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Max Headroom, Actor, Pitchman-man-man and Talk Show Host?
- The 80's pop icon, Max Headroom, whose show is coming back on DVD, was more than just the basis for a hyper cult tech-drama and a shill for New Coke. He wore many big sh...
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'Max Headroom' Coming to DVD
- The '80s resurgence continues with the pending DVD release of 'Max Headroom', one of the most ambitious and baffling sci-fi shows to ever hit the small screen. Too yo...
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Gone Too Soon: Max Headroom
- The name "Max Headroom" comes from the last thing TV reporter Edison Carter saw before he was knocked out and hacker extraordinaire Bryce Lynch dumped his memories int...
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New Coke wasn't it
- So I hate summer and I spend most of the hot and humid days of June, July, and August sitting in front of a fan and drinking Diet Coke (and Diet Pepsi - yes, I like both...
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Welcome back, Max Headroom - VIDEO
- It's rather comforting, if a little scary, to see that even computerized icons can age a lot. Britain's Channel 4 has brought back Max Headroom, the 80s TV character tha...
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Do TV commercials work just as well if you fast forward?
- We've heard of networks doing all sorts of crazy research to prove to advertisers that PVR owners don't skip commercials as much as they pretend to. Or when they do actu...
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Eureka -- An early look
- Here's my little secret. Remember Data from The Goonies? The little Asian kid with the spring loaded teeth up his sleeves? He was my first mad scientist/inventor hero. ...
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After he is seriously injured by his corrupt employers, crusading reporter Edison Carter undergoes a procedure to digitize his mind into a computer program personified by eccentric character Max Headroom. Max's ability to move through computer and television networks freely is a huge help to Edison, who is determined to stamp out the corruption in his futuristic society.