![]() Even for people who’d never watched any of the actual Max Headroom shows, it was difficult to avoid the character. He was parodied in Back to The Future Part II, the newspaper strip Doonesbury, and on Late Night with David Letterman. While all of this was going on, Max started showing up elsewhere: he had a top 40 hit with the band Art of Noise, he had his own video game, and he was the spokesperson for a New Coke ad campaign. (In fact, the ABC Max Headroom show is often referred to as the first cyberpunk TV series.) In this new series, simply titled Max Headroom, Max co-existed with the investigative journalist whose brain patterns he’d been modeled upon, also played by Frewer the two existed in a dystopian near-future that was clearly informed by the then-new cyberpunk fiction of the likes of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. That wasn’t the end of the character, however the final episodes of the Original Talking Max Headroom show actually overlapped with the first episodes of an ABC remake of the original 20 Minutes Into The Future movie, expanded into a full-length series. Martin – yes, really – but an American version of the show, titled The Original Talking Max Headroom Show, which ran for six episodes on cable channel Cinemax. The Max Headroom show aired in the UK until 1987, becoming popular enough to spin off not only a Christmas special written by none other than George R.R. Here's a trailer for the original Max Headroom series: ![]() He debuted in a 1985 British television movie titled Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into The Future, which acted as an origin story for the buggy, pop culture obsessed artificial intelligence ahead of his appearance as host of The Max Headroom show, a pastiche of contemporary chat shows that featured the character – played by Matt Frewer – interviewing celebrities in a studio setting, from the comfort of his very own television set importantly, program makers publicly said that Max was an entirely computer-generated character, with Frewer’s involvement kept secret for some time until after the show’s launch. It’s time to return to 20 minutes in the future, with the news that AMC Networks is planning a revival of '80s science fiction television property Max Headroom, with Halt and Catch Fire co-creator (and current writer of Marvel’s Iron Man comic book series) Christopher Cantwell as showrunner.įor those too young to remember, Max Headroom was a genuine pop culture phenomenon in the ‘80s. ![]()
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