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Bob Newhart sits down with Peter Bonerz, Jack Riley, Bill Daily and Michael Zinberg.

Director L.Q. Jones and author Harlan Ellison discuss making A Boy and His Dog.

Roger Corman, Joe Dante and many more talk about the special effects and go behind the scenes of Piranha.

Power Rangers cast and crew talk about the vast collection of props used in the iconic series.

Interview with executive producer Mel Brooks, producer Jonathan Sanger and former Brooksline development executive Randy Auerbach.

In part one of the complete history of MST3K, Joel and the rest of the crew discuss the show's origins and the DIY feel of the early seasons.

Weird Al takes a look back at his career in this 2014 San Diego Comic Con Panel.

Mel looks back at memorable scenes from his film The Twelve Chairs and the stories behind them.

In part two of the complete history of MST3K, Joel and the rest of the team discuss the Satellite of Love crew.

Get an intimate behind-the-scenes look at the Sarah Silverman Program in this writer's roundtable discussion.

Shout! Factory made some big announcements and answered questions at our 2015 San Diego Comic-Con panel.

John Carpenter discusses several films from his celebrated career in this interview.

Interviews with Producer Roger Corman and Special Makkeup Effects guru John Carl Beuchler.

Interviews with Roger Corman, Second Unit/Assistant Director James Sbardellati, Composer James Horner and Cindy Weintraub

Part three of the complete history of MST3K takes a look at the changes the series underwent throughout the course of its run, including the host and network shifts.

The cast and crew of The Slumber Party Massacre II revisit the making of the film.

Garry Shandling discusses his career in the entertainment industry and breaking the fourth wall on his show to a class of USC students.

In this special event, show creator Joe Murray joins voice actors Carlos Alazraqui, Tom Kenny and more for this reading of the Rocko episode Wacky Deli at the Downtown Independent Theater in Los Angeles.

The cast of this hilarious late night alternative to SNL comes together once again to discuss the show and improv techniques.

A compilation of new introductions for the infamous Turkey Day marathon as well as a nostalgic look back on the Comedy Central fan-favorite marathon of Mystery Science Theater.

Go behind the scenes of this Christmas classic, focusing on Henry Winkler's five hour makeup transformation, why he initially refused to play Benedict Slade and more!

Head writer of Fridays, Steve Adams, sits down with the shows writing staff 34 years later to reflect.

August Ragone, Kaiju expert, presents his introductions to the nine Godzilla movies, full of monster facts and interesting behind the scenes insight.

Behind the scenes look at the villains of Power Rangers. Learn why it's more fun to be the bad guy (or girl) and what it takes to get there!

Learn about automated dialog replacement, or ADR, used to fix and/or dub audio - one of the most important elements in the Power Rangers franchise. Cast members of the Power Rangers series discuss the importance of ADR and how they helped inexperienced actors acclimate to it.

Crew from Battle Beyond the Stars discuss the great lengths they had to go to in order to make an epic space movie in nine months on a shoe string budget.

Luigi Cozzi, creator of the Star Wars knockoff Starcrash, discusses the sript based off of a film he had never even seen at the time.

A compilation of August Ragone's introductions for each Gamera film throughout Shout! Factory TV's Kaiju Movie Marathon.

See how James Brown's persona and music was influenced by the civil rights movement and more; featuring interviews with Dr. Robert Hall, Rickey Vincent and Dr. Cornel West

Watch some in-depth interviews and get an inside look at the movie itself that is classically riffed in this Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode.

Cast of the critically acclaimed film, "Sophie's Choice", discuss the chance offer that got the film made, potential alternative female leads and more in this roundtable interview.

This episode of Backlot features an interview with some MST3K crew and other experts as they look back at this quirky Rene Cardona-directed movie and learn about things like Santa's superhero powers, how to insult people at Christmas, and much more.

Get an exclusive look at Roger Corman's rival to the wildly popular, "Alien" film. Featuring interviews with cast and crew, including Roger Corman himself. The interviews focus on monster inspiration, as well as unorthodox methods popular by Corman. For example, hiring crew right out of film school, or casting Robert Englund without an audition.

Sit down with creator Paul Feig and executive producer Judd Apatow of the famed series as they discuss their careers and what it's like to work with a cast of future stars including Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, James Franco and more!

A spinoff of the acclaimed King Kong film, Gorgo was a monster-from-the-sea movie with a European setting and strangely happy ending. In this look behind the making of the film, a movie that was later skewered in a fan favorite episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, you'll learn how the Gorgo suit was created, why it's a bad idea to send a monster to Paris and more!

In this interview, cast and crew discuss how Living In Oblivion went from 30 minutes to feature length, why you should always answer your call waiting when financing a movie and much more.

In this interview with Mel Gibson, Joanna Samuel and director of photography David Eggby, you'll learn about the casting, budget and infamous motorcycle crash that went into the creation of Mad Max.

Check out the interesting career of Robert Lippert, the Hollywood producer known for cranking out budget cinema.

Join this rountable discussion with cast members of Max Headroom as they discuss this groundbreaking, yet sometimes confusing science fiction satire.

The second installment of Penelope Spheeris's documentary series took on the metal years of LA's notorious sunset strip scene, featuring hard-partying hair bands and their relentless pursuit of fame and fortune. In this panel from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, we'll find out why that time in music will never be duplicated, why Spheeris wanted unknown bands to appear in the movie, and what really killed the Hollywood rock scene.

In this panel at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, we take a look back at the film that captured the spirit of the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the late '70s, as well as the third film in the series, which shined a light on the lifestyle of homeless teens known as gutter punks. We'll learn how there's little difference between a punk band and its audience, why the third film in the series was so hard to find for so long, and why there wouldn't be any punk scene in LA without a man named Brendan Mullen.

In this interview with co-creators Brent Friedman and Bryce Zabel, and stars Eric Close and Megan Ward, we'll find out why this self-proclaimed "Forrest Gump meets War of the Worlds" show couldn't feature any government men in black suits, the daily challenges of setting a show in the 1960s, and why the creators wrote a series bible that spanned over 75 million years of history before pitching to networks.

In this interview with Alec Baldwin, director Russell Mulcahy, Penelope Ann Miller and more, you cam learn about the reasoning behind The Shadow's backstory in Tibet, how they gave the film the look of a 1930s classic and how an excellent supporting cast can add new dimensions to side characters.

In this interview with the show's producers, you'll get an inside look at why it might have been Alicia Silverstone in the lead role, why you don't need to direct Claire Danes, and how MTV played a key role in spreading the show's cult popularity.

Get a backstage pass to Rock 'n' Roll High School, a Roger Corman production featuring iconic punk rockers The Ramones. If you ever wondered how they got the band to be in the movie, or where P.J. Soles got her wardrobe, Backlot has you covered in this interview with Arkush, Corman, Clint Howard, Joe Dante and more.

Cannibal Girls is a 1973 horror comedy that helped launch the careers of Ivan Reitman and Eugene Levy. It's since become a cult favorite horror spoof. In this interview, filmmakers Ivan Reitman and Daniel Goldberg talk about the origins of Cannibal Girls and why they took the communist approach to making movies, why the screenplay was 13 pages and how threatening to drive film negatives over a cliff is a great negotiation tactic.

William Shatner has had some very high profile acting gigs over the years, but he's also done his fair share of small cult films. Kingdom of the Spiders, a 1977 film about a town overrun by killer tarantulas, is one of the latter. Shatner sat down to talk about the movie and revealed some interesting tidbits.

In part one of the complete history of MST3K, Joel and the rest of the crew discuss the show's origins and the DIY feel of the early seasons.

Shout! Factory makes some big announcements and answers questions at our 2018 San Diego Comic-Con panel.