
It's an early cyberpunk vision set "twenty minutes in the future" where powerful corporations rule and compete for television ratings and consumer dollars.
#MAX HEADROOM SHOW MOVIE#

I mean … the technology’s available now, isn’t it? Unless they took Frewer’s memories and subconscious, and digitally converted it into an avatarish alter ego… Frewer parlayed his stint as the digital talking head into his own long acting career, appearing in comedy shows (the sitcom Doctor, Doctor) and other sci-fi dramas ( Orphan Black, Timeless). It was way ahead of its time – heck,if this thing had aired on Syfy or BBC America it would have filmed its 300th episode right about now – but it was great for the short run it had.Īnd let’s face it – even if they did bring the show back, they’d need to get Matt Frewer into the Max Headroom costume, and that’s not happening.
#MAX HEADROOM SHOW TV#
But over time, I understood that, in all honesty, what I have is a decent short-run TV series.

I’ll tell you this much – for years, I had hoped for a reboot of Max Headroom, maybe new episodes or a theatrical release or something. One payment click later … and it was now in my possession.

Ugh.įinally, after realizing that you can’t repair broken friendships any more than you can reassemble broken plates … I found a copy of the DVD boxed set on Amazon. I was told that it landed in a Goodwill bin or was sold off for a dollar, that’s how much our friendship had deteriorated. That friendship went straight to toxic nuclear level. So much fun to watch again.Īnd then … in an effort to share the joy of watching Max Headroom with others, I lent my DVD boxed set to a friend.Ī few weeks later … we weren’t friends any more. There’s a test tomorrow.Įventually the entire series – along with interviews with most of the cast – appeared on a five-disc DVD boxed set, and I ordered it the moment it was released. Unfortunately, they created a self-conscious wisecracking sentient digital imp … whose name came from the last two words Edison Carter saw before his injury (the guardrail’s words “Max Headroom”). Fearing that the death of Carter would reveal the exploding commercial story, the network digitizes his neural implants and tries to create a digital avatar that could replace Carter to viewers. While escaping from thugs who wanted to kill him to prevent that information from spreading, Carter crashes into a guardrail and nearly dies. Edison Carter (played by Matt Frewer) was an investigative journalist on the hunt for a story about a type of television commercial that caused some viewers to spontaneously explode (wow, thirty years before Bird Box?). Yeah, you know it pulled TONS of viewers on those nights.

The show was pulled off the air, with the remaining three filmed episodes airing as summer filler on Thursday nights against The Cosby Show. Only fourteen episodes of Max Headroom ever aired – the show was an instant hit for its first six-episode season on ABC (where it followed Moonlighting in a plum Tuesday 10pm slot), but faded quickly in its second season (where network idiots moved the show to Fridays at 9pm, where it suffered from airing against Dallas and Miami Vice).
