

Headroom: 2:3 M.) There follows an adventure tale involving a corrupt television network overstimulating viewers to death with super-short subliminal commercials called “ blipverts. (The last thing he saw before an automobile accident that read Max. His first appearance was in a 1985 dystopian comedy for British television, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into The Future, in which a television journalist played by Frewer named Edison Carter gets his consciousness cloned and uploaded into an AI wacky television host named Max Headroom. While the image of Max Headroom is likely familiar to most, the origin of this character can get a little murky.

(Stream Mandy or, better yet, The Greasy Strangler, if you dare.) While a reboot of an old “oh, I know that!” IP can often lead to rolled eyes, anyone who has seen a SpectreVision project knows this group comes correct. Halt and Catch Fire co-creator Christopher Cantwell, working with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah’s company SpectreVision, will bring the series to AMC. It consists of material originally planned to be broken into five-minute backstory segments for The Max Headroom Show, later expanded to one hour. Max Headroom, the perplexing fictional character played by Matt Frewer in a variety of television forms, is coming back, as per an announcement in Deadline. Max Headroom debuted in the British-made cyberpunk TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, which was broadcast on 4 April 1985. Grab your floppy discs, crank the Duran Duran, and crack open some ice cold New Coke.
