According to a blurb on Sci Fi Wire there’s a chance that one of my favorite short-lived TV series may be making a comeback:
Matt Frewer told a chat on SCIFI.COM that he’s trying to resurrect his most famous character: Max Headroom. “We’re putting together a deal on a new Max Headroom project,” Frewer told fans. “Then I’m doing a film with my brother. The Headroom project is still in the deal-making process, so I can’t say anything about it.”
I always felt the original series was canceled before it ever had a chance to really take off so I’m geeked at the possibility of the show returning. Here’s hoping.
Ahhhhh…happy holidays to the geeks among us!
I loved Max Headroom! It was so different. I like different! Kinda like that show Prey. Sigh.
Sweeet!!! I loved Max Headroom – I’ve even got the pilot episode on a store bought tape (the BBC one), a Max Headroom book, and a ton of the old episodes on tape that I can’t bring myself to erase!
Would be nice to see Matt back in the Max Headroom garb, probably a full size version of him too, not just head and shoulders!!
Yay! Big Time Television! Blank Is Beautiful!
Oh, please let it be so!
EG, hard to say. I posted this back in 2002 and I’ve not heard anything further about it since.
I loved Max Headroom
Would be nice to see Matt in the Max Headroom
Max Headroom It was so different
heard anything further about it making a comeback
Is thar a sound bites site ?
Wow – I’m only FOUR years late on this one! And I consider myself a HUGE Max Headroom fan too. Better late than never, right?
I’m just going to geek out a little, so if you’re reading this four more years from now, drop me a line to say “Hel-hel-hel-hel-hel… hi there!”
Max Headroom, the character, drew my interest immediately. First saw him in the Coke commercials. I actually thought he was computer generated at first – they fooled me until I read an article about it back in ‘86 or so. Real computer animation or not, Max ROCKED! I even went as Max for Halloween in 1986.
Max Headroom the one-hour TV series was awesome! It was so odd, so strange, so different and there was this whole bizarre society built around network television, etc. Though the American TV series lacked some of the grit that the original British film had, I still loved it and thought it was ingenious. I couldn’t get enough of the character, or the TV show… and as quickly as it came, it just vanished! WTF! And STILL no Max Headroom on DVD – WTF, WTF! I still have most of the original episodes on the original VHS tapes I recorded them on (as I knew the show wouldn’t last back then – it was WAY too cool to last), but I haven’t dug them out in at least 10 years – not sure how well they look now.
I’ve often wondered about how a Max Headroom revival might work… or might not work. Max was ahead of his time when he came out (more than just 20 minutes), but could the same concept hold up today? To us Max Headroom fans, absolutely YES! 😀 But what about making new fans? Would they need to change up things? If so, how much? That is what I fear – the changes the come up with would make Max anything but Max-like for me. I would totally dig if they could venture back in to the strange society that Max Headroom inhabited in his original TV series, but doubt they’d do that. Looks like it isn’t going anywhere anyway. I guess we’ll never know.
Max Headroom will always be one of the coolest things to come out of the 80’s. He left us too quickly though and I miss *new* Max material. But I’d settle for his release on DVD.
This concludes TheReelTodd’s mini-geek-out about Max Headroom. Long live Network 23… where I’m sure Edison Carter is STILL putting out award winning reporting… and Max Headroom is still interrupting him with something fun, odd, and off the wall!
Here‘s the UK pilot of Max Headroom.
Max doesn’t appear until quite late in this rather dark movie.
Here, I’m presuming, is one of the earlier US episodes.
Except the advent of the mouse apparently, although Clifford did make an appearance.
Most sequels don’t work and I doubt this’d be any different – Max was so close to the edge a sequel would surely fall off.
I think I’ll live with YouTube reruns.
I’ve been watching some Max Headroom stuff I didn’t know existed.
I’ve reconsidered – they could do something with it IF (a big one) they retained the simplicity of computers in the mid 80s.
Bummer. There are no more 45 minute programmes to watch.
I just watched the above pissed and stoned – it sure is different.
It even has some of the madness elements of Fear and Loathing.
It see, see, sounds bi, bi, bi, better if you can thi, thi, thi, imagine Ma, Ma, Ma, Max Headroom say, say, say, speaking the words.

Forget it; if you’re not piss’d ‘n ripped, we’re AWOL.