Chase Chrisley is giving fans new insight into what they can expect from his family’s upcoming docuseries following his parent’s presidential pardon.
“It’s very different than Chrisley Knows Best, because as I’m sure anyone knows, Chrisley Knows Best was a family sitcom,” Chase told People in an interview published on Tuesday, July 1. “This is just raw, raw footage, raw. I’m like, ‘Can we go back to Chrisley Knows Best?’ Yeah, ‘Let’s just laugh.’”
Since the family’s inaugural reality TV series, Chrisley Knows Best, came to an end in March 2023, fans have been unable to see Todd Chrisley and his wife, Julie Chrisley, showcase their family life with kids, Chase, Savannah and Grayson Chrisley. (The couple also share adopted daughter Chloe, and Todd has two older kids from a previous relationship.)
In May, news broke that Lifetime was working with the Chrisley family on a new docuseries tentatively titled The Untitled Chrisleys Project following Todd and Julie’s arrest and subsequent conviction for bank fraud and tax evasion — acts the couple still deny.
“The Chrisleys don’t know best anymore,” a Lifetime statement said when teasing the upcoming project. “But they’re doing their best to be there for each other.”
After president Donald Trump issued full pardons for the couple in May, the docuseries will now include the couple’s return home and attempts to establish a new “normal” in the wake of their incarceration.
“We were actually at the tail end of filming,” he explained. “We’re still filming a little bit. I feel like for so long on Chrisley Knows Best, I played a character. Savannah played a character. We all did. We’re actually being able to be open and vulnerable, and show the highs, and show the lows, and no matter how low we get kicked down, we’re still going to get back [up].”
Now that his parents are free and able to participate in the new docuseries, Chase teases that the show will take on a whole new tone, adding that his father came out “guns blazing.”
“He’s ready for anybody and everybody,” he told the publication. “Anybody that knows anything about my dad knows that it’s changed.”
While the family is adjusting to having their matriarch and patriarch back at home and in front of the cameras, Chase says that in the end the pardon — and his parents’ involvement in the upcoming series — is a blessing.
“It’s an amazing adjustment, obviously,” he said. “I feel like throughout the entire process, even once, after the conviction, even after they went away, I knew deep down that like, ‘This is not it. This is not the end result. So I feel like I was carrying around, just waiting, waiting, waiting for something to happen.”
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