The American Masters Mel Brooks PBS special will be airing tonight. A DVD with special features will be available from Shout! Factory May 21st. This looks like a nicely produced show. Check out the website for some neat photos! http://www.thirteen.org/13pressroom/press-release/american-masters-2013-season-mel-brooks/

Mel Brooks will be on Jimmy Kimmel 11/15 Thr night to promote the release of “The Incredible Mel Brooks” box set. Set your alarms, DVRs or attend the taping live ! Here’s the Shout! Factory post… Mel Brooks | Shout!Factory.

Hey fans… if you pre-order your DVD/CD set from Shout! Factory right now you can get a MEL BROOKS SIGNED COPY for the same price as on Amazon. There were only 300 of these boxes signed by Mel Brooks and I know for a fact that there are less than 300 left! As long as [...]

A “thank you” shout out to fan Alan for pointing this out… apparently the Shout! factory set The Incredible Mel Brooks: An Irresistible Collection Of Unhinged Comedy is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com. It’s scheduled for release Nov 13th, which will be just in time for the holidays if the date doesn’t slip! The [...]

For fans that are more current about the news, I totally missed the announcement last year that Shout! Factory had begun a project in collaboration with Mel Brooks to identify and compile a sort of history of Mel Brooks, aptly titled “The History of Mel Brooks, Part 1″,  with lots of rare and previously unreleased [...]

For all the fans asking about the Rhino CD set/records your day has finally come! I was browsing a Sports Illustrated at my dentist’s when I saw an interview and ad for The 2000 Year Old Man : The Complete History Box Set!!! This is a 3-CD, 1-DVD and booklet set. The CDs include REMASTERED [...]

The latest issue of ToyFare magazine has a short interview with Mel on Page 48, no doubt a promo for the Spaceballs Animated DVD release June 16th. Oddly, it’s listed at www.dvdpricesearch.com as “Spaceballs: The Animated Spoof”. The Amazon.com listing states it is cancelled, but includes some insight into the naming convention. Apparently it’s not [...]

Oh the glory of YouTube. Apparently two TV episodes (A Frick Called Wanda and Suites, Lies & Videotape) of The Nutt House, a writing collaboration between Mel Brooks and Alan Spencer at the end of the 80′s, have surfaced on YouTube.com. The show follows the zany antics of an ailing hotel and its staff (it’s [...]

Deepdiscount.com (formerly deepdiscountdvd.com) is running it’s 20% sale right now. The Mel Brooks Collection DVD set is only 49.88 shipped… use coupon code DVDTALK to get 20% off that. Check out DVDTalk.com or fatwallet.com for more codes (multiple orders). I’ve ordered from DDD for many years and they have a great return policy if the [...]

So I’ve gotten my hands on the US release of the Producers DVD a few days early. The DVD is a lot better than I expected and a welcome change from the Mel Brooks Collection box set. The audio and video quality are great (5.1 eng/french & stereo commentary), but what’s really superb is the [...]