Biz Kids (stylized as biz KID$, January 6, 2008) is an American educational television series that teaches financial education and entrepreneurship to kids and teenagers. It uses sketch comedy, musical guests, guest and special guest appearances, and young actors to explain basic economic concepts. Similar in format to CBC Television's Street Cents. Its motto is: "Where kids teach kids about money and business." Biz Kid$ has been described as comparable to KING-TV's Almost Live!.
Production
Biz Kids was created by the producers of 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 specials of Biz Kids are taking hours or minutes, instead of a typical show, with short sketches, the short, medium or longer sketches.
Cast
The Biz Kids cast is made up largely of teenage actors from the Seattle area. Writer John Keister also has small recurring roles.
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).
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.