“It’s a hard thing to kind of present in a very simple, one-sentence way,” says creator and executive producer Dmitry Lipkin of FX’s wildly unconventional drama “The Riches.”

“Just the notion that there’s this guy who was in an RV with his family and within a day or two he’s a lawyer and he lives in a big house. … It’s sort of the upwardly mobile American dream magnified times a hundred,” Lipkin says.

Debuting at 10 p.m. Monday, “The Riches” is billed as the cable channel’s first “family” series. It stars British comedian Eddie Izzard as Wayne Malloy, a grifter who with his recently paroled wife, Dahlia (Academy Award-nominated Brit, Minnie Driver), and three kids go on the run after stealing money from the clan of itinerant con artists they’d been living with in Louisiana.

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