(Above -- an interview with Max Headroom on British TV by Terry Wogan in the 1980s.)
Shout! Factory and Warner Home Video have announced a deal to bring the popular "Max Headroom" and "The Norm Show" to DVD.
Under its multi-year agreement with Warner Home Video, Shout! Factory will be the exclusive media company to distribute the shows for home entertainment releases in the United States and Canada. The announcement was made Monday 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. We’re pop culture fanatics at Shout!, and both of these shows are loved by fans of TV and are highly requested. We’ll do them justice with great extras and packaging,” Shout Factory's founding partners Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos announced in a statement.
"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.
"The Norm Show," starring "Saturday Night Live" veteran Norm Macdonald, chronicles the misadventures of former NHL hockey player turned dysfunctional social worker whose life has been thrown for a loop due to gambling and tax evasion. "The Norm Show" was one of the top rated sitcoms in 1999 and ran on ABC for three seasons. The second season also brought about the shortening of the show’s title to simply "Norm."
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