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From: ewa@sdcc19.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: Max Headroom bites the dust
Message-ID: <156@sdcc19.ucsd.EDU>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 21:01:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 21:01:55 1987
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Reply-To: ewa@sdcc19.UUCP (Eric Anderson)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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In article <1256@quad1.quad.com> oleg@quad1.quad.com (Oleg Kiselev) writes:
>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.

I believe the original Star Trek was placed in a Friday night time-slot shortly
before NBC killed it.

We (above average people) can't really expect ABC to hang on to Max Headroom -
We're talking about a show which is both intelligent and funny (rarely does a
network offer something which is either), which makes fun of the whole tele-
vision industry and (ironic, huh?) the importance of ratings.  Oh well.

-Eric Anderson, UC San Diego      (elsewhere!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc19!ewa)