Joel Hodgson Archives

Mystery Science Theater 3000, for over the course of 13 seasons across over three decades, skewered the worst Hollywood cinema had to offer since its humble beginnings with creator and host Joel Hodgson in Minnesota's KTMA in 1988 Its popularity spread throughout cable households jumping to Comedy Central, and then, the Sci-Fi Channel (now SyFy)[...]

Creator Joel Hodgson went back to the crowdfunded Kickstarter with bigger ambitions than when he went to the platform for the Netflix incarnation Speaking with Collider, the host talked about his latest crowdfunded project to independently produce the series, which includes making his own platform Gizmoplex it's new permanent home, and how it will nurture[...]

While the news is sad, Joel Hodgson and others were quick to point out that while this is the end of their run on Netflix, it is not the end of MST3K. If you didn't see the backer update, I announced today that #MST3K is not doing a third season for Netflix It's not the end[...]

We're not quite sure exactly how this will work, but popular movie riffing phenomenon Mystery Science Theater 3000 is coming to comics, courtesy of a new series at Dark Horse by series creator Joel Hodgson The description, provided via press release, is brief: Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Comic finds Jonah Heston, Crow T Robot, Tom Servo,[...]

You can watch series creator Joel Hodgson, Ray, and Day's reaction to the news here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=56&v=Hpm9nHqXoawVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: MST3K: Breaking News (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=56&v=Hpm9nHqXoaw) MST3K has had a very interesting run over the past 11 seasons, almost standing as a one-show representation of the changes that have taken place in television[...]

That's right kids, if you didn't figure it out already, I am talking about Mystery Science Theater 3000. While MST3K ended in 1999, thanks to its strong fan base and its creator, Joel Hodgson, it's coming back Hodgson ran a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign in November 2015, raising over $5.7M with over 48,000 backers, to relaunch[...]

B Natural) and just announced today, the creator and original MST3K host Joel Hodgson, plus the new host of the revived program Jonah Ray. This was made possible by their Kickstarter http://RiffTrax.com/Kickstarter which you can still add to. The RiffTrax LIVE: MST3K Reunion show will be broadcast live into movie theaters nationwide June 28th[...]

By Jared Cornelius I'm the kind of guy who's not crazy about crowds, I'm not afraid of being trampled or have some irrational fear, but whenever I'm somewhere like Wizard World Philly I can't help but feel congested.  I enjoy conventions, I enjoy meeting like-minded people, but it always seems like such a hassle fighting crowds and waiting in[...]

The first guest to catch my eye was undoubtedly Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson who'd be doing signings and photos on Saturday.  Hodgson besides being the originator of MST3K  was a writer in the early years of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and most recently found success reviving his riffing career touring with fellow MST3K alum with the now on hiatus Cinematic Titanic. As a wrestling fan[...]

Sam Huntington (Being Human, Superman Returns), Joel Hodgson (Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Cinematic Titanic), Nancy Collins (Vampirella, Swamp Thing) and Rachel Autumn Deering (IDW's In The Dark) We're already working on events (game room, contests) for the show that no one has ever done All top secret of course. Despite how well we did in April,[...]