Kid Stew TV Series Featuring South Florida Kids Wins Three EMMYs

Public Television Children’s Series KID STEW Co-Produced by Best-Selling Author James Patterson and South Florida PBS Multiple Winner at NATAS Suncoast Chapter Emmy Award

Winner in “Children’s/Youth/Teen” for Three Episodes

The public television series KID STEW, a co-production of best-selling author James Patterson and South Florida PBS for elementary school kids celebrating imagination and creative expression, won three Emmy ® awards at the NATAS Suncoast regional chapter ceremony in Orlando on December 14 in the category “Children’s/Youth/Teen for episodes in the series’ second season. All six episodes of the series’ second season were nominated in the category “Children/Youth/ Teens” program for the team of James Patterson, Frank Costantini, Brian Sitts, Scott Barnett, Johanna Vega and Tim Malloy. The series represented six of the eight nominations in the category. Luke Nappe of Miami Beach, one of the series’ nine pre-teen cast members, was nominated in the “Talent – Performer/Narrator” category. Presenting station and co-producer South Florida PBS received a total of 18 nominations this year and nine awards. Season one of KID STEW garnered seven nominations in 2018 and won five EMMY ® Awards – in the category Outstanding Children’s Program for all four Season One episodes and in the category Talent for co-star Armando Bernal IV. The series’ third season is slated to debut on public television stations in May 2020.

“Thank you to our Suncoast chapter colleagues for seeing the value in what ‘Kid Stew’ is doing to make learning hilarious instead of boring,” said series creator and co-producer James Patterson. “It gets even better in the new season coming in May, when we make even nutrition fun.”

“South Florida PBS has a great partner in James Patterson, helping us fulfill public television’s mission of educating while entertaining with his unique stamp on children’s programming,” said South Florida PBS CEO and President Dolores Sukhdeo. “We are humbled to be recognized by our Suncoast chapter peers for our efforts again this year.”

Co-producer South Florida PBS distributes the series nationally to public television stations via American Public Television (check local listings). Watch the first two seasons at https://www.kidstew.tv.

In addition to 2019 EMMY ® nominee Nappe, the kids cast in season two includes Florida residents Armando Bernal IV, David Bolinger, Caroline DeLeon, Nicholas Hernandez, Madison Maxwell, Blake McCall, Milena Rivero, and Satine Sorensen, and their mascot dog, Ozzie. They time travel, conduct interviews with famous creatives, host newscasts, explore the science behind joke shop classics, virtually globetrot, star in parody commercials, perform in music videos, read to animals, and more kid-tested, teacher-approved fun.

In the EMMY®-winning episodes, the Kid Stew cast time travel to meet Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Pablo Picasso; interview authors Judy Blume, Soman Chainani, and Peter Brown; learn the science behind trick birthday candles, how art affects the brain, and more fun facts; perform a revolutionary take on the American Revolution, and more.

Series creator: James Patterson. Director: Frank Costantini. Head writer: Brian Sitts. Producer/Field Director: Scott Barnett. Supervising Producer: Johanna Vega. The second season of KID STEW was made possible by support from The Eunice Joyce Gardiner Charitable Foundation and the Cornelia T. Bailey Charitable Trust. Follow the series on Instagram (KidStewTV), Facebook, and Twitter (@stew_tv).

About NATAS Suncoast Chapter

The Suncoast Chapter is the regional chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences that represents Florida; Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, & New Orleans, Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama; Thomasville, Georgia; and Puerto Rico.

About James Patterson

KID STEW series creator James Patterson, the number three kids author in the United States with best-selling children’s titles including the Max Einstein, I Funny, and Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life series, and Word of Mouse (along with his hundreds of bestsellers for those kids’ parents), has long been an advocate for children’s literacy, founding the Read Kiddo Read initiative and spearheading grants for teachers to supplement their school libraries each year.

About South Florida PBS

South Florida PBS is Florida’s largest public media company, including Public Broadcasting stations WXEL, serving the Palm Beaches and WPBT, serving Miami-Dade and Broward counties. South Florida PBS connects organizations and institutions across our region and preserves South Florida's history. Leading the way in this global society, South Florida PBS serves diverse communities from Key West to the Sebastian Inlet and from the Atlantic Ocean west to Lake Okeechobee. South Florida PBS is committed to creating and presenting unique arts, education and cultural heritage programming, and serves as a model for telling unique local stories across a variety of digital media platforms. National productions presented to public television stations by South Florida PBS include James Patterson’s Kid Stew, Battleground Everglades, Changing Seas, and Blue Chip Kids. For more information, visit http://www.southfloridapbs.org/home/.

About APT:

American Public Television (APT) is the leading syndicator of high-quality, top-rated programming to the nation’s public television stations. For more than 10 years, APT distributed one-third or more of the top 100 highest-rated public television titles in the U.S. Founded in 1961, among its 250 new program titles per year, APT programs include prominent documentaries, performance, news and current affairs programs, dramas, how-to programs, children’s series and classic movies. America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated, Cook’s Country, AfroPoP, Rick Steves’ Europe, Chris Kimball’s Milk Street Television, Front and Center, Doc Martin, Nightly Business Report, Midsomer Murders, A Place to Call Home, Lidia’s Kitchen, Globe Trekker, New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton, Simply Ming, and P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home are a sampling of APT’s programs, considered some of the most popular on public television. APT licenses programs internationally through its APT Worldwide service. Now in its 13th year, Create®TV — featuring the best of public television's lifestyle programming — is distributed by American Public Television. APT also distributes WORLD™, public television’s premier news, science and documentary channel. To find out more about APT’s programs and services, visit APTonline.org.