Harvey Girls Forever!
Harvey Girls Forever! (originally titled Harvey Street Kids in its first season, then retroactively retitled) is an American animated comedy television series produced by Brendan Hay and Aliki Theofilopoulos for DreamWorks Animation Television, and is based on comic book characters from Harvey Comics.[1] It premiered June 29, 2018 on Netflix and originally concluded on January 10, 2020.
Harvey Girls Forever! | |
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Also known as | Harvey Street Kids |
Genre | Animation Comedy |
Based on | Harvey Comics by Alfred Harvey |
Developed by | Emily Brundige |
Voices of | Lauren Lapkus Stephanie Lemelin Kelly McCreary |
Theme music composer | Kay Hanley Michelle Lewis Dan Petty |
Opening theme | "Run This Street" by Lapkus, Lemelin, and McCreary |
Composer(s) | Jay Vincent |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 52 (100 segments) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Brendan Hay |
Producer(s) | Aliki Theofilopoulos (supervising) |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production company(s) | Sky Angel Productions The Harvey Entertainment Company DreamWorks Classics DreamWorks Animation Television |
Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution Netflix |
Release | |
Original network | Netflix |
Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Original release | June 29, 2018 – January 10, 2020 |
Premise
From long kickball games through the many flavors of ice cream to an impressive climbing tree, most days on Harvey Street feels like a weekend. Energetic Audrey, intelligent Dot and kindhearted Lotta are BFFs and the street's guardians. They try to keep Harvey Street great and start their wacky afternoon adventures.[2]
Episodes
Season | Segments | Episodes | Originally released | |||
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1 | 26 | 13 | June 29, 2018 | |||
2 | 24 | 13 | May 10, 2019 | |||
3 | 25 | 13 | November 12, 2019 | |||
4 | 24 | 13 | January 10, 2020 |
Voice cast
- Stephanie Lemelin as Audrey
- Lauren Lapkus as Lotta[3]
- Kelly McCreary (Season 1-4) and Ava Close (Season 5) as Dot[3]
- Grey Griffin[4] as Lucretia / Frufru / The Harvey Street Bow (usually abbreviated as just "The Bow")
- Atticus Shaffer as Melvin[3]
- Danny Pudi as Tiny[3]
- Utkarsh Ambudkar[4] as Fredo
- Roger Craig Smith[4] as Pinkeye / Bobby the Elder
- Jamaal Hepburn as Gerald[4]
- Cree Summer as Zoe
- Chelsea Peretti as Maria
- Nat Faxon as Stu
- Jack Quaid as Richie Rich
- Bobby Moynihan as Casper
- Anna Camp (Season 1) and Wanda Sykes (Season 5) as Chevron
- Dee Bradley Baker[4] as Raccoons
- Chris Diamantopoulos as Additional voices
- Joey McIntyre, Nick Lachey, Joey Fatone, and Shawn Stockman as Crush4U[4]
Production
Harvey Girls Forever! was dawned by artist Katie Rice in 2014 up until 2015. The show started production in Glendale, California on October 9, 2016. The second season was released on May 10, 2019 and was retitled Harvey Girls Forever![5] The third season premiered on November 12, 2019 introducing Richie Rich in the series. The fourth season introducing Casper the Friendly Ghost, premiered on January 10, 2020.[6]
Music
Music and songs are a central feature of Harvey Girls Forever! with showrunners Brendan Hay and Aliki Theofilopoulous Grafft creating a fictional boy band named Crush4U made up of actual boy band members to be the subject of affection for character Lotta.[7] “We've gotten to work... with New Kids on the Block's Joey McIntyre, Boyz II Men's Shawn Stockman, NSYNC's Joey Fatone and 98 Degrees' Nick Lachey in our Harvey Street world created boy band," said Aliki to comicbook.com.[8] Original songs were produced by composers Jay Vincent and Ryan Lofty.[9] As part of the promotion for Harvey Girls Forever season two the songs were made available for free download.[10]
Release
The series premiered on Netflix on June 29, 2018.[11][12][13] It also set broadcast on Family CHRGD in Canada,[14] and Télétoon+ in France.[15]
References
- Matt Davidson (December 13, 2018). "Netflix and Dreamworks Partner for New Shows, Including She-Ra and Boss Baby". IGN. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
- Ramos, Dino-Ray (2017-12-12). "Netflix And DreamWorks Animation TV Reveal Six New Series Including 'Trolls', 'She-Ra'". Deadline. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
- Darwish, Meaghan (June 1, 2018). "'Grey's Anatomy' & 'The Middle' Stars Lend Voices to Netflix's 'Harvey Street Kids' (VIDEO)". TV Insider.
- McLean, Tom (June 1, 2018). "Watch: DreamWorks' 'Harvey Street Kids' Debuts June 29". Animation World Network.
- https://twitter.com/B_Hay/status/1121184667221123072
- http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/harvey-street-kids/listings/
- Darwish, Meaghan (2019-05-07). "Joey Fatone, Nick Lachey & More Boy Banders Get Animated for 'Harvey Girls Forever'". TV Insider. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- Anderson, Jenna (2019-05-10). "Harvey Girls Forever!: Lotta Proves Her Boy Band Knowledge in Exclusive Clip". Comicbook.com. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- Zahed, Ramin (May 9, 2019). "Animated People: Jay Vincent & Ryan Lofty Craft Boy Band Hits for 'Harvey Girls Forever'". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- http://www.crush4u.band/
- "Netflix, Dreamworks Partner for Six Animated Shows in 2018, Including 'Trolls,' 'Boss Baby' Series". Variety. December 12, 2017.
- https://twitter.com/B_Hay/status/999314099237306368%7Cdate=June 29, 2018
- Klopfenstein, Jacob (May 28, 2017). "Netflix adding 82, dropping 40 titles in June". KSL.com. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
- https://www.chrgd.ca/shows/harvey-girls-forever/
- https://www.teletoonplus.pl/filmy/pokaz/harvey-girls-forever---ogladaj-w-teletoon
External links
- Harvey Girls Forever! on Netflix
- Harvey Girls Forever! at DreamWorks
- Harvey Girls Forever! on IMDb