FACT SHEET
TITLE:
KATIE BROWN WORKSHOP II
LENGTH:
26/30
NOLA CODE:
KBWK
CATEGORY:
How To / Lifestyle / Cooking / Gardening /
Crafting
OFFERED:
Fall Marketplace 2006
RELEASE DATE:
May 5, 2007
CONTRACT TERMS:
Unlimited releases to be completed by May 4,
2009.
Noncommercial cable, one-year school rerecord and video-on-demand rights have been
granted.
PROGRAM SUPPLIER:
Katie Brown Workshop via APT Presentations
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
In season two of Katie Brown Workshop, the
effervescent Katie Brown returns with more fun
and inexpensive cooking, gardening and
decorating projects designed to turn any house
into a home. Her appealing and imaginative
approach to the home arts has been a breath of
fresh air for a new generation of homemakers.
In each episode, Katie prepares a simple and
enjoyable meal, works her magic in the garden
and transforms ordinary items into ornate gifts,
festive holiday flourishes and helpful home
organizers. Always with an eye towards family,
Katie also provides imaginative suggestions for
entertaining, engaging and encouraging young
children.
PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS:
Use above for listing. A press release, episode
listings,
host
biography
and
sample
projects/recipes are included. All materials,
including photography, are available on
APTonline.org.
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PRODUCTION DATE:
©2006 Katie Brown, Inc.
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Executive Producers: Katie Brown and William
Corbin.
Producer
and
Director:
Marc
Bloomgarden. Producers: Rich Schlansker,
Amanda Kingloff, Stephanie Ditullio, Leah
Hayes, Cindi Blondell.
UNDERWRITER:
Bonnie Plants
Kraft Foods, Inc.
BROADCAST HISTORY:
U.S. television premiere
SCHEDULING SUGGESTION:
Consider for weekend
programming blocks.
RELATED MERCHANDISE:
Individual viewer purchase: The companion
book, Katie Brown’s Outdoor Entertaining, is
available for $30.00, plus shipping and
handling.
To
order,
please
visit
www.katiebrown.com.
how-to
/
lifestyle
Pledge: Two books, Katie Brown’s Weekends
and Katie Brown’s Outdoor Entertaining, are
available to stations as pledge premiums.
Contact APT Station Services for details.
VIEWER INQUIRIES:
The Katie Brown Workshop
304 Union Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Email: workshop@katiebrown.com
WEB SITE:
www.katiebrown.com
STATION RELATIONS:
Aimee Gautreau
914-238-2698
aimee.gautreau@verizon.net
COMMUNICATIONS CONTACT:
Dawn Anderson
American Public Television
(617) 338-4455, ext. 149
dawn_anderson@APTonline.org
2/15/07
CONTACT: Dawn Anderson
(617) 338-4455, ext. 149
dawn_anderson@APTonline.org
PRESS RELEASE
KATIE BROWN WORKSHOP II
Popular Host, Author & Columnist Shares
More Ways to Cook, Nest and Grow
(Boston, MA) Art-of-living expert Katie Brown, whose down-to-earth Midwestern style
and infectious personality have been praised by People, TV Guide and USA Today,
returns with more fun and inexpensive craft and decorating projects in the second
season of Katie Brown Workshop. The 26-part series begins airing on public television
stations nationwide on May 5, 2007 (check local listings).
Katie Brown’s appealing and imaginative approach to the home arts has been a breath
of fresh air for a new generation of homemakers. Katie promotes organization,
imagination and a positive outlook as ways to achieve personal satisfaction. Says Katie,
“Public TV viewers and I are in sync with the desire to approach the daily tasks of living
in an affordable way — with creativity, energy and joy.”
From her real-life workshop in Brooklyn and her Manhattan townhouse, Katie tackles
recipes and projects in each episode’s “Cook,” “Grow” and “Nest” segments.
Accompanied by her fellow workshop experts, Katie demonstrates how to plan the
perfect bridal shower, host a Southern-inspired summer barbecue, capture cherished
memories of beach vacations and prepare homemade sweets for Valentine’s Day.
Always with an eye towards family, Katie provides imaginative suggestions for
entertaining and encouraging little ones. In an episode entitled “Early Earners,” Katie’s
inspires young entrepreneurs to open their own neighborhood lemonade stand with
recipes for different lemonades and frozen berry pops, and tips for fashioning a money
apron and a homemade sign.
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PRESS RELEASE
Katie approaches her audience as a young housewife and mother who, along with her
viewers, discovers tricks to cooking, gardening and decorating. She is a trusted friend
offering up fast, easy projects and recipes that “are about shortcuts, having fun and
keeping it real and simple.”
During each episode’s “Cook” segment, Katie prepares a variety of simple but elegant
meals, ranging from poached eggs with pesto to beer-simmered bratwurst and tapenade
puff pastries, along with kid-friendly dishes like tacos and peanut butter and jelly
cornbread sandwiches.
In the “Nest” segments, Katie transforms ordinary items into ornate homemade gifts and
household flourishes. This season, she creates tin window planters, a child-size “doodle
desk,” woven serving trays, candelabras, wrapping paper, vases, stylish food baskets,
backyard fountains, invitations, flower arrangements, denim napkins, draperies, slip
covers, coasters, bird feeders and wreaths, among many others. She also shares her
secrets for adding festive accents to a holiday buffet, labeling for organization and
picture-perfect framing.
In the “Grow” segments, Katie works magic with a variety of Mother Nature’s
accessories like herbs, beach sand or eater plants. In the episode entitled “A Natural
Beauty,” Katie roasts nuts and freezes grapes, then creates a beautiful pressed-leaf
collage.
Brown is a TV veteran with frequent guest appearances on Oprah, Good Morning
America, The Today Show, Live with Regis & Kelly and The Tonight Show, as well as
two previous series, Next Door with Katie Brown, currently airing on Lifetime Real
Women, and All Year Round with Katie Brown on A&E. Katie’s syndicated weekly home
arts column appears in local papers across the country. Katie has authored four books:
Katie Brown Entertains, Katie Brown Decorates and Katie Brown’s Weekend: How to
Make the Most of Your Two Treasured Days. Her new book, Katie Brown Outdoors, will
release in April 2007.
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PRESS RELEASE
Produced in 2006 by Katie Brown Workshop Productions, Katie Brown Workshop II is
presented by American Public Television through the Exchange service at no cost to
public television stations nationwide. The series is made possible by the generous
support of Bonnie Plants and Kraft Foods, Inc.
About American Public Television:
For 45 years, American Public Television (APT) has been a prime source of
programming for the nation’s public television stations. APT distributes more than 300
new program titles per year and has 10,000 hours of programming in its library. It is
responsible for many public television milestones including the first HD series and the
2006 launch of the Create channel featuring the best of public television’s lifestyle
programming. APT is known for its leadership in identifying innovative, worthwhile and
viewer-friendly programming. It has established a tradition of providing public television
stations with program choices that strengthen and customize their schedules, such as
JFK: Breaking the News, Battlefield Britain, Globe Trekker, Rick Steves’ Europe, Great
Museums, Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way, America’s Test Kitchen From Cook’s
Illustrated, Broadway: The Golden Age, Lidia’s Family Table, California Dreamin’ – The
Songs of The Mamas & the Papas, Rosemary and Thyme, P. Allen Smith’s Garden
Home, The Big Comfy Couch, Monarchy With David Starkey, and other prominent
documentaries, dramatic series, how-to programs and classic movies. For more
information about APT’s programs and services, visit APTonline.org.
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EPISODE LISTINGS
KATIE BROWN WORKSHOP II
#201 “A Spring Celebration”
Put some spring in your step, and your next brunch, with fun and easy projects designed
to welcome both the season and good friends. Recipes: herb focaccia bread and turkey
bacon egg frittatas. Projects: a nest-inspired place card and two ways to use roses on a
table.
#202 “Keep ‘em Busy”
Katie knows how to keep children cooking, creating and busy with sure-fire kid-friendly
recipes and projects. Recipes: a healthy taco bar and a kid-friendly cookie bar. Projects:
a nature-inspired gingerbread house and child-size “doodle desk.”
#203 “Lady Luncheon”
Toss out the stodgy image of “ladies who lunch” and create a great garden party for
female friends. Recipes: a salad pizza and green bean salad. Projects: a moss welcome
sign and woven serving trays.
#204 “Green Celebration”
Celebrate one of nature’s favorite colors with elegant projects like a moss window
planter and copper candelabra, and herb-infused recipes, including an herb-rubbed flank
steak and vegetable orzo.
#205 “A Weekend Agenda”
Katie makes the most of those two treasured days — in the garden, around the house
and in the kitchen. Recipes: poached eggs with pesto and coconut cookies. Projects: a
personalized weeding bucket and an album to organize photo CDs.
#206 “Kids in the Garden”
Parents will learn to love creepy crawly critters as much as their children with Katie’s
great projects for a critter grow chart and a lady bug bag. Recipes: garden cupcakes and
oven-fried chicken tenders.
#207 “Love Always”
Forget about dime-a-dozen heart-shaped chocolate boxes and create tasty homemade
gifts like Katie’s truffles and pecan buddies. Projects: special wrapping ideas and a
sparkly vase.
#208 “Backyard Style”
Get cooking outside the kitchen and let your next party spill out of the dining room and
into the backyard. Recipes: beer-simmered bratwurst, burgers and baked beans.
Projects: stylish food baskets and a backyard fountain.
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EPISODE LISTINGS
#209 “Flowers, Flowers Everywhere”
Katie adds color and life to every room with floral hoops and framed flowers then puts a
new twist on classic recipes, including lemon thyme pound cake and rosy fudge.
#210 “Beach Dreams”
Katie captures the delights of a summer at the beach with elegant recipes for plankgrilled white fish and cilantro rice and projects like sand memory frames and frosted
candle globes.
#211 “Who Needs a Wedding Planner?”
Katie’s ideas for invitations and one-flower arrangements and recipes for quiche cups
with shrimp, chicken pinwheels and polenta sandwiches will help keep a wedding day
simple.
#212 “A Perfect Shower”
Celebrate life’s special moments with simple projects — a flower box invitation and a row
of roses — and recipes for turkey sausage skewers, tapenade puff pastries and crab
crostini.
#213 “Farm Stand”
Katie demonstrates how to grow, and then cook, garden-fresh delights from the local
farm stand. Recipes: watermelon with a mint glaze and cider-braised cabbage. Projects:
tin planters.
#214 “Kid’s Party”
Throw a bright and festive party for the little ones with colorful projects like a kids’ table
mat and hanging hoops and tasty treats: ribbon dessert, ice cream sandwiches and
peanut butter and jelly on cornbread.
#215 “Pay it Forward”
Katie makes helping old friends, welcoming new neighbors, or going the extra mile easy
with simple-to-pack and carry meals like shrimp and cheese casserole and caramel
brownies, or homemade gift baskets and fizzy bath balls.
#216 “Early Earners”
Inspire kids to become young entrepreneurs with Katie’s ideas for a neighborhood
lemonade stand. Recipes: lemonades and frozen berry pops. Projects: a money apron
and lemonade sign.
#217 “Down Home Dining”
Katie brings a little Southern charm and hospitality into the home with recipes for skillet
cornbread and BBQ pork and projects such as denim napkins, corn sticker place cards
and tomatoes in a vase.
#218 “Come Home with Katie Brown”
In her home, Katie shares creative tips while chatting with experts about everything from
flooring to draperies.
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EPISODE LISTINGS
#219 “Take the Party Outside”
Katie reveals some of her favorite tried-and-true ideas for taking the party outside.
Recipes: BBQ chicken and corn salad. Projects: food cover-ups and an ice bucket with
flowers.
#220 “A Cabin Feel”
Curl up and get cozy with Katie’s ideas for keeping warm on a cold winter night. Recipes
squash soup, caramel apples and cranberry apple cider. Projects: a cozy slip cover and
twig candles.
#221 “Sports Night”
Katie reclaims the living room on game night with recipes for potato wedges and grilled
cheese three ways, and project ideas for sports-inspired flower arrangements and
tailgating trays and coasters.
#222 “Paper It”
Katie’s inspiring projects and recipes utilize many colors, styles and types of paper
available. Recipes: parchment potatoes and parchment fish. Projects: paper-wrapped
moss boxes and a post-it note board.
#223 “A Natural Beauty”
Katie brings some of Mother Nature’s beauty inside with ideas for roasting nuts and
freezing grapes, and stitching fern leaves and creating a pressed-leaf collage.
#224 “Kids and Fruit”
Get the kids busy and interested in fun and healthy fruit dip sticks, lemon sorbet wedges
and orange cake, and with projects like an orange bird feeder and fruit creatures.
#225 “Holiday”
Good food and good cheer come easy with stylish ideas that provide a new twist on the
traditional. Recipes: potatoes deluxe and classic roast beef. Projects: candle cocktails,
an advent calendar and a holiday wreath.
#226 “Gifts Galore”
Katie shows why it is better (and more fun) to give than to receive with creative and easy
ideas for designer breadsticks and irresistible pretzels, and projects like dressed-up
store-bought gifts and a gift box topiary.
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BIOGRAPHY
KATIE BROWN
People magazine has hailed Katie as “TV’s meat-and-potatoes Martha Stewart,” and
USA Today called her “the doyenne of domesticity for Generation X.” Design, cooking,
entertaining, managing a household, raising a family: Katie does it all, like nobody else.
Her meteoric rise has included successful shows for the Lifetime and Style networks,
popular regular appearances on Oprah, Good Morning America, The Today Show and
Live With Regis and Kelly, and three best-selling books – Katie Brown Entertains, Katie
Brown Decorates and Katie Brown’s Weekends: How to Make the Most of Your Two
Treasured Days. Her next book, Katie Brown’s Outdoor Entertaining, will release in April
2007. Katie’s simple wisdom can also be found in newspapers across the country in a
syndicated weekly column with The New York Times.
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SAMPLE PROJECTS
from Katie Brown
“Grow”
Out with the Weeds…
It can be an exhausting experience to keep your garden from becoming overgrown with
weeds. You have to carry your tools and you end up with piles of weeds in your yard.
Well you don’t have to any longer!
Materials
8 screw hooks
Bushel basket
Green acrylic paint
2-inch sticker letters
White rope
Tools
Paintbrush
Scissors

Attach screw hooks around the outside of your bushel basket and hang up your
tools. Toss weeds in the basket as you go along

Make the basket chic by stenciling on your name using the sticker letters and
acrylic paint and adding a braided rope handle.
“Nest”
Beach Reflections
Close your eyes…you can hear the sounds of the ocean and feel the sand in between
your toes. You wish you could bottle the smells, the sounds, and the sights of your time
spent near the water. Preserve it all in this very modern and minimal wall décor.
Materials
Frames
Sand
Spray adhesive
Pen
Window mats

Remove the glass from a picture frame and affix sand from a favorite vacation
spot to the frame panel with spray adhesive.

Let dry and shake off the excess sand.

Write the name of the vacation locals as you like
Googly Eyes & Smiles
Fill these bags, then fill the hands of your little party guests with festive and fun favors.
Materials
Pipe cleaners
Paper gift bags
Googly eyes
Tools
Craft glue


Punch pipe cleaners into the sides of regular-size gift bags, bend them into the
shape of butterfly-wings, and glue the ends to the inside of the bags
Give the kids a giggle by adding googly eyes on the bags and attaching a brown
pipe cleaner to the bag handles as antennae
“Cook”
Crab Dip Crostini
Hammering and cracking crabs might appear quite unladylike at your afternoon fete.
Here is the perfect resolution so you can have your crab and eat it, too!
Serves 8-10
Ingredients:
1 baguette, cut into 1 inch thick slices
Olive oil, for brushing
Salt
½ cup cream cheese, room temperature
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons heavy cream
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 green onions, chopped
½ cup chopped red bell pepper
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
2 6-ounce cans jumbo lump crabmeat, drained
1. Preheat broiler to high heat.
2. On a cookie sheet, line up baguette slices. Brush lightly with olive oil and season
with a sprinkling of salt.
3. Place under broiler until golden brown. Flip the slices over and broil until golden
brown. Remove and let cool on a rack.
4. In a large mixing bowl, mix cream cheese, mayonnaise, heavy cream, salt, cayenne
pepper, green onions, red bell pepper, lemon juice, and parsley. Stir to completely
combine. Add in the crabmeat and lightly toss to combine.
5. Spoon onto the toasted baguette slices. Serve immediately.
Lollipop Cupcake Garden
Willy Wonka’s got nothing on these dressed-up-store bought delicacies!
Serves 24
Ingredients:
1 box yellow or chocolate cake mix
1 container chocolate frosting
1 package Oreos, crushed
24 suckers
Mint leaves, for leaf garnish
1. Following the package directions, make cupcakes using the box cake mix and let
cool on a baking rack.
2. Frost the cupcakes and coat with the crushed Oreos.
3. Stick in a sucker and garnish the “root” of the sucker with two mint leaves.