For a while now, the Chrisley household has been aiming to make a TV comeback years after the cancellation of their USA Community present, Chrisley Is aware of Greatest. Their new mission is really coming collectively now, although, as Lifetime has ordered the Chrisleys’ new present to collection. Since that announcement although, there’s been a serious improvement – the heads of the household, Todd and Julie, have been launched from jail after being pardoned. An insider dished on how this impacts the present, they usually name-dropped Wendy Williams within the course of.
The at present untitled Chrisley TV mission was introduced close to the top of Could. It was confirmed on the time that the fact collection could be headlined by Savannah Chrisley and her siblings, Chase, Gryason and Chloe in addition to their grandmother, Nanny Faye. A synopsis was additionally launched, which teased how the present would deal with the youngsters’ private lives and their struggles to take care of the absences of their imprisoned mother and father.
Contemplating that Julie and Todd Chrisley at the moment are free, it goes with out saying {that a} portion of the collection’ synopsis is actually moot now. Nevertheless, if the aforementioned supply’s feedback to Persons are be believed, the producers behind the present at the moment are taking a fluid method amid the adjustments within the brood’s state of affairs:
The present remains to be filming and can proceed to, although the household’s state of affairs is evolving quickly. Nobody knew this pardon would occur and the purpose is to cowl their lives in actual time, however issues have considerably modified for all of them and everybody within the household, in addition to producers, are attempting to determine it out and inform their genuine story.
As difficult as this all might sound, it might appear that the artistic group isn’t actually sweating it. The insider cites the beforehand talked about speak present host as a key purpose for that:
However the producers are used to this. It’s just like Wendy Williams. When filming started on her doc, they thought they had been going to do one sort of present after which the whole lot modified.
In 2024, Lifetime launched The place is Wendy Williams?, a four-part docuseries that focuses on the previous media character within the aftermath of her eponymous present’s cancellation. The present additionally covers Williams’ well being struggles and her placement below guardianship. Experiences have since indicated that manufacturing on that collection modified as time went on. In the end, the doc sparked controversy, with some viewers calling it exploitative and exhausting to look at. One in all Williams’ former producers expressed their misgivings about it, whereas the EPs behind the docuseries claimed Williams was positive with the way in which it turned out.
Todd and Julie Chrisley’s state of affairs is, after all, a lot completely different. Information of their pardons broke in late Could, at which level daughter Savannah expressed pleasure. The couple was discovered responsible of financial institution fraud, tax evasion and extra in 2022, with Julie and Todd subsequently receiving seven and 12-year jail sentences, respectively. Savannah advocated for them during the last a number of years and ultimately labored with presidential “pardon czar” Alice Marie Johnson to have her mother and father launched.
Effectively forward of the Chrisleys’ launch, there was uncertainty concerning whether or not Todd and Julie could be concerned with the present. That doesn’t appear to be a query at this level. Nonetheless, Alice Marie Johnson suggested that the married pair take a while to gather themselves as they reintegrate themselves into society. No matter whether or not Julie and Todd take that recommendation, their household is returning to the small display sooner or later amid the 2025 TV schedule and, given how issues have modified, it’s very doable that they’ll be on the collection.