One of my good friends was the main editor on that show. I loved that show, it was so delightfully weird.
For those who didn’t know, the name Max Headroom came from a UK highway sign indicating clearance of an overhead bridge.
Max was advertised as "computer-generated", and some believed this, but he was actually actor Frewer wearing prosthetic makeup, contact lenses, and a plastic moulded suit, and sitting in front of a blue screen.Really very impressive what they did WITHOUT computer generated effects.Harsh lighting and other editing and recording effects heighten the illusion of a CGI character.
According to his creators, Max's personality was meant to be a satirical exaggeration of the worst tendencies of television hosts in the 1980s who wanted to appeal to youth culture, yet were not a part of it.
Nah ... Max has way more class than Biden.
Biden looks s lot more like the banjo player from the movie Deliverance.
https://youtu.be/NFutge4xn3w?si=lUVkGxSCcWxK5kNh
I liked the computer holograph “Ollie” on “Red Dwarf”...
Blank Reg was one of the greatest TV characters ever!