# Max Headroom **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-headroom/272107 "2004-10-31T02:38:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji_Kitakyusho)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-headroom/272107/1 "2004-10-31T02:38:03Z")
Information I could find on the 'net is sketchy, but there was some allusion to an attempt by Matt Frewer to bring this character back in a new project - which would be too cool for words, but I’m wondering if anyone knows what happened to that? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-headroom/272107/2 "2004-10-31T03:21:12Z")
I for one would be satisfied with a DVD release of both the ABC series and the HBO talk show, or at least the ABC series. The frightening thing about Max Headroom is not that it accurately predicted the future of television, it’s that television has left MH’s predictions in its dust. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-headroom/272107/3 "2004-10-31T03:40:14Z")
The main TV-related thing MH predicted: station logos in the corner of the screen. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-headroom/272107/4 "2004-10-31T04:10:41Z")
Don’t you mean M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-Max Head-Head-Head-Headroo-Head-d-d-d-d-droom ? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-headroom/272107/5 "2004-10-31T04:32:26Z")
On a semi-related note, Matt Frewer once said: “So people were trying to pronounce my name, and I said ‘It’s like Brewer with an F’ so they started calling me Brewerf…” ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-headroom/272107/6 "2004-10-31T09:41:22Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > The main TV-related thing MH predicted: station logos in the corner of the screen. They also predicted reality TV IIRC, only the things MH suggested as beyond the pale of what TV would ever do are, today, pretty routine. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/max-headroom/272107/7 "2004-10-31T15:18:56Z")
I have nearly all of the episodes on VHS somewhere. (I taped them when they were shown.) I think the onlyone I’m missing is the one with the video headstones. I still say, ‘Isn’t it wunnerful?’ from time to time. 😉 I also frequently quote Blank Reg: ‘A non-volatile, random-access storage medium! A _book!_’ Amanda Pays was a hottie; but my opinion of her dropped a bit when she said in a contemporary interview, ‘People hate me because I’m beautiful.’ :rolleyes: