BK Studios

**BK Studios**, also credited as **BK Studios productions**, most successful show to date is the broadcast TV and Roku channel talk show "A Captain's Log" still running in production on season 3 today. **BK Studios** was the production company that started the Up on High Ground franchise with the production of the initially, un-aired 2013 pilot television episode titled "**Friends, Family, and Freeloaders**". Ultimately this episode became the second episode when the television series required an additional pilot episode to precede this one titled "**Superiority of the High and Mighty Kind-ness**" which began airing in October 2014. BK Studios was credited with the "In associated with" tag once the parent production company Brayden Patterson Productions assumed the main production company LLC and licensing in 2014 prior to officially airing Up on High Ground on The CW and Pureflix.

## History

**BK Studios** was formed in 1994 by Bryan Kreutz. The name, a portmanteau of the first and last name initials, was originally applied to the elaborately lighted sets in the vast basement areas of two houses in St. Charles Missouri. The early success of one of the first fan-film Star Trek shows in 1994 titled Star Trek: The Continuing Mission is where the name of the studios began. *Star Trek: The Continuing Mission* enabled **BK Studios** to grow and expand throughout the 1990s. When the end of the fan film series run of Star Trek The Continuing Mission completed in 1996 there were 60 episodes produced, though the episodes were never screened or aired on television, were available in picture flip book story form on one of the first websites of Star Trek to be available on the internet in its infancy. BK Studios had a brief spin-off of series in 2000 titled *Star Trek Explorer* then co-produced in writing and minor post production a number of TV talk shows, including *Revolution 618*, Rescued Nation TV and also the short film *To Inflict*, in 2012, ultimately getting an entrance into the Garden Grove California Indy fest USA film festival in 2013. For it's most notable show to date being Up on High Ground, BK Studios signed a three-year agreement with Brayden Patterson Productions to the show based on several on-location properties and writing and co production agreements.

Like most Midwestern studios during the 1990s and 2000s, BK Studios had a stable of annually-contracted actors at little to no cost and a small group of behind-the-scenes production staffers. Such talent moved from production to production as needed on the studio lot or on location for productions.

**BK Studios** has continued to co-produce pilot programs in the realm of game-shows, scripted dramas, and comedies to date. Since the cancellation of Up on High Ground, none of the pilots have surfaced into distribution deals, but the studios and producer Bryan Kreutz have ventured numerous times into the United Kingdom for prospective pilot scripts and undeveloped game shows for content.

The latest series in production is located in Lake Elsinore, California and is titled "A Captain's Log". In co-production with the FYV studios, " A Captain's Log", is the biggest budget and most visible production to date for BK Studios. The TV talk show is hosted by Bryan Kreutz himself along with co-host Lili Fox-Lim and the fully animated co-co-host named Rogg. As of March 2023 the TV talk show series has released three full seasons after initially releasing it's pilot episode premiere in June 2021. Star Trek interviews with stunt performers, writers, and familiar Star Trek guests each season are the common themes of the talk show series "A Captain's Log".

BK Studios officially moved permanently from St. Louis Missouri to Southern California in 2018. BK Studios is the pioneer for being the only production company to produce three different TV talk shows with the same producer, who also directed all episodes and hosted one of the series in front of the camera.