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Biz Kids

Biz Kids (stylized as biz KID$) is an American educational television series that teaches financial education and entrepreneurship to kids and teenagers. It uses sketch comedy, musical guests, guest and special guest appearances, and young actors to explain basic economic concepts. Its motto is: "Where kids teach kids about money and business." Biz Kids has been described as comparable to KING-TV's Almost Live!,[who?] and is similar in format to CBC Television's Street Cents.

Biz Kids was created by the producers (Bill Nye the Science Guy), the Emmy Award winning science show from the 1990s. Comedy sketches, spoofs of mostly old TV shows and movies, commercial parodies, and silly antics are performed by a cast of Seattle teenage actors.

The Biz Kids cast is made up largely of teenage actors from the Seattle area. Writer John Keister also has small recurring roles.[citation needed]

Biz Kids is about a group of high school teenagers and one middle school preteen teaches kids about money and others and they also been friends since childhood (preschool to high school).[citation needed]

The original cast members were Lauren Dupree, Kaelon Horst, Bob Jones, Maia Lee, Alexander Oki, Amanda Powers, Miriam Schwartz, Austin Siedentopf, Devon Stark, Christina Taylor, and Elizabeth Wright.

The Curse of Mercer Street, The Haunted Studio, and other Halloween sketches.

Biz Kids is produced in association with WXXI of Rochester, NY, and is distributed by American Public Television in the United States. It started airing on local PBS stations on January 6, 2008. Shortly after launching, the show achieved a reach of 118 million households, and by June 2008, the show was airing on 311 of 343 PBS stations. By early 2009, the show was broadcast on 334 PBS stations, accounting for 97% of public television channels in the United States. After six seasons, the show concluded on June 20, 2017. As of 2024, reruns continue to air on select PBS stations, and the series is also aired on commercial broadcast syndication.[citation needed]

The show also aired in the United Kingdom on the Simply Money channel and also aired in Canada on the Knowledge Network.[citation needed]

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