Edison Carter is a reporter for Network 23 who always want to seek out the truth, even if it means clashing with his network’s agenda. Set in a dystopian future (the tag line was “twenty minutes into the future”), it focused on a society in which multiple TV networks dominate and everything revolves around their programming.
#MAX HEADROOM TV SERIES SERIES#
What sparked my interest in revisiting the TV series was its commentary on television and its impact on society. It lasted 13 episodes on ABC (a 14th episode was produced but didn’t air until it went into reruns on cable networks) and was released on DVD by Shout Factory seven years ago. See, folks, this is what happens when you become a novel writer - you keep getting all these ideas in your head for new stories!īut I’m not here to talk to you about such ideas, because my thoughts also turned to my collection of DVDs that I’ve accumulated through the years, how I started to think more critically about the movies and TV shows and what they were all about, and that’s when I pulled out my DVDs of the Max Headroom TV series.įor those who remember Max Headroom, you probably remember him from MTV and his ad spots plugging New Coke, but what caught my interest when I was younger was the short-lived TV series based on the character.
After I finished up edits and rewrites on the second draft of my third novel and reviewed edits on my second novel, my thoughts turned to ideas for future books.