bart@speedy.UUCP (10/16/87)
Keywords: Apparently, Max Headroom is going off the air. While it wasn't as bold or imaginative as it might've been, it was a bit of variety on prime-time. Middle america just wasn't ready for a bit of creative thought. Let's all toast the victory of Miami Lice. --bart miller uw-madison cs dept bart@cs.wisc.edu ...!uwvax!bart
oleg@quad1.UUCP (10/19/87)
In article <4482@spool.wisc.edu> bart@speedy.WISC.EDU (Bart Miller) writes: >Apparently, Max Headroom is going off the air. It is true, Max Headroom got canned. >Middle america just wasn't ready for a bit of creative thought. Let's all >toast the victory of Miami Lice. The fault was with the network. They should have never scheduled MH opposite of the heavy Friday-night earners like the prime-time soaps. And, according to a TV guru friend of mine, Friday prime-time is known to be among the worst possible slots to schedule SF. -- Oleg Kiselev -- oleg@quad1.quad.com -- {...!psivax|seismo!gould}!quad1!oleg HASA, "A" Division DISCLAIMER: I don't speak for my employers.
ewa@sdcc19.UUCP (10/21/87)
In article <1256@quad1.quad.com> oleg@quad1.quad.com (Oleg Kiselev) writes: >The fault was with the network. They should have never scheduled MH opposite >of the heavy Friday-night earners like the prime-time soaps. And, according >to a TV guru friend of mine, Friday prime-time is known to be among the worst >possible slots to schedule SF. I believe the original Star Trek was placed in a Friday night time-slot shortly before NBC killed it. We (above average people) can't really expect ABC to hang on to Max Headroom - We're talking about a show which is both intelligent and funny (rarely does a network offer something which is either), which makes fun of the whole tele- vision industry and (ironic, huh?) the importance of ratings. Oh well. -Eric Anderson, UC San Diego (elsewhere!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc19!ewa)