Early Edition

Surfing through the channels on TV today, I came across this familiar looking face on AXN… I took me a minute to realize it was the main protagonist of ‘Early Edition’.
My brother and I were regular watchers of the show when it used to be aired on Hallmark a few years back.
Gary Hobson, the central character, owns a pub, McGinty’s or something, in downtown Chicago. He’s a regular guy next door, except that he has a gift. Literally delivered to him every morning right at his doorstep: An ‘Early Edition’ of the ‘Chicago Sun Times’… the next day’s newspaper. This ‘gift’ makes Gary a little different as he sets out to avert local crimes and accidents that are reported in the paper. But while Mr. Do Good goes about saving the day, he is often lonely by the end of it, with only a few friends to turn to (and who are in on the secret) - Marissa Clark (who is also blind) and a guy named Chuck Fishman.
Early Edition was what brought Chicago to my notice and not long after when I was deputed to Schaumburg, a suburb of the ‘Windy City’, my brother was the first to remind me that I’d be visiting the ‘Early Edition’ city. It was a nostalgic experience when I actually saw the building that housed the ‘Chicago Sun Times’.