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Raising Hope
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Intertitle
GenreSitcom
Created byGreg Garcia
StarringLucas Neff
Martha Plimpton
Garret Dillahunt
Shannon Woodward
Gregg Binkley
Cloris Leachman
Opening theme"Daddy-O" by The Freelance Economy
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes53 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerGreg Garcia
ProducerHenry J. Lange Jr.
CinematographyWalt Fraser
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time22 minutes
Production companies20th Century Fox Television
Amigos de Garcia Productions
Original release
NetworkFox
ReleaseSeptember 21, 2010 (2010-09-21)[1] –
present

Raising Hope is a television comedy program first aired on September 21, 2010, on Fox.[1] The series airs on Tuesdays at 8:00 pm.[2][3]

Following its first season, the show received two nominations at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards. Martha Plimpton was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Cloris Leachman was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Plimpton also won the 2011 Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.

On April 9, 2012, Raising Hope was renewed for a third season. The season premiere aired on October 2, 2012 at 8:00 pm. [4]

Premise

Main article: List of Raising Hope episodes

James "Jimmy" Chance is a clueless 24-year-old who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night-stand. Earning custody of his daughter after the mother is sentenced to death and electrocuted, Jimmy relies on his eccentric but well-intentioned family for support in raising the child.

Cast

Main article: List of Raising Hope characters
  • Lucas Neff as James "Jimmy" Chance, Hope's father. He is a 24-year-old who is clueless about raising a child and everything else. Before having Hope, he met and had a one night stand with Lucy Carlyle, resulting in her pregnancy and the birth of Hope. He did not know about Hope until seven months later when Lucy contacted him. He also did not know that Lucy was a serial killer until the morning after their one night stand. Jimmy is harmless and kindhearted. When he was a teenager he went through a phase where he dressed like a goth. Jimmy is a fan of The Lord of the Rings and often does an impression of Gollum, which his family finds irritating.
  • Martha Plimpton as Virginia Chance. Hope's grandmother, Jimmy's mother, and Burt's wife. Virginia conceived Jimmy when she was fifteen (he was born on prom night). Her mother wanted to be a swinger and left her when she was two years old, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother, Maw Maw, who told Virginia that her mother had died when she'd fallen and accidentally hit her head on a duck lawn ornament. Virginia works as a housecleaner.
    • Kelly Heyer as teenage Virginia.
  • Garret Dillahunt as Burt Chance. Hope's grandfather, Jimmy's father, and Virginia's husband. Burt conceived Jimmy with Virginia when he was seventeen. He has a lawn care/pool cleaning business with Jimmy as his assistant.
    • Cameron Moulene as teenage Burt.
  • Shannon Woodward as Sabrina Collins. She works at the nearby grocery market despite coming from a rich family. She spends most of her time drawing on cantaloupes and mixing up the cereals and soup cans. She immediately catches Jimmy's attention, but has a boyfriend who is studying finance in New York. She is extremely nearsighted but usually wears contacts. In the middle of Season 2, Sabrina breaks up with her boyfriend and she and Jimmy decide to start dating each other.
  • Baylie and Rylie Cregut as Hope Chance (born Princess Beyonce Carlyle), Jimmy and Lucy's daughter, Virginia and Burt's granddaughter and Maw Maw's great-great-granddaughter. Hope was conceived in Jimmy's van when he went out to get bubblegum ice cream and met a distressed Lucy Carlyle who he had a one night stand with. Hope is shown to be very intelligent, which she gets from her mother, as she was able to do the shape sorter when she was two while Jimmy wasn't able to do it even when he was four and pass a GED test by randomly filling in the dots. At one point she scared her family by showing violent tendencies which made them think she was going to become a serial killer like Lucy but they realized Lucy was a serial killer because she suppressed her anger and let it out drastically by killing and if they let Hope release her anger normally she'd be just fine.
  • Gregg Binkley as Barney Hughes (Recurring season 1, starring season 2-), the manager at the store where Jimmy and Sabrina work. He used to be overweight but had gastric bypass surgery. Barney also has a large collection of dolls within his home.
  • Cloris Leachman as Barbara June "Maw Maw" Thompson (Recurring season 1, starring season 2-), Virginia's 84-year-old grandmother, Jimmy's great-grandmother, and Hope's great-great-grandmother, who owns the house where the Chances all live. Maw Maw appears to have dementia, and has only short-lived moments of lucidity in which she can be very helpful or very angry about the entire family living in her house. Her moments of lucidity are random, and each member of the household has revolving "dibs" on a task they would like her to accomplish during these times. In early episodes, her billing read, "And Introducing Cloris Leachman as Maw Maw," joking about Leachman's decades-long career in comedy. Later episodes listed her as a "Special Guest Star."
  • Skyler Stone as Mike Chance (Pilot only, guest star thereafter)

Development and production

In June 2009, Fox announced it had booked a put pilot commitment with show creator Greg Garcia.[6]

Actress Olesya Rulin was originally cast as Sabrina, the love interest for Jimmy, and Kate Micucci was added to the cast as Jimmy's cousin.[7] The pilot was filmed in December 2009.[8][9] In March, 2010, Fox decided to recast two roles from the pilot. Shannon Woodward replaced Rulin as Sabrina, Jimmy's love interest.[10] Also recast was the role of Jimmy's cousin, changing from Micucci to male actor Skyler Stone as Mike.[9] With this, Micucci's role changed from Jimmy's cousin to become Shelly, the cousin of his love interest Sabrina.[11]

Fox green-lit the pilot to series with an order in mid-May 2010 for a fall premiere in its 2010–11 television schedule.[12][2]

On January 10, 2011, Fox renewed Raising Hope for a second season.[13] On April 9, 2012, Raising Hope was renewed for a third season.[4]

Reception

Critical reception

Raising Hope has received positive reviews from critics. The show's first season received an average score of 75 out of 100 on Metacritic, meaning it received "generally favorable reviews."[14] Metacritic also reports that 78% of its users gave the show's first season favorable reviews as well.[14]

Tom Gilatto of People Weekly called the show the best new sitcom of the season, favorably comparing it to Malcolm in the Middle. Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times was lukewarm towards the show, stating that "Raising Hope is funny, sweet, occasionally provocative, and occasionally over-the-top in a regrettable way." James Poniewozik of Time Magazine was upbeat, stating that "Neff is amiably charming, Dillahunt and Plimpton give their characters a realism that belies the pilot's often-contemptuous jokes, and maybe 20% of the first episode shows a sweet-heartedness that rises above the easy white-trash humor." While not all of the reviews were positive, they were mostly positive by the end of the first season. Much of the show's praise went to the performances of Martha Plimpton and Garret Dillahunt.[15]

The second season of Raising Hope premiered on September 20, 2011 on Fox, moving to 9:30pm from its original 8:00pm time slot, due to the acquisition of New Girl. The second season received similar positive reviews to the first, with Matt Roush of TV Guide calling it "A treat for anyone who loves a good call-back to classic sitcoms."[16] As of October 2011, the users of Metacritic have given the show's second season a 7.9 out of 10, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[17]

Ratings

Season Timeslot (ET/PT) # Ep. Premiered Ended TV Season Rank Viewers
(in millions)
Date Premiere
Viewers
(in millions) 		Date Finale
Viewers
(in millions)
1
Tuesday 9:00 pm
 		22
September 21, 2010
 7.48[18]
May 17, 2011
 5.40[19] 2010–2011 #85 6.45[20]
2
Tuesday 9:30 pm (September 20, 2011 – February 21, 2012; April 10–17, 2012)
Tuesday 8:00 pm (March 6 – April 3, 2012)
 		22
September 20, 2011
 6.73[21]
April 17, 2012
 3.79[22] 2011–2012 #106 5.64[23]
3
Tuesday 8:00 pm
 		24
October 2, 2012
 3.90[24]
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Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Recipients and nominees Outcome
2010 Satellite Awards Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical Raising Hope Nominated
Jamison Awards Favorite Avery Laugh Award Won
2011 Casting Society of America Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Television Pilot – Comedy Dava Waite Won
Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Martha Plimpton Nominated
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Cloris Leachman Nominated
People's Choice Awards Favorite New TV Comedy Raising Hope Nominated
Satellite Awards Best Actress in a TV series – Comedy or Musical Martha Plimpton Won
Teen Choice Awards Choice TV – Breakout Show Raising Hope Nominated
Television Critics Association Awards Outstanding Achievement in Comedy Nominated
Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Actress in a Comedy Series Martha Plimpton Nominated
Young Artist Awards Best Performance in a TV Series – Recurring Young Actress 11–16 Kelly Heyer Nominated
2012 Motion Picture Sound Editors Best Sound Editing – Music for Short Form Television Sharyn M. Tylk and Susan Ham Won
Young Artist Awards Best Young Actress Recurring in a Television Series Kelly Heyer Nominated
Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Comedy Actress Martha Plimpton Nominated
Best Comedy Actor Garret Dillahunt Nominated
Emmy Awards Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics Matthew Thompson Nominated

International broadcasts

In the United Kingdom, Sky1 picked up the broadcast rights and added the show to its 2010–2011 UK & Ireland autumn schedule, beginning November 2010.[25]

In Portugal, the series premiered on the 29th January 2011 on Fox Life. The English title is Raising Hope.[26]

In Italy, the series premiered on the 3rd of February 2011 on Fox. The Italian title is Aiutami Hope! (Help me Hope!).[27]

In the Czech Republic, the series broadcasts on HBO. This show premiered on the 1st of February 2011. The Czech title is Vychovávat Hope.[28]

In Latin America, the series broadcasts on I.Sat. The show premiered on March 2011.[29]

In Canada, the first season aired on the Global Television Network[30] at the same time as Fox in the US. In 2011, Citytv bought rights from the Global Television Network, and began broadcasting the show.[31] On the morning show that Citytv airs, Breakfast Television, they announced on May 29, 2011 that the series will start airing at 8:00 pm on Tuesdays instead of 9:30pm on Tuesdays due to other FOX series Glee moving to Thurdays at 9:00pm. This will start on September 18, 2012.

References

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  2. ^ a b "Fox Announces Primetime Slate for 2010–2011 Season". The Futon Critic. May 17, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
  3. ^ Nguyen, Hanh (May 17, 2010). "FOX's 2010 Fall TV schedule, night by night". Zap2it. Tribune Media Services. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
  4. ^ a b Andreeva, Nellie (April 9, 2012). "Fox Renews 'Glee', 'New Girl' And Raising Hope". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
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  6. ^ "Development Update: Tuesday, June 30". The Futon Critic. June 30, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
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  11. ^ "Development Update: Thursday, March 18". The Futon Critic. March 18, 2010. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
  12. ^ Schneider, Michael (May 13, 2010). "Fox, NBC, ABC pick up more shows for fall". Variety. Archived from the original on June 3, 2010. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
  13. ^ Sullivan, Brian Ford (January 10, 2011). "Exclusive: FOX Gives "Raising Hope" Second Season". The Futon Critic. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
  14. ^ a b "Raising Hope – Season 1 Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More". Metacritic. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
  15. ^ "Critic Reviews for Raising Hope Season 1". Metacritic. 2010-10-22. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
  16. ^ Reviewed by: Matt Roush (2011-09-20). "Critic Reviews for Raising Hope Season 2". Metacritic. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
  17. ^ Reviewed by: Matt Roush. "Read User Reviews and Submit your own for Raising Hope". Metacritic. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
  18. ^ "TV Ratings Tuesday: 'Glee' Sings; Modest Starts for 'Running Wilde,' 'Raising Hope,' 'Detroit 1–8–7?; 'Parenthood' Down – Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". Tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
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