I met Kyle back in 2013 in Sarasota. We would bump into each other around town and always in Publix. During one of our many meetings at Publix, Kyle told me an idea he had a for a TV series called “Hot, Hip & Happening”. I dug the idea so we started shooting mini video segments around town, at bars and restaurants. After we did a few of those, Kyle showed the videos to Nate Jacobs who loved the idea and wanted to support us in making a pilot for the show. Kyle, Nate and I had a meeting of the minds and started planning the pilot. After a few meetings and Nate making some connections, we were off to the races and completed the pilot.
After the pilot, we continued shooting short segments for Facebook and YouTube. In 2015, I moved to NYC. Meanwhile, night after night, Nate was producing sellout shows at his West Coast Black Theatre Troupe while frequently hosting on ABC7’s Suncoast View. Nate shared the pilot with the producers at ABC7 and they loved the concept. After a couple of years of planning, I made my way back down to Sarasota during the summer of 2019 to shoot the first season of Fly with Kyle Scott. Some where along the way, I had a crazy idea of rebranding the show. “Hot, Hip & Happening” was the essence of what the show was about but I felt “Fly” better represented it and was much cleaner and easier to brand.
Fly began streaming on ABC7 in October of 2019. It aired Saturday nights at 7pm and Sunday at noon. It was great tuning in from NYC to watch every weekend. As the show completed airing at the end of 2019, ABC7 delivered great news to us that a spot had opened up on the actual TV network. And the rest was history. Fly with Kyle Scott made it to television. Here are a couple of episodes.