[1] The series starred McCarthy as Jenny McMillan, a convenience store clerk in upstate New York who suddenly inherits a vast fortune from the B movie star father (George Hamilton) she never knew (who appears on TV in movies and commercials he appeared in).

After her father's funeral, Jenny and her lifelong friend Maggie (Heather Paige Kent) decide to pursue fame in Hollywood.

The series, originally scheduled on Sundays opposite the second half of CBS's Top 5 hit Touched by an Angel, Fox's Top 15 hit King of the Hill, and the last half-hour of ABC's Top 40 hit The Wonderful World of Disney,[2] was moved to Monday nights in December 1997 in an attempt to gain more viewers.

[3] The move failed to attract more viewers and Jenny was canceled after 10 of the 17 episodes produced were aired.

In an episode seen only outside the United States, Guy turned out not to be dead only missing.