the return of MAX
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On friday April 29th watch for the return of Max Headroom on ABC in the slot
held by PROBE.
New episodes or re-runs?
-Jack-
don't ask me watch them and see I just read TV guide!!!!!
<chortal>…
Didn't the TV guide have a blurb of what the episode was about? If it did,
and you read it, was there the tell-tale "(repeat)" present? You *did* say
you "read" the TV guide, didn't you? <grin>
-Jack-
it didnt say "repeat"
Jack,
No 'repeat' but instead it says 'return' at the beginning. It looks
like a new episode.
Don
Don,
Wonder what the odds are that Max'll stick around for a bit longer than the
last time? Hmmm, if it is a new episode, I wonder if it was taped recently,
or back before it was pulled the first time?
-Jack-
When MAX was cancelled, there were still three shows "in the can".
With the writer's strike on, the networks are scrambling to stretch the
season with miscellany until the traditional rerun season. If they can
survive spring, they can stretch the strike several months longer.
I presume that these are just the three left-over episodes followed by
reruns.
Note who the sponsors are and write THEM. We already know that the network
doesn't care, so let's convince the people who pay the bills. The Max
Headroom audience seems to be centered on wealthy youth, one of the nicest
groups for an advertiser.
../greg
Jack,
I hope it sticks around, and isn't just a 'filler' program to fill
out the season. That's one of the few shows I really enjoyed.
Don
Does it really matter? 8)
Yeah, I happen to like Max! <grin>
-Jack-
Jack,
About the only show that made watching network TV worthwhile.
Doug
What's happening to PROBE???????
From what I understand PROBE only made 6 shows, the last running tomorrow,
and was received well and may return in the fall. We will have to wait and
see.
Vic,
Universal made 8 hours of PROBE: the two hour pilot, and 6 one hour episodes.
It did poorly in the ratings against Cosby, there were production problems.
I doubt that it will return. Although I wrote the first two hour episodes,
I'm not all that upset. For me the show broke some very basic story-telling
rules, pretending to be a mystery, then resorting to "science unknown to man"
for its solutions.
Lee
From what I have heard Probe may be back in the fall, of course I am assuming
that you and you fellow WGA will have ended your strike.
Mike,
Damn! Best news I've heard in a long time.
Sid