Early Edition (1996): A Hit Show, A Cat & A Network Mistake

Our latest episode looks at the history and making of the Early Edition TV series, and how a simple idea about tomorrow’s newspaper became one of CBS’s strangest 90s hits. What started as a clever pitch about one bloke getting the next day’s news quickly turned into a Saturday night drama with a magic newspaper, a ginger cat, and a lead character trying to stop disasters before they happened. With early ratings success, cast changes, shifting narration, crossovers, cancellations, fan campaigns, delayed DVD releases, and a reboot that never made it past the pilot stage, Early Edition had a much stranger run than people remember. Sources: Wikipedia IMDB LA Times Rotten Tomatoes EW SF Gate Washington Post Screen Rant Variety TV Insider BuzzFeed Buy The Complete Set On Amazon: https://amzn.to/4vRYUtr Link is affiliated All audiovisual content is the © copyright of their respective owners and studios. All clips are used under FAIR USE Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, documentary and research. DoubleReelTV:    / @doublereeltv   DoubleReel:    / @doublereelmedia   DoubleReelOriginals:    / @doublereeloriginals   DoubleReelGR:    / @doublereelgr