Dete Meserve

Meserve's list of credits span award-winning television series such as Home Improvement and Saint George with George Lopez (Executive Producer) as well as movies What Women Want, the comedy Bernie (Producer), The Keeping Room, and Where the Heart Is. She was an executive producer on What Men Want. Meserve raised the funding for and executive produced 64 episodes of the animated children’s television series Ready Jet Go, which received the Common Sense Media Selection seal,[1] and airs on PBS in the US and in 120 countries around the world. She has also overseen development and production of Ready Jet Go games, merchandise, and apps including Space Explorer[2] and Space Scouts.[3] Meserve was the Executive Producer for the TV specials One Small Step (for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing) and Ready Jet Go: Back to Bortron 7.[4]

Meserve produces animation TV projects through her company, Silver Creek Falls Entertainment, where she is producer on the film Ready Jet Go! Space Camp for Universal Studios/Dreamworks, to be released in July 2023.[5] She is currently in production on an animated TV series based on an award-winning children's book for one of the major streamers (to be announced).

Meserve is the author of the best-selling and multi-award-winning novel Good Sam, about the search for an anonymous Good Samaritan leaving $100,000 on Los Angeles doorsteps.[6] The novel was adapted for a Netflix original film, which received the Dove Foundation seal in 2019,[7][8] and stars Tiya Sircar as Kate Bradley.[9][10] Kirkus Reviews calls Good Sam, "a solid, feel-good romance sparked with mystery."[11] Accolades for Good Sam include the National Indie Excellence Award, the Independent Author Network Outstanding Romance Novel Award, the Gold Medal (Fiction) from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association President's Book Awards, and the Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Award (Women's Fiction).[12] Good Sam's sequels Perfectly Good Crime (2016) and The Good Stranger (2020) each won the Living Now Book Awards for "books that change the world."[13] Her third novel, The Space Between, was published by Lake Union Publishing in July 2018 and was a Once Upon A Book Club August Selection.[14] Her non-fiction book Random Acts of Kindness was a colloboration with journalist Rachel Greco. The true, inspiring tales in Random Acts of Kindness spotlight ordinary people from age nine to one hundred who have found unique ways to show compassion and make a difference. The film adaptation of Random Acts of Kindness is in development with Meserve writing the screenplay. [15][16]

Inspired by Meserve's novel Good Sam, Rotary International has awarded the Good Sam Award since 2021, given each year for "bold and inspiring leadership in advancing human kindness, understanding, and compassion." Meserve was the inaugural recipient;[17] subsequent honorees include Jack McBrayer.[18]

Meserve is a member of the Producers Guild of America,[19] the Writers Guild of America, the Television Academy, and the Writers Guild of Canada.[20][21]

Meserve's speaking engagements include events with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media,[22] the Romance Writers of America,[23] the Palm Springs Writers Guild,[24] the Bentonville Film Festival, Innovate Beverly Hills, City Club of Los Angeles, Women in Entertainment, and Kidscreen.[25] She is an instructor for Rosemont College's Creative Writing MFA program.[26]

Originally a native of Chicago, Illinois, Meserve lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.[27]