Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Max Headroom was not a great TV show. I can say that because: (a) I watched it; (b) it survived only 14 episodes after an ...

A major injustice is about to be redressed.The ground-breaking cyberpunk TV series Max Headroom is finally coming out on DVD — and the extras may include the original British short film 20 Minutes ...

People who saw Max Headroom back in the '80s should have no problem remembering him instantly -- and not necessarily from the ABC TV series, which shone briefly and brightly in 1987 and 1988. Max, a ...

“Cheesy.” “Blade Runner-esque.” “Very 1980s.” All these words describe Max Headroom. But “subversive” is probably the best way to describe the short-lived TV series from the ’80s, which was recently ...

The entire 80s cyberpunk Max Headroom TV series is available today on DVD, and one of the pleasures of rewatching the series is discovering how many things it got right about the future. The premise ...

MAX HEADROOMSeries "Twenty minutes into the future" actually looks like today in ABC's pointedly whimsical 1987 "fantasy" drama, set in a cyberpunk urban landscape dominated by hypercompetitive TV ...

The DVD Queue: Tina Fey, R. Crumb, and M-M-Max Headroom!Also out: A definitively weird portrait of once-underground comics legend R. Crumb and his deeply strange family.

Attention, children of the 80s who remember Max Headroom: He’s finally coming to DVD. The iconic character, played briefly but brilliantly by Matt Frewer, was the star of a short-lived, eponoymous ABC ...

Max Headroom hasn’t aged as well as the many creative forces behind it would like viewers to think, but the new DVD set of the complete ABC series makes an argument for its reinstatement to the TV ...