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From: days@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP (Judge Dredd)
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Subject: Re: The Max Headroom Show
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 14:28:33 EDT
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>      The episode ends with Edison Carter's life in total question.  But
> previews of next week's, show the possiblity of the Network replacing
> Carter with one of Brice's computer simulations.

	All in all a pretty good resume, however I have some bad news. :-(.
When "Max Headroom" came out over here, it appeared to be a pilot for a series.
However, the series it is a pilot for is nothing to do with the news-crew.
	I'll try not to give too much away.

A computer simulation of Carters Brain is made with the plan of using it for
news reports. However, due to Carters accident, his brain is not functioning
properly and suffers from a severe speech impediment. The computer gets thrown
out and is found by a DJ for Channel-7, an extremly low-budget TV company which
plays pop - videos all day. Max ( The computer ) becomes a DJ, and Channel-7
becomes very popular.
	The follow-on series is a program which intersperses pop-videos with
a computer-animated head. It's rather well scripted, and worth watching, but
a bit of a disappointment to anyone expecting an sf-series.
	What I reckon you will see is the original pilot-film split into
TV-viewer-concious-timeable chunks.
-- 
Stephen Day, Comp Sci Dept, University of Glasgow, Scotland

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