The company ceased producing the program when it was cancelled by the Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) in 1999 and closed its studio.
The company then functioned as the holder of the MST3K brand for negotiating home video releases of the show on Shout!
Factory and its availability on streaming services like Hulu until its sale of the MST3K property to Shout!
Factory announced it had purchased MST3K and its associated intellectual property from Best Brains for an undisclosed sum.
[2] On the same day, MST3K creator Joel Hodgson announced a crowdsourcing campaign to revive the program.