Max Headroom
Specials
TV-PG
In the near future, an intrepid investigative TV reporter does his job with the help of his colleagues and a computerized version of himself.
Where to Watch Specials
3 Episodes
- Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
E1Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the FutureIn the post-apocalyptic future where television sets are more important than food, TV ratings are the all important currency of the nation. A new technique of preventing viewers from channel surfing proves somewhat detrimental to particularly sedentary couch potatoes. The top studio becomes concerned: dead viewers make for low ratings. Edison Carter, top news reporter, is sent to find out more. After a motorcycle accident, his mind is preserved by wizz-kid Bryce and becomes his wise cracking, computer generated alter-ego: Max Headroom, who manages to boost ratings above those of any live hosts to date. This made for TV movie was later remade (sanitized version) as the first episode of the series. - Live on Network 23: The Story of Max Headroom
E2Live on Network 23: The Story of Max HeadroomThe biography of Max Headroom, including interviews with creators George Stone, Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, executive producer Peter Wagg, producer Brian Frankish and writers Steve Roberts and Michael Cassutt. - Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future - Extended Cinemax VersionE12
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future - Extended Cinemax VersionIn the post-apocalyptic future where television sets are more important than food, TV ratings are the all important currency of the nation. A new technique of preventing viewers from channel surfing proves somewhat detrimental to particularly sedentary couch potatoes. The top studio becomes concerned: dead viewers make for low ratings. Edison Carter, top news reporter, is sent to find out more. After a motorcycle accident, his mind is preserved by wizz-kid Bryce and becomes his wise cracking, computer generated alter-ego: Max Headroom, who manages to boost ratings above those of any live hosts to date.
