Boy, this post is going to highlight the generation gap. Okay, so back in the '80s Coca Cola had an ad campaign featuring Matt Frewer as a hyperactive computer-animated pitchman named Max Headroom. In addition to being a marketing tool, he also hosted a British series where he played music videos and interviewed people. In addition to that, he became the basis for a TV movie called Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, which then became a short-lived science fiction series that aired on Cinemax. Sort of like that awful Caveman sitcom based on the Geico commercials, if Cavemen had been a darkly satirical cyberpunk series about things like subliminal television commercials that make people spontaneously combust.
I know, the '80s were a weird time for us all.
This is why I love DVD, because it's continually resurrecting obscure shit you thought you'd never seen again this side of a bootlegger's booth at your local convention hall. Shout! Factory have yet again earned their place on my Christmas list by announcing that they're partnering with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to release both seasons of Max Headroom this summer. While the press release doesn't list a date, the same Home Media Magazine article we linked to yesterday about Shout's release of The Larry Sanders Show suggests it'll arrive in August. Catch the wave!
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