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Here’s some very excit­ing news for 1980’s t.v. afi­ciona­dos: after years of wait­ing, Max Headroom is finally com­ing to DVD in the U.S.  For those not up on their 1980’s cul­ture, Max Headroom was a way-ahead-of-its-time show that mixed sci­ence fic­tion and social/political satire.  It was a great vehi­cle for the tal­ents of the under­rated Matt Frewer (most recently seen as a vil­lain in The Watchmen) and prob­a­bly the first expo­sure most peo­ple had to the con­cept of ‘cyber­punk’ at that time.  Read on for a more detailed descrip­tion of the show and the home-video plans for it…

Shout! Factory and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc.

Announce Content Deal

SHOUT! FACTORY LANDS HOME ENTERTAINMENT RIGHTS TO POPULAR TELEVISION PROPERTY MAX HEADROOM

Los Angeles, CA – Shout! Factory and Warner Home Video, a divi­sion of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc., announced a multi-property alliance to bring the highly antic­i­pated Warner Bros. tele­vi­sion series Max Headroom to the home enter­tain­ment mar­ket­place.  Under its multi-year agree­ment with Warner Home Video, Shout! Factory will be the exclu­sive media com­pany to dis­trib­ute Max Headroom DVDs for home enter­tain­ment releases in the United States and Canada. The announce­ment was made today by Shout! Factory found­ing part­ners Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos ; and Jeff Brown, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Non-theatrical Franchise Marketing.

Production has begun to develop a wide range of bonus con­tent for Max Headroom: The Complete Series DVD box set, as well as re-transferring the episodes from the orig­i­nal ele­ments to pro­vide the high­est pic­ture quality.

“Max Headroom is a uniquely sought-after tele­vi­sion prop­erty, boast­ing a large fan fol­low­ing and con­sumer inter­ests. We have been purs­ing this prop­erty with Warner Bros. for years, and we’re thrilled that it’s finally com­ing to fruition,” state Shout! Factory found­ing partners.

Starring Matt Frewer, W. Morgan Sheppard, Jeffrey Tambor and Amanda Pays, the U.S. tele­vi­sion series Max Headroom, inspired by a British made-for-television movie 20 Minutes into the Future, aired on ABC from 1987–1988.  Hailed by crit­ics and fans as one of the most inno­v­a­tive sci­ence fic­tion series ever pro­duced for American tele­vi­sion, Max Headroom is con­sid­ered to be the first cyber­punk tele­vi­sion series, bol­stered by its inno­v­a­tive premise, bril­liant writ­ing and fast-paced visual style.  Unafraid to explore any sub­ject, no mat­ter how con­tro­ver­sial, the series cyn­i­cally tack­les top­i­cal issues from the gen­eral tele­vi­sion indus­try such as the exploita­tion of the TV rat­ings games, polit­i­cal adver­tis­ing, tele-evangelism, news cov­er­age and com­mer­cials.  The world of Max Headroom is a satir­i­cally funny look at tele­vi­sion of the not-too-distant future. There are 4,000 TV chan­nels, cam­eras are every­where, tele­vi­sion sets can’t be shut off, rat­ings have been per­fected to the point where pro­gram­ming deci­sions are made minute by minute, and Network 23, the rat­ings leader, is headed by a man who would lit­er­ally kill for rat­ings.  Enter inves­tiga­tive reporter Edison Carter and his alter ego, the first computer-simulated multi-media star, Max Headroom, played by Matt Frewer. Max Headroom is a pro­duc­tion of Chrysalis/Lakeside in asso­ci­a­tion with Lorimar Telepictures.

To pur­chase this disc directly from Shout! Factory, just click on the “Buy” but­ton below:

Max Headroom: The Complete Series

Max Headroom: The Complete Series

Max Headroom: The Complete Series