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Big City Greens is an American animated comedy-adventure television series created by The Houghton Brothers that premiered on D Tor Channel on May 5, 2000, and produced by Houghton Bros. Studios, Wang Film Productions, D Tor Toon Animation Television, and Dereck Torres Animation Television. The series features the voices of Chris Houghton, Marieve Herington, Bob Joles, and Artemis Pebdani.

The Houghton Brothers originally pitched the idea after being based on aspects that would make the show what it is, and afterwards Houghton Bros. Studios, D Tor Toon Animation Television, Dereck Torres Animation Television, and Wang Film Productions aired a test short on D Tor Channel on TBA 1997 in hopes of making the channel greenlight the show's production. The pilot was initially successful, and got the greenlit from D Tor Channel.

The series officially premiered on D Tor Channel on May 5, 2000. Big City Greens is one of Dereck Torres Animation Television's most commercially successful franchises (behind the Derecktoons); it received consistently high viewership in the United States becoming D Tor Channel's highest-rated series. This became D Tor Channel's longest-running animated series of all time. Television critics praised the show for its animation, humor, and music. The series' popularity has made it a media franchise, as well as one of the highest-rated series to ever air on any D Tor television network, and the most distributed property of EzekielTorres Domestic Media Networks. As of 2020, the media franchise has generated $13 billion in merchandising revenue for D Tor Productions.

It gained over 20 awards during its original run, including TBA Emmy Awards and TBA Annie Awards. As a result of the show's popularity, a feature-length film titled Big City Greens: The Movie was released in theaters on November 25, 2005. A sequel, Big City Greens: Chipocalypse Now, was released on May 5, 2016. A third film, Big City Greens: The Search for Phoenix, will be released in theaters and on EzekielTorres Now on July 2, 2021. As of May 2020, all prior seasons of the show were released on EzekielTorres Now.

The series spawned two spin-off series: Green Beyond, which ran from 2010 to 2015 and Camp Country: Cricket's Under Years, a computer-animated spin-off series, debuted in March 2021 on the streaming service EzekielTorres Now. Currently, Big City Greens is on its 13th season, which began on November 10, 2019, and will conclude on April 24, 2021. On July 15, 2020, D Tor Channel renewed the series for a fourteenth season, and announced that Big City Greens would be having more spinoffs with another one called The Remy Remington Show, focusing on Remy Remington, his parents, and his bodyguard.

Premise
The series focuses on the Green family. After losing his farm in the country, Bill Green and his two children, Cricket and Tilly, move in with his mother Alice (Gramma), who lives on a small farm in the middle of a city known as "Big City."

Development
The Houghton Brothers originally pitched the idea of a country farm family moving to the Big City, and afterwards Houghton Bros. Studios, Wang Film Productions, D Tor Toon Animation Television, and Dereck Torres Animation Television aired a test short on D Tor Channel on TBA 1999 in hopes of making the channel greenlit the show's production. The pilot was initially successful, and got the greenlit from D Tor Channel and was picked up as a series in January 2000.

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