Tangles with Beauty and the Beast: The Starlog Coverage Controversyīeauty and the Beast (TV) did not get boosted for several years in the for-profit zine, Starlog, due to a falling out between CBS- TPTB and the editors of that zine about their coverage of Max Headroom. The screen went to pitch black, then cut to a video of the hijacker wearing a Max Headroom mask and sunglasses, accompanied by a buzzing sound and swaying in. They were actually shooting a show, they were halfway through a show when they got the order, "Nope, you're off the schedule, stop shooting immediately, move out of your offices. The Max Headroom signal hijacking occurred on the night of November 22, 1987, when the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers. I had a script that was in pre-production for their Christmas show. Just let me give that example because I was a little bit involved with that. The Max Headroom Incident Solidarity TV Zombie Alert On The Steve Wilkos Show Southern Television Broadcast Interruption Mayday Interruption Art Bell Radio. Because a show that failed, that's getting bad ratings, is just ripped off the air when they least expect it. Shows are not allowed to really have endings. We were an American television show broadcast in the late 80's, operating on American network television and it just doesn't work that way. But the problem is we were a television show. Ideally, I think Koslow might have wanted to end.
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