Actor and producer Kirk Cameron is launching a new children’s television show to bring wholesome and high-quality programming to families.
The project comes on the heels of Cameron working with children’s book publisher BRAVE Books. As an author with the conservative publishing company, Cameron has been a values-based literacy advocate, working to fight woke library drag queen story hour events and pornographic content labeled as children’s books in school libraries.
“We are now diving deeper into children’s entertainment with a children’s television show, combining timeless biblical moral values of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood but with much modernized, high-energy, animated storytelling,” the actor said to the Washington Examiner.
The show is titled Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk and will center on the leading character, “Mr. Kirk,” played by Cameron, and Iggy the Iguana, who lives in a tree house in his backyard.
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Iggy is played by puppeteer John Kennedy, a veteran actor who has starred in numerous top children’s shows, including Sesame Street and the Muppets. The show will also feature Disney star Leigh-Allyn Baker from the hit show Good Luck Charlie, among numerous surprise guest star appearances.
His new project is crowdfunding through BRAVE Books to raise funds for the top-notch production team assembled of Christian Hollywood screenwriters, producers, actors, and film crews.
“We are all teaming up together because we know that it is either now or never,” Cameron said of the world-class entertainment team that he has amassed for this project.
The television series has raised over $24,000 in its first day of announcing the show and is aiming to raise over $2.5 million. Each episode costs $125,000, which is a modest fundraising goal in order to stand up to the production values of similar children’s entertainment companies like Disney.
The viral online streaming show The Chosen has used crowdfunding to raise money for their productions to rival Hollywood’s budgets in high-quality production teams and storytelling.
“You may not be Elon Musk who can buy Twitter. You may not be Mr. Rogers or a puppeteer or a famous songwriter, but what you can do if you love your children and grandchildren, you can be a part of creating something good in helping create this show, just like they did with The Chosen,” Cameron said.
Cameron hopes the show will change the future of children’s programming in helping parents find entertainment and educational content without sacrificing quality.
The show is tentatively planning to begin filming this spring and will plan to air the episodes on major streaming platforms, including YouTube and Rumble, starting this summer. He is working to raise enough money for the first two seasons and said the “phenomenal production crew are all in and ready to go” for filming in May.
Those participating in the crowdfunding effort will have the opportunity to receive various reward incentives, including getting their name in the show credits, access to all of the episodes, free BRAVE books, red-carpet premiere tickets, and an option to play a minor role in an episode.
Cameron says this is an opportunity for anyone who wants to see “the hearts and minds of children nourished with good things” rather than the “twisted, perverted things that the wolves of Hollywood seem to keep pumping out.”
“We have gone so far off the rails that people are buying into insanity and teaching it to our children as a reality,” he said.
Cameron is worried about the direction of children’s content as a whole and is using his passion as a performer and Hollywood star to take on the entertainment world’s increasingly woke version of children programming.
“The thing about a lot of these ‘mindless’ shows out there is that they are actually not mindless. They are actually, I believe, an intentional strategy to teach children not to think. It’s to numb their brains and to make them think that life is really about doing what you’re told, to copy people that you see, and do what you feel,” he said.
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The Growing Pains star wants this venture to help create new programming channels for the next generation to show them “what is true, what is good, and right.”
“We want this show to be around a long time like Mr. Rogers and to be a staple of children’s entertainment,” Cameron said.
