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From: oleg@quad1.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: Max Headroom bites the dust
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 12:34:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 12:34:29 1987
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Reply-To: oleg@quad1.quad.com (Oleg Kiselev)
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In article <4482@spool.wisc.edu> bart@speedy.WISC.EDU (Bart Miller) writes:
>Apparently, Max Headroom is going off the air.

It is true, Max Headroom got canned.

>Middle america just wasn't ready for a bit of creative thought.  Let's all
>toast the victory of Miami Lice.

The fault was with the network.  They should have never scheduled MH opposite
of the heavy Friday-night earners like the prime-time soaps.  And, according
to a TV guru friend of mine, Friday prime-time is known to be among the worst
possible slots to schedule SF.
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