Big City Greens

Big City Greens is an animated Disney Channel original series created by Chris and Shane Houghton.[2] The series premiered on June 18, 2018,[3] on Disney Channel and premiered on Disney XD later that same year.

Since November 2019, the show is currently in its second season. Episodes air on Disney Channel, with reruns on Disney XD.

Premise
10-year-old[4] country boy Cricket Green and his family move to the Big City to live with Gramma Alice. There, he and his older sister Tilly meet and make new friends, including new best friend Remy Remington, cafe co-worker and friend Gloria Sato and others. While getting used to his new surroundings, Cricket tries to make the most of his time in Big City, while learning new morals along the way.

History
The series was created by Chris and Shane Houghton, who originally worked on Nickelodeon's Harvey Beaks. Along with the Emmy Award-winning director Rob Renzetti (creator of My Life as a Teenage Robot, supervising producer for Gravity Falls and executive producer of the 2017 reboot of DuckTales) serves as executive producer and the Houghton brothers serve as co-executive producers.

Pre-production
The series (originally titled Country Club) was greenlit by Disney in 2012.[11]. They had worked on Gravity Falls and then for Nickelodeon's Harvey Beaks in 2015.

Initial production of Big City Greens took place between 2014 and 2017.

In March 2016, Disney XD had greenlit two new original shows, Big City Greens and Billy Dilley's Super Duper Subterranean Summer, which would be released throughout the 2017-2018 period.

Following about a year after its announcement, on July 21, 2017, an official main title was released on Disney XD YouTube channel, with the series being renamed from Country Club to Big City Greens.

In late November, a sneak peek of the series was unveiled and shown at the CTN expo. [12][13]

On April 2, Chris announced via Twitter that the series had moved from its original channel, Disney XD, to Disney Channel [14] [15] for the Summer 2018 season.

A second season was greenlit ahead of the show's premiere. In addition to the series' renewal and subsequent June 18th premiere, there were guest voices planned for the show. This included Jon Hamm, Raven-Symoné, Busta Rhymes, Danny Trejo, Lorraine Toussaint, Jim Rash, Paul F. Tompkins, Lauren Lapkus, Andy Daly, Scott Aukerman, McElroy, Paul Scheer, Zeno Robinson, Colton Dunn and Anna Akana.[16]

On June 7th, the series was being promoted at the Pixar Fest, alongside the then-upcoming Pixar film, Incredibles 2.[17]

In addition to a 46-second sneak peek, ComicBook revealed that the series premiere was made available on DisneyNOW beginning Friday, June 8, ten days ahead of its airing.[18]

Production
The series is pre-production by Disney Television Animation, with the outsourcing animation done by the South Korean animation studios Sugarcube and Rough Draft Korea; the former known for its work on Star vs. the Forces of Evil amongst other shows.[19].