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The Max Headroom Show is a television series that debuted in the UK in 1985. It was produced by Carlton TV and aired on Channel 4, with an initial series of 13 shows. It featured actor Matt Frewer playing the role of pseudo-computer-generated talk-show host Max Headroom.
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Max Headroom is an American satirical cyberpunk [1][2][3][4][5] science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 31, 1987, to May 5, 1988.
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Concept
With the rising popularity of music videos with youth culture, and stations such as MTV, Channel 4 hosted a music video programme. Rocky Morton was tasked to develop a graphic to play before and after the videos, clarifying to audiences these were features of a special show and not just random music videos between TV advertisements. Taking inspiration from MTV video jockeys (VJs) and US TV hosts, Morton decided a graphic or "bumper video" would not appeal to youth nearly as much as a host wit...
Production
The character's classic look is a shiny dark suit often paired with Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses. (The sunglasses look was adopted when the special bright contacts Frewer was wearing would become painful to wear.) Other than the publicity for the character, the real image of Max was not computer-generated. Computing technology in the mid-1980s was not sufficiently advanced yet for a full-motion, voice-synchronized human head to be practical for a television series. Max's image is actually that...
TV movie
Max Headroom debuted in the British-made cyberpunk TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, which was broadcast on 4 April 1985. It consists of material originally planned to be broken into five-minute backstory segments for The Max Headroom Show, later expanded to one hour. Set in a near future world, it focuses on Edison Carter(Frewer), a crusading and witty journalist who openly challenges the corporations that rule the world, including his own employer Station 23. Max Headroom i...
The Max Headroom Show series
Premiering on 6 April 1985, it features music videos with Max Headroom as video jockey (VJ or "veejay"). Early episodes unusually feature no introductory title sequence or end credits, beginning and ending instead with a cold open of static as if Max Headroom is hijacking the broadcast signal to speak to the audience. Channel 4 advertised Max as the "first computer-generated TV presenter" and Matt Frewer was initially under contract to withhold his identity in the role. Many believed Max was...
Dramatic Max Headroom series
American TV network ABC acquired the rights to create an ongoing series titled Max Headroom. Rather than a music program, this is a prime time dramatic series based on the story and concepts of the original TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future. By this time, it was known to the general public that Max was not a computer generated character or puppet but rather actor Matt Frewer in prosthetics, so press for the show openly spoke of him as a lead cast member in both roles of Max He...
Max made celebrity cameos and sampled appearances in other TV series, books, the Art of Noise song "Paranoimia" and its video (which became a top-40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100), and advertisement campaigns. He was the spokesman for New Coke (after the return of Coca-Cola Classic), delivering the slogan "Catch the wave!" (in his staccato, stutteri...
Max Headroom has inspired many imitations and spoofs: 1. During a montage of main characters Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane in the opening sequence of the 2002 Daria movie Is It College Yet?, Max Headroom appears on a poster. 2. Late Night with David Letterman (Max Headroom's US network television debut), parodied the concept with their own char...
Bishop, Bryan (2015). Live and direct: The definitive oral history of 1980s digital icon Max Headroom, The VergeThe Max Headroom Show: With Sting, Matt Frewer, Roger Daltrey, Boy George. Showcases Max Headroon, the artificial intelligence program with a speech impediment, as he gets to host his own talk show.
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Apr 2, 2015 · On Thursday, April 4th, 1985, a blast of dystopian satire hit the UK airwaves. Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future was a snarky take on media and corporate greed, told through the...
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Max Headroom: With Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays, George Coe, Chris Young. In the near future, an intrepid investigative TV reporter does his job with the help of his colleagues and a computerized version of himself.
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Jun 22, 2023 · First introduced to audiences through the British-made Channel 4 cyberpunk TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, which aired in April 1985, the film functioned as the origin...
