
Scripted series · CBS
Early Edition
What if you had tomorrow's news... TODAY?
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
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TV DNA
How Early Edition actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Early Edition reads strongest on Character Depth, World Building and Humour.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news?
The run
Seasons
4 seasons · 90 episodes.

Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
199623 episodes
7.8IMDbBest episode · S01E15 The Wall (2)

Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
199722 episodes
8.3IMDbBest episode · S02E16 Where or When

Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
199823 episodes
8.0IMDbBest episode · S03E14 Just one of Those Things

Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
199922 episodes
8.2IMDbBest episode · S04E14 Performance Anxiety
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S01E09
His Girl Thursday
Meredith is back. She wants to pick things up with Gary where they left last time they met. But the paper seems to be in the way of Gary developing anything deeper with her, since he doesn't want her to have access to it. She promises not to read it, but Chuck walks in on her reading the paper. They make a deal, and Chuck wins over 15 million in the stock market. He gets in trouble and steals the paper to lose the 15 million, but Gary thinks Meredith stole it. After reconciliation, Meredith leaves for Washington.
- Directed by Stephen Cragg

S01E07
After Midnight
Gary has to stop a 17 year-old single mother from abandoning her child. But as always, Gary gets more involved with her than he should, and finds out she left home pregnant and now works for a drug dealer. Meanwhile, Chuck uses the paper to get a date with an attractive woman he had to share a cab with.
- Directed by Michael Toshiyuki Uno
- Written by Deborah Joy LeVine

S01E02
The Choice
Gary must choose between stopping a fatal plane crash or saving the life of one girl.
- Directed by Michael Dinner
- Written by John Romano, Bob Brush

S01E01
Pilot
After being kicked out of his house by his wife, Gary Hobson is forced to move into a hotel room. It's a regular Monday morning - apart from a mysterious newspaper that is delivered to his door by an even more mysterious orange cat. At first, Gary doesn't pay much attention to the newspaper but, after a while, he realises that it isn't a regular newspaper, it's tomorrow's.
- Directed by Michael Dinner
- Written by Bob Brush

S01E04
The Paper
While searching for answers about the paper, Gary becomes involved with a reporter who is suspicious of his apparent knowledge of a certain story.

S01E10
The Wrong Man
Gary has to stop a man from his old office from killing himself. Marcia visits him with the news that she's getting married. She won't reveal the identity of her soon-to-be husband, but Gary finds out it's Phil Pritchard, his old jerky boss. Gary is not happy about it and a series of accidents make it look like he's trying to purposely hurt Pritchard and get in the way of their wedding. When the paper brings the headline that Pritchard is going to be murdered, Gary refuses to help him, but Chuck convinces him to do so. He also must stop Sam (the office mailboy for the past 9 years) from killing Pritchard.
- Directed by David Hugh Jones
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Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Ian Abrams
Showrunner
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Vik Rubenfeld
Creator
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Patrick Q. Page
Creator

Jeff Pinkner
Writer

John Romano
Writer
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Diane Messina Stanley
Writer
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Lawrence Meyers
Writer
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Doris Egan
Writer
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James Stanley
Writer
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Alex Taub
Writer
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Dusty Kay
Writer

Deborah Joy LeVine
Writer
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Patrick Sean Clark
Writer
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Bob Brush
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Michael DinnerProducer
- Richard HeusProducer
- Bob BrushProducer
Writing
- Jeff PinknerWriter
- John RomanoWriter
- Diane Messina StanleyWriter
- Lawrence MeyersWriter
- Doris EganWriter
- James StanleyWriter
Direction
- Sandor SternDirector
- Michael Toshiyuki UnoDirector
- Robert GintyDirector
- Jim CharlestonDirector
- Susan SeidelmanDirector
- Julia RaskDirector
Recognition
Awards
1 win
Saturn Awards
1 win · latest 1997
- WinnerSaturn Award for Best Actor on Television1997
Early Edition · Early Edition
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