The only real check on the power of the networks is Edison Carter, a crusading investigative journalist who regularly exposes the unethical practices of his own employer, and the team of allies both inside and outside the system who assist him in getting his reports to air and protecting him from the forces that wish to silence or kill him.Ĭharacters Edison Carter Įdison Carter ( Matt Frewer) is a hard-hitting reporter for Network 23, who sometimes uncovered things that his superiors in the network would have preferred be kept private. Almost all non-television technology has been discontinued or destroyed. Television technology has advanced to the point that viewers' physical movements and thoughts can be monitored through their television sets.
Even the government functions primarily as a puppet of the network executives, serving mainly to pass laws - such as banning "off" switches on televisions - that protect and consolidate the networks' power.
In the future, an oligarchy of television networks rules the world. The story is based on the Channel 4 British TV film produced by Chrysalis, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future.
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The series is set in a futuristic dystopia ruled by an oligarchy of television networks, and features the character and media personality Max Headroom.
Max Headroom is an American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 31, 1987, to May 5, 1988. Not to be confused with The Max Headroom Show.
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