The Edge (TV series)

The Edge
Genre	Variety Comedy
Created by	David Mirkin
Written by	Julie Brown Jasper Cole David Mirkin Charlie Kaufman Nancy Neufeld Callaway
Directed by	Peter Baldwin Steve Klayman David Mirkin Rob Schiller
Starring	Julie Brown Tom Kenny Jennifer Aniston Wayne Knight Jill Talley Carol Rosenthal James Stephens III
Narrated by	Edd Hall
Theme music composer	Steve Hampton
Composer(s)	Stephen Graziano B.C. Smith Christopher Tyng
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	18
Production
Executive producer(s)	David Mirkin
Co-executive producer(s)	David J. Latt
Producer(s)	Julie Brown Charlie Singer
Associate producer(s)	Bernice Kenton
Co-producer(s)	Tracey Ormandy
Running time	22 mins.
Broadcast
Original channel	FOX
Original run	September 19, 1992 – April 11, 1993

The Edge is an American sketch comedy television series created by David Mirkin which ran on the FOX Network from 1992 to 1993.

[edit] Synopsis

The series featured an ensemble cast headed by comedienne Julie Brown. Other cast members included Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants), Jennifer Aniston (NBC's Friends), and Wayne Knight (Seinfeld and several animated series). The Edge also featured the talents of Carol Rosenthal (formerly of In Living Color). Other regulars of the series included James Stephens III, Jill Talley, Rick Overton, Paul Feig, and Alan Ruck.

The show featured sketches that would revolve around original characters such as gun-toting All-American family and a cowboy known as Cracklin' Crotch. But the series would also skewer pop culture. One notable episode spoofed TV sweeps by promising ratings-grabbing events such as a birth, a wedding and a death.

The series also featured a running gag in which the entire cast would get killed off in various ways in each episode before the first commercial break. One episode featured the cast getting hit by a bus; another had the set falling apart and crushing them; others involved explosions, decapitations, immolation, hangings, and impalement by arrows; one episode had the troupe being sucked into a vortex. In addition to sketches, Bill Plympton cartoons were used as bumpers between the sketches.

The series was short lived and was canceled after 18 episodes.

[edit] Production notes

Series creator and director David Mirkin, also a writer and producer for Newhart, Get a Life, and The Simpsons, created another series for Brown entitled The Julie Show.

Music was provided by Steve Hampton (theme song composer), Stephen Graziano, B.C. Smith, and Christopher Tyng among others.

Edd Hall (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno) provided the show's voiceovers.

[edit] External links

• The Edge at the Internet Movie Database
• The Edge at TV.com
• The Edge at Jump the Shark