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Even the government functions primarily as a puppet state of the network executives, serving mainly to pass laws - such as banning "off" switches on televisions - that protect and consolidate the networks' power.
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Max headroom imdb series#
The series is set in a futuristic dystopia ruled by an oligarchy of television networks. Among the non-original cast, Jeffrey Tambor co-starred as "Murray", Edison Carter's neurotic producer. Morgan Sheppard, joined the series as "Blank Reg" in later episodes. version series were Matt Frewer (Max Headroom/Edison Carter) and Amanda Pays (Theora Jones) a third original cast member, W. The only original cast retained for the U.S. The pilot featured plot changes and some minor visual touches, but retained the same basic storyline. The film was re-shot as a pilot program for a new series broadcast by the U.S.-based ABC television network.
Max headroom imdb movie#
In 1987, the story told in Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, a made-for-television movie shot in 1985, formed the basis of a drama television series. The show went into production in late 1986 and ran for six episodes in the first season with eight being produced in season two. ABC took an interest in the pilot and asked Chrysalis/Lakeside to produce the series for American audiences. Cinemax aired the UK pilot followed by a six-week run of highlights from The Max Headroom Show, a music video show where Headroom appears between music videos. The series is often mistaken as an American-produced show due to the setting and its use of an almost entirely American cast along with being broadcast in the United States on the ABC network. The series was based on the Channel 4 British TV pilot produced by Chrysalis, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future.
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Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988.