"Your Thirty Minutes Starts...NOW!"
"As a Food Network competitor, I swear one of the reasons I did so well under the time-crunch, was because that just seemed like the regular dinner race as a Single Dad!"
~ Host Lee Abbott
Single Dad Dinners is a heartfelt, authentic culinary "how to" series that connects with parents and home cooks everywhere.
Hosted by Lee Abbott, a celebrated Food Network finalist known for his approachable style, warm personality, and relatable single-parent perspective, the show delivers real cooking, real stories, and practical meal solutions on a budget.
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Lee demonstrates to busy parents how they can serve healthy, nutritious meals quickly without sacrificing flavor, using frugal shopping tips, speedy hacks, and chef tricks anyone can follow.
Why It's Different
​"All competition - all the time"
Food Network has lost its soul.
True food lovers are fatigued by reality shows. They’re craving something authentic - real cooking, real stories, and meat on the bone.​
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Authenticity Over Reality-TV: No gimmicks, no competitions - just a real parent cooking for his family and friends, with love and humor.
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Heart & Soul: Lee’s personal journey and challenges as a single dad resonates with millions, creating emotional connection with viewers.
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Practical & Fun: Recipes are approachable, fast, and budget-friendly, appealing to all levels of cooks.
How will it Look?
Santa Barbara Surf n Turf
We Have Distribution!
Food Network's Gorilla Grip is broken
Endorphin Films Productions has our own new
Channel on Roku, named EFTV, providing a global
reach to over 80 Million Roku accounts.
This footprint is doubled by our relationship with our sister channel
Basil & Salt.tv that is also a print magazine - which will be doing features of Single Dad Dinners.
After the initial exclusive release upon ROKU our content will also be syndicated across popular streaming options such as Amazon, Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, and dozens more. Add in a strong Social Media push across all the top platforms, enhanced by the followers of all of our Guests and Sponsors, and our progressive streaming strategy gets us out to millions.
EFTV + Basil & Salt.TV are hosting numerous other content providers too such as Celebrity Chefs Rocco DiSpirito, Gina Neely, Gesine Bullock-Prado, and Joe Sasto with more Celebrity Guests from our 30 years of Hollywood film making. So, if a viewer arrives to the channel via Rocco, or Sandra's sister Gesine... the cross-PR benefits all EFTV Productions.
Nearly 6 Million Views!
The #1 Frozen/Prepared Chicken and Beef products company in the country, John Soules Foods (WalMart, etc.) came to Lee to ask, "What can our customers do beside fill a tortilla?"
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The challenge was to create meals for a Soccer Mom, with less than 15 ingredients, prepared in 30. min or less. In the end, Lee created 64 original recipes - all vetted by the John Soules Foods kitchens.
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This "Speedy Gourmet" series had Social Media goals of a few hundred thousand views... after 3 years they were closing in on
6 Million Views! How's that for Single Dad Dinner's Chef?!
Unique Sponsorship Opportunity
FULL RIGHTS to REUSE & REPURPOSE ANY ASSOCIATED MEDIA.
As an independent production, vs. Food Network or Travel Channel, our Producers have the enormous benefit of literally being able to GIVE our sponsors all of their media to do whatever they want with it.
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From full edited segments, and ready-to-post Social Media clips, to the raw footage for your own re-editing, to pulling single frames of raw video for a print campaign, to even Co-Creating certain segments highlighting your brand. You pay for the Content - you Co-Own it.​
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Sponsorship Benefits
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High-impact brand visibility in authentic, trusted settings.
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Content for social media, advertising, and PR campaigns.
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Engagement with loyal, highly targeted audiences who value family.
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Storytelling integration created to align with Sponsor brand values.
Your Host & Chef on TV
Come join this Single Dad for Dinner
Our Host Lee Abbott is known for his enormous heart and easy connections with folks from all walks of life. He knows what it is like to be a single, overwhelmed parent, and not wanting your kids to eat junk. And if there is one thing he's done right as a parent, it is always saying "YES" when his kids ask him to cook.
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By the way... that dish right there... is Lee's Rosemary, Raspberry, Rosé Reduction over French Lamb "Popsicles". And he loves it when a kid says, "I don't usually eat this kind of food - but it's SO GOOD!"​
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(Partner VIPs are welcome on set. Hope you join us at Dinner!)
An Amuse Bouche of Endorphin's Work
