City Guys is an American television sitcom that aired for five seasons on NBC from September 6, 1997, to December 15, 2001.
The boys and their friends dealt with the typical teen issues, such as cheating on tests, peer pressure, racism, and dealing with school violence.
In September 1997, NBC announced City Guys would be a new series on the networks Saturday morning TNBC lineup.
[2] The series was described by John Miller, then NBC’s executive VP of advertising, promotion and event programming, as having a more "urban feel" in comparison to other TNBC sitcoms air of " middle America with California hipness".
City Guys ran in syndication on local television stations throughout the United States from September 10, 2001 to September 13, 2002, Tribune Entertainment, which distributed the series (its corporate sister at the time, Tribune Broadcasting, incidentally, was the primary station group carrying the series), sold the series as a syndication package–alongside fellow TNBC sitcom California Dreams–for stations to count towards educational programming guidelines set by the Federal Communications Commission.