#Max headroom tv series tv#
The TV sets themselves do not turn off, and the programming is designed to keep. He was a decade-defining icon, never better represented than in this sardonically witty, adventurous look at society and the place of media within it. It is the day after tomorrow, and television networks rule the planet. After his “accident,” his mind is uploaded to create the world’s first self-aware, computer-generated TV host: Max Headroom! But will Max bow to his creators? Or will he be the key to his human alter ago bringing down a network superpower? Able to boast his own international talk show, music videos, countless endorsements and merchandising, the puckish Max Headroom became more than just a character on television. So when Network 23s star reporter, Edison Carter, uncovers a deadly secret that could shake up the dominion the station has over its viewers, the only option is to eliminate Carter before he can make his story public.
It was his usual spot during Channel 9’s Nine O’Clock News segment, one he had been doing for years, always the same. 22, 1987, Chicago sportscaster Dan Roan was covering the highlights of the Bears’ recent victory over the Detroit Lions.
Whoever controls the airwaves controls the dystopic world in which they broadcast. The Max Headroom hack came entirely out of the blue. The Max Headroom signal hijacking occurred on the night of November 22, 1987, when the television broadcasts of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, United States, were hijacked in an act of broadcast piracy by a video of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume, accompanied by distorted audio and a corrugated metal panel swiveling in the background to mimic Max Headrooms. Television networks battle one another in an unrelenting ratings war.
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