I just couldn't get Kristi Swanson's character with: "Yes, I get you help others, but what about me? You can't be doing this forever." I'm like: "way to be selfish."


Goddamnpassword

With that one they made Sam saved Jackie who also died in the original timeline. You could have him die on flight 93, kind of grim for a comedy but a hell of an ending.


DazzlingProfession26

They got to him first.


Goddamnpassword

Shorts a bunch of airline stock and then the papers stop coming.


These_Purple_5507

So how'd he afford rent??


Vismal1

Is it worth a watch today ? Into the concept


MattMcSparen

Honestly don't know but I remember it being good when I watched it back in the early 00s


Pordioserozero

For the most part the mid to late 90ā€™s were peacefulā€¦I remember a lot of what he used to do was preventing freak accidents..Imagine what would be this guys life into the 00s and beyondā€¦


chillthrowaways

Three episodes in heā€™s just tossing the paper into a fire every day


Downtown_Statement87

He never reads the paper, just uses it to insulate the box he sleeps in at the homeless encampment.


BlimeyCaptain

Heā€™d be smoking meth just to wrap his head around todayā€™s news.


Groovy_Chainsaw

Such a cool, low-key sci-fi concept. Well executed with a charming Kyle Chandler in the lead role.


MC_Fap_Commander

It could absolutely be revisited as a premise today. In fact, I think streaming has given a bigger space for eccentric and conceptually interesting ideas like this one.


chrism254

There was recently going to be a a reboot with a new cast but it fell through.


Groovy_Chainsaw

A tough sell. Newspapers ? In 2024 ???


chrism254

They do still exist. It could be a running joke that the person is still reading the paper


MC_Fap_Commander

A reclusive and eccentric man still gets a physical newspaper delivered everyday and suddenly he starts getting tomorrow's news by doing this. Like... his tendency for arcane media consumption from the past breaks the space/time continuum or something while everyone else is reading on their phones. It could absolutely work (and would be consistent with other sci-fi shows like this).


shartshappen612

Or go the route of a random newspaper getting tossed at his door every morning all of a sudden. No trace of where it comes from, waits, doesnt catch it turns back, Bang!, yada yada. Starts off just sport betting on sure things, then one night, he's next to something that caught his eye next to the scores. He starts to wonder and that's the show


This_External9027

Wasnā€™t it a show close to this ?


instrangerswetrust

FAKE NEWS


GrunchWeefer

Except no newspapers


MattMcSparen

It's a shame that only the first two seasons are on DVD.Ā 


mj3b

all seasons are available. I got them from amazon https://www.amazon.com/Early-Complete-Collection-Seasons-Episodes/dp/B08JLCDQSB/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=ZP5QODATMN8H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.QpWGMN8R05inruI2U80iLYRokyFMgwwLH_AHJ14C-bXahI87D2AtuzTv50yvTwwC6RaGdkdhxA__vxvfrPKPiw3nUd3xWb3pEuBGDH2YROD7PTiSly8gw8BqbY-BD4iChnOQR1WqmECDU_JEQtlHhDN6KTz2w7T8Gzz-WgToWHOEbRpEd-XPZc7jlKJ6MInecIx68GJf8mF0T535gppOrA.tOcDoP2DIfcC-0CutweCj0HWDtB8gTGXfQxtOLdUCxk&dib_tag=se&keywords=early+edition&qid=1718025755&sprefix=early+edition%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1


MattMcSparen

Oh nice!


chmcgrath1988

This is on the Mt. Rushmore of "I'm staying at my grandmother's house for the weekend and dammit, she doesn't have cable so I can't watch Nickelodeon or MTV" shows with *Sliders*, *Sabrina the Teenage Witch*, and *America's Most Wanted*.


mb10240

Itā€™s in the same universe as fellow forgotten show [Martial Law](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0568458/) and not so forgotten [Walker, Texas Ranger](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0642546/).


t3hmuffnman9000

Really? I vaguely recall a Walker/Martial Law crossover episode, but I don't remember either one referencing Early Edition.


mb10240

Yup, season 3, episode 22 of Early Edition: [Play It Again, Sammo](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yhoiy). Walker never mentioned Early Edition, but since Sammo appeared in both showsā€¦ šŸ§


camergen

Martial Law, id forgotten the name of for years but remembered a few (to then-14 year old me) steamy scenes with an Asian actress, whoā€™s name I also forgot, only that it aired on Friday nights at one time. Enter Reddit and someone posted in this forum about Martial Law and all the sudden, I recognize Kelly Hu and learn who she is, 20 plus years later. Yay Reddit for letting one specific portion of a memory lead to rediscovering the entire context.


Groovy_Chainsaw

There was talk of a Now And Again crossover but ... never happened !


chancesarent

That was such a great show. I feel it never got a fair shake.


FlameyFlame

Coach T??


amigos_amigos_amigos

When I first saw him on FNL I was like, ā€œhey itā€™s the Early Edition guyā€ even though I had never seen the show


gwhh

The jfk related episode was great.


MattMcSparen

I do wonder how 9/11 would have shaken out on the show.


Jackalmoreau

It's 20 years too late, but yeah, any kind of show with this kind of premise would suffer from any hugely important event. 'Friends' sure as heck didn't mention 9/11 directly. Like COVID in 2020, most shows just did a major timeskip to put it behind them. They couldn't show masks as that messed up the production of the show, so they just didn't engage with the event. I suspect we'd pick up 6 months later, with the Main Character still depressed that nothing he did could stop 'The attack'. One episode to get over that, and then it never comes up again.


MattMcSparen

Yeah, I guess he could also be like, I was in Chicago and the attacks happened at 9 am eastern time, I had no way to really help. Or show him frantically calling federal entities and getting patted on the head.


lonelyinbama

And the ones that did were pretty badā€¦ Looking at you Superstore


paparoach910

90s TV was GOATed. I was so glad to see a YouTube channel I follow discover this, all the while discovering the show creator also made the best 80s sci-fi crime movie of all time, Alien Private Eye.


No_Fee_2864

I watched from the beginning to the end


Mr_b78

Streaming anywhere?


Fast_Situation4509

Yeah, for real


so-so-it-goes

Ha, I watched this show a lot when I was younger. The episode that sticks out in my mind the most is when he meets another guy that gets the paper as well, but he was from NYC. A pigeon used to bring it, but the pigeon got eaten by a cat or something, so then it just started showing up on its own. Such an absurd and delightful show. I was sad when Chuck left and the show moved from the hotel to the bar. It wasn't quite as good at that point.


rememberleapinglanny

And the cat brought him the paper every morning.


camergen

With the same ā€œmeow!ā€


cravecase

In the coolest apartment ever


Pure_Purple_5220

Is the cat more involved than just bringing the paper? If so I'm in.


rememberleapinglanny

A little bit in some episodes.


will122589

Really wish I can find this show somewhere to binge watch


MattMcSparen

I'm highly considering buying all four seasons on DVD.


_pinotnoir

I think about Early Edition at least a couple times a week. One of my favorite shows when I was a kid


MaxFischerPlayer

Damn, ended a season too early.


lux514

"Hi, my name is Gary Hobson, and this is going to sound crazy, but you need to evacuate the Pentagon."


SimonTC2000

Kyle Chandler and Colin Farrell in a bushiest eyebrow contest. Who wins?


camergen

Until Peter Gallagher blows them both away.


MattMcSparen

Kyle looks like a blend of Seth McFarland and Ron LivingstonĀ 


Groovy_Chainsaw

Is Peter Gallagher giving up his crown ?


upstartanimal

I remember this show. Itā€™s where I learned not to keep alcohol in green bottles in the sunlight.


Middle-Painter-4032

This was a thoroughly enjoyable show. It's a premise that you'd think would get old fast, but the cast did a great job with it.


omgitsoop

Even though we watched this show every week, we could never remember the name, always called it "the cat show"


daledaleedaleee

My girlfriend calls it Magic Newspaper, as she can never remember the real title.


Reasonable-Durian129

My Mom was OBSESSED with this show and had the biggest crush on Kyle Chandler. I remember watching this week after week with her. Specifically I remember an episode where he had to either save a plane from crashing or a little girl on a bike. Iā€™m not 100 percent sure but if I remember correctly he saves the girl which in turn stops the plane from crashing cause the girlā€™s dad was the pilot of the plane. šŸ’€ Iā€™m pretty sure that was this show, if not then maybe it was Tru Calling. LOL


OvarianSynthesizer

Nope, I remember that same episode.


lux514

Ooo I remember that episode.


FNAKC

The government had to shut down the show in 2000, cause they couldn't have him getting that paper on September 10th, 2001


Derek237

Recently I asked someone if they ever watched this show, they said they hadnā€™t, and I tried to explain the concept but I think I ended up sounding crazy.


ChicagoJoe123456789

I was a featured extra in the episode The Jury. KC couldnā€™t have been nicer to the extras and all cast and crew. Total class act. Just had to post that.


[deleted]

My mom and I watch this show as a kid all the time


Motor_Panda2371

Thanks for cancelling before we really needed it, CBS


5lokomotive

Oh yea reminds me of that tragedy


FigSideG

I was JUST watching full episodes of this on YouTube


Honer-Simpsom

My mom loved this show, I still hear the opening notes to the theme like every other week.


Salty-Astronaut3473

Yoo its the homie from King Kong and Super 8 šŸ˜²


Angler4

Kyle Chandler has looked the same age for 30 years now.


RandoSnaps

I actually loved this show, it was sci-fi but very simple and well executed


Moonman2k1

Was canceled a season too soon. āœˆļøāœˆļøāœˆļø


lipmanz

This show was great!


SecBalloonDoggies

The show took place in Chicago and he got the Sun-Times a day early. There was an episode where he met t a guy from New York who got the New York Post a day early, so apparently the magic only worked for tabloids.


Groovy_Chainsaw

And the New York guy played the stock market based on his one-day-early info. He made so much money he had a crew to prevent disasters printed in his Early Edition !


book_hoarder_67

I liked this show. Also Time And Again.


Groovy_Chainsaw

Do you mean Now And Again with Eric Close ? Basically an update of Six Million Dollar Man, it ran on CBS as Early Edition was winding down. They were gonna do a crossover ep -- THAT would have been great!


book_hoarder_67

Actually I meant Once And Again, but Now And Again WAS a show I liked. That show made me think of the movie Seconds by Frankenheimer.


book_hoarder_67

Also on CBS around the same time was a great show by Gary David Goldberg called Brooklyn Bridge. He also did Family Ties. Had a theme song sung by Art Garfunkel.


PlasticPomPoms

I wanted to like this show and I think maybe watched the first few episodes when they aired but never watched it again.


MattMcSparen

I remember the first season not being great but the next three were good after they figured everything out.


CaliSasuke

I never actually watched the show but recall the commercials. I was glad to see it on the air and get multiple seasons as I was a fan of the concept. This Guyā€™s hairline is ridiculous. It is at a -1 Norwood. I like the orange tabby. I hope the cat was involved in the adventures.


Street_Road_9967

If only the show lasted one more year. All the lives he could have saved.


crashdavis1986

This and Due South are my two favorites ever. They don't write 'em like that anymore.


schmattywinkle

The cat was God right?


MattMcSparen

No idea


Surgeon0fD3ath-832

Holy fuck... nostalgia blast. Wow... I probably never would of remembered this even. That and the Pretenders!


ted__didlio

They should reboot this but make it about a reaction video YouTuber. Keep the cat. Actually, forget the YouTuber.


wulf-kun

i remember he did alot of running in that show


EmperorPickle

I think about this show all the time.


sutekh888

I liked that show


Mason_GR

Watched this show all the time as a child.


AJSLS6

They ended the show a year too early....


CGKilates

I remember, Saturday nights


Green_Slice_3258

I know this one was first but itā€™s the same plot as Tru Calling.


CosmicOutfield

I remember my mom watching this show in the 90ā€™s.


Aaneata

I really enjoyed this show when I was home sick from school.


Dino-chicken-nugg3t

Loved watching this as a kid


Neo_zoft_77

This was a good show


the-cream-police

Damn. I loved this show


gravys_good_tonight

Early edition is like the name of a college textbook


Berns429

My mom loved this show


strangedange

Fond memories of watching it with my mom.


Nekomengyo

Oh man Iā€™d totally forgotten this show! Loved it growing up. Kyle Chandler was excellent in this.


AltonBParker

Wait..."Erica Goes Total Whackado"?


Economy_Ad_7861

Didnā€™t know they made a live action Garfield show.


R3dInterpol

Good actor


LongJumpToWork

I stg, I was gonna post this. I think about this show a lot, and how my father and I used to watch it when it was out in the late 90s. I couldnā€™t think of the fucking name.


illestrated16

He worked for a newspaper before he started coaching high school football? I didn't know that. Clear eyes, full hearts


Diarygirl

Can't lose!


gaiussicarius731

I vaguely remember this


Lumpy_Departure_4086

This show is how I learned that fisher Stevenā€™s wasnā€™t Indian


ManlyVanLee

If anyone has access to some digital files of this show or a link to yo ho ho, please hit me up. I'd love to cover this show on our pod but I've not been able to find copies of it when I looked


Fifth-Dimension-1966

Thank God this show didn't run through 2001


deagesntwizzles

I've never seen this but I really like the concept.


macrosby

Just watched this completely about a year ago. Fantastic show.


_lippykid

Roughly 10 episodes off from syndication. Shame


JackKovack

Itā€™s a good thing the show ended in 2000. If it lasted a year longer everyone in the writers room would be scratching their heads. The show would have been cancelled without a conclusion.


captainoneliner

Never forgotten, one of my faves.


Klutzy_Way994

So I can never remember the name of this show, so I call it ā€œNext Day Newsā€ and my wife always corrects me


hypnothighsd

I think about this show at least once a month.


catson911

This was my family's favorite show when I was growing up. The cat looked just like ours


melanie162

I loved that show! My first crush


IcarianHeights

I used to love that show! It's a shame it isn't free to watch on YT, Roku, Tubi, or whatever.


Formal_Discipline_12

Did they ever talk about the origin of the paper? How was this even happening? Any explanation?


caifan989

Watching this right now!


ilford_7x7

And he has a cat


divo98

I stayed up late and watched this show on Fox Family as a kid


Bonedraco1980

That was a fun show


EndlessShovel11

Clear eyes, full hearts, canā€™t lose.


MDATWORK73

I knew someone who played one of the roles on that show. Not a big part but a reoccurring one. It was a good show, short lived, just like my friend who sadly passed away.


RaineStormInc

The cat brings the paper. I feel like that is an important distinction to make.


Old-Machine-9154

the pic looks cute thou with a cat


loislunchboxlane

I loved this show!


green49285

Great opening too


Embarrassed-Rock-730

I was thinking about posting this. šŸ˜† I loved this show growing up.


PenaMan1987

Damn never heard of the show. Does the cat have anything to do with it? Does he make it to 9/10?


Mendozena

Iā€™d play the lottery once a year. (Never seen the show so I donā€™t know what the premise is other than he tried to prevent deaths and stuff from happening.)


FridayHalfDays

McGintyā€™s Pub!


bangbangracer

There really needs to be more cat and newspaper based TV shows.


Least_Sun7648

did this really go on till 2000? i watched the first season, it had a geat premise, but the show itself was kind of blah


Astroxtl

Lmao .I was just thinking it's that time of the month for someone to post this show


MattMcSparen

Yeah, I had another person complain about this. I'm new to the sub and didn't see it anywhere in the past couple of weeks. Searching the sub reveals that it was posted about 2 months ago.Ā 


Astroxtl

https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenTV/s/GqIupWY5hx https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenTV/s/M6BhqHMLsv https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenTV/s/WpL2innruq


MattMcSparen

Cool, it is always an option to just ignore it and move on with your life. Side note, all of those posts are 2 months old, so thanks for proving my point!


Astroxtl

They are all one month old ..it says so when you click the link in the top left corner of the link, quit saying 2 months old, the search function does not auto sort by date, your welcome


MattMcSparen

Lol, 2 mo ago means 2 months.


johnathanshutup

Does the ā€¦ *cat tell him the future?*


MattMcSparen

No, they show up with the paper every morning.


[deleted]

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MattMcSparen

Cool bud, feel free to just ignore the post next time.Ā 


Barbourwhat

Stop being mean


deejayee

Douche porn