[2] Born in London, he emigrated to Canada in 1969 and worked as a freelance editor before meeting ex-schoolteacher Linda Schuyler, with whom he founded the company Playing With Time in 1976.

The shows’ content focused on challenges such as teenage pregnancy, drug use, alcoholism, child abuse, bullying, deaths of parents, and peer pressure.

The two split shortly after, with Schuyler founding Epitome Pictures with Stephen Stohn, leaving Hood in sole control of Playing With Time.

He began operating instead under Timeless Productions,[4] but as of July 1998, still owned the Playing With Time building and sat on the board of the non-profit PWT Foundation,[5] which had been founded originally to support the cast of Degrassi in their future endeavors.

[12] In August 2021, Hood's daughter Georgia created an online petition to have the City of Toronto name a laneway, located in the Leslieville neighbourhood behind the former Playing With Time production office, after him.

[7] In September 2023, actor Pat Mastroianni announced on his Facebook page, Degrassi Tour, that the campaign was successful, with the laneway renamed to "Kit Hood Lane".