Where have all the good shows gone.......
Added 3/6/2010
Where HAVE all the good shows gone, Police Squad, Sledge Hammer, and Ma..ma..Max Headroom. It only goes to show you that the poeple that run the airways are the true power in America. The take the true comedies off and throw on crap like The Bachalor or Survivor....or worse...Dancing with the Stars. TV the way it is today is the reason i watch Basic Channels like History and Discovery.
Save my soul, people, put Max Headroom on DVD...or better yet, Blu Ray
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It's finally coming out on DVD! - 10th August 2010
Added 2/27/2010
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Los Angeles, CA - Shout! Factory and Warner Home Video, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc., announced a multi-property alliance to bring the highly anticipated Warner Bros. television series Max Headroom and The Norm Show to the home entertainment marketplace. Under its multi-year agreement with Warner Home Video, Shout! Factory will be the exclusive media company to distribute Max Headroom and The Norm Show DVDs for home entertainment releases in the United States and Canada. The announcement was made today by Shout! Factory founding partners Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos; and Jeff Brown, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Non-theatrical Franchise Marketing for Warner Home Video.
Production has begun to develop a wide range of bonus content for Max Headroom: The Complete Series DVD box set, as well as re-transferring the episodes from the original elements to provide the highest picture quality.
"Max Headroom is a uniquely sought-after television property, boasting a large fan following and consumer interests. We have been pursuing this property with Warner Bros. for years, and we're thrilled that it's finally coming to fruition," state Shout! Factory founding partners. "We're pop culture fanatics at Shout!, and both of these shows are loved by fans of TV and are highly requested. We'll do them justice with great extras and packaging."
"It's a privilege to partner with Shout! Factory, and we look forward to combining our efforts to bring these two highly-regarded television programs to the home entertainment audience," said Brown. He added, "We look forward with anticipation to the opportunity of creating a series of releases that will be innovative, original and stand out in the home entertainment market place."
Starring Matt Frewer, W. Morgan Sheppard, Jeffrey Tambor and Amanda Pays, the U.S. television series Max Headroom, inspired by a British made-for-television movie 20 Minutes into the Future, aired on ABC from 1987-1988. Hailed by critics and fans as one of the most innovative science fiction series ever produced for American television, Max Headroom is considered to be the first cyberpunk television series, bolstered by its innovative premise, brilliant writing and fast-paced visual style. Unafraid to explore any subject, no matter how controversial, the series cynically tackles topical issues from the general television industry such as the exploitation of the TV ratings games, political advertising, tele-evangelism, news coverage and commercials. The world of Max Headroom is a satirically funny look at television of the not-too-distant future. There are 4,000 TV channels, cameras are everywhere, television sets can't be shut off, ratings have been perfected to the point where programming decisions are made minute by minute, and Network 23, the ratings leader, is headed by a man who would literally kill for ratings. Enter investigative reporter Edison Carter and his alter ego, the first computer-simulated multi-media star, Max Headroom, played by Matt Frewer. Max Headroom is a production of Chrysalis/Lakeside in association with Lorimar Telepictures.
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It's scheduled for release on August 10th this year
Let's hope that they also include the original British film made for Channel 4 in 1985.
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I want my, I want my, I want my Max Headroom! (sorry Dire Straits)
Added 2/2/2010
I wish that Warner Bros. would put out the complete U.S. version on DVD, too, but at this rate it might have to go Blu-ray(yeech). I have a nice collection of DVD's already, thank you very much. My brother liked MH and managed to (VHS) tape "Blipverts," "Rakers," and "Body Banks." He has the rest somewhere but couldn't find them last time I bugged him (years ago). Wikipedia has a nice breakdown of the show with episode guide, I just checked there today. The show was on in the summer and I remember seeing only bits of it (too busy). After watching his taped episodes a few years later, I was amazed. This was a very pretty insightful and stinging show and I loved it. In the past, my focus had been on Max (the alter-ego) since I came in halfway throught most shows so I had no other point of reference. After seeing the whole story, I couldn't wait to see the next taped one. Guess I am out of luck there. MGM and Nickelodeon are also being sticks in the mud about putting old shows on DVD. I finally bought a bootlegged copy of the complete "You Can't Do That on TV" show a few years back, out of pure frustration. The sound is good but the picture quality is grainy (or worse) at times. As a result, I would recommend people share their original taped copies of shows, like my brother, for the best quality but how people can do that when VHS is supposed to be "dead," I don't know. In the meantime, I still have a working VHS player in my "old" analog (gov. converter box adjusted) TV and can still watch some MH until the tape, TV, or VHS component of the TV dies. Let's hope this never comes to pass...... After reading a comment posted under Valentine, I will consider the 7/10 versions. They appear to be my best opinion, in the long. (Sigh of relief) Thanks.
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Some shows are destined for obscurity; others have obscurity thrust upon them...
Added 12/8/2009
The annals of television history overflow with completely forgettable efforts, and dishearteningly, more are released each year. Very few shows make an impression when they are new and fresh and heralded as the Next Big Thing. Even fewer shows remain memorable twenty minutes into the next show, let alone twenty minutes into the future. Max Headroom is one of those rarest of rarities, a show that makes enough of an impression to be remembered well beyond that.
A Max Headroom DVD (better yet, both American and British) is long overdue. Given Matt Frewer's renewed popularity (Eureka, The Watchmen, Syfy's Alice - hello, is anyone paying attention???) begs the question WHY has a DVD not been released?! Seems like a blatantly overlooked financial opportunity to me. You know, free market economics, supply and demand, customers standidng in line begging to be allowed to hand over our money if only the powers that be would give us what we want!
TV execs, if I'm using too many big words and complicated concepts for you, relax; the underlying message is simple: You make Max Headroom DVD, you make MONEY!
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IDIOCRACY, 20 years early and 120 IQ points higher
Added 3/26/2009
Of course, Mike Judge's film was kicked into obscure cult territory by its studio too. But MAX HEADROOM was there first, lunging for the jugular with its canny, prescient observations on the media dumbing-down of the planet.
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