Life can change in a snap either for better or for worse. No matter what life throws at you, you have a family by your side. This is the lesson Jimmy Chance (Lucas Neff) learns in Jack TV’s Raising Hope. Catch the special pilot episode tonight at 8 before the exclusive season premiere next year.
Raising Hope follows the story of the Chance Family and how they go about welcoming an unexpected new member into their dysfunctional household.
Meet 23-year-old pool cleaner Jimmy who is going nowhere in life. Partying every night, he still lives at home with his zany family made up of his Maw Maw (Cloris Leachman), his mother Virginia (Martha Plimpton) and his father Burt (Garret Dillahunt). His life takes a drastic turn after a chance romantic encounter with a wanted felon, Lucy (Bijou Philips). After a couple of months, Jimmy learns he is to be a father and is charged with raising their daughter Hope as Lucy is now in prison.