Network: FOX
Episodes: 22 (half-hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: September 29, 2015 — May 10, 2016
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Rob Lowe, Fred Savage, William Devane, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Natalie Morales, Hana Hayes, and Connor Kalopsis.
TV show description:
This is legal/family comedy follows a fictional superstar lawyer who transitions from small screen to small town.
Hollywood icon Dean Sanderson, Jr. (Rob Lowe) returns to his hometown after his TV show is suddenly cancelled. He receives a hero’s welcome from his family, especially from his number one fan and father Dean Sanderson, Sr. (William Devane). Head of the family’s real life law firm, he’s infinitely proud of his handsome and successful actor son.
Slightly less impressed is Dean’s younger brother and real life attorney Stewart Sanderson (Fred Savage) who’s now married to Debbie (Mary Elizabeth Ellis), Dean’s high school sweetheart.
Feeling that the time is right for a life of normalcy and value, Dean decides his next move should be to help out at his family’s firm. With no formal legal training (though having a played a successful lawyer on one of television’s most watched shows for eight seasons), he believes he is more than qualified to practice.
His uncompromising and intense character on The Grinder is a far cry from the real life courtrooms where his brother has worked tirelessly for so long. Oblivious to his brother’s concerns and real life due process, clients are delighted to have the supposedly legendary lawyer represent them.
Episode #22 —
Dean Sr.’s malpractice trial is finally at hand and it will come to a surprising conclusion when Stewart gets sidelined, leaving it to the rest of the Sanderson & Yao team to save the firm and find out who has been the secret mastermind behind Cory Manler and Dean Sr.’s case. Stewart is concerned that Dean’s instincts and Grinder-isms won’t be enough to win the day, and Dean is offended by his own brother’s lack of faith.
First aired: May 10, 2016.
What do you think? Do you like The Grinder TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Love the show, love love love the cast, please do not cancel. It’s fresh, different, funny and wonderfully written.
Please do NOT cancel this comedy. It’s the best I’ve seen since Seinfeld. How refreshing to be able to watch a quality program with great acting on a network station!
Hilarious show. I tell all my friends to watch it as many have not given it a chance.
Great show and great cast! They’d have to be fools to cancel this show.
Love the show. Refreshingly different
Love the show! Please renew!
Great show! Rob is funny
I like the show. Rob is extremely funny
This was the best thing that hit tv in ages. Of course it was paired against the voice soot was set to lose! I loved it so much and want it to come back!,,,,,please
Finally something original in TV sitcom. Great cast. Enjoy the lampooning of ALL the court room drama TV shows that have come before. Like self deprecating humor, it is appreciated by others.
I love this show!! Seriously funny. Everybody is great, adults and kids!
Grinder is my favorite show! Great actors & well-written scripts. Please renew the series for another season!
this show is so funny. I love it. Good wholesome comedy…great actors who play off each other so easily. I wish it wasn’t on Fox. Their shows don’t seem to get enough exposure.
I think it is one of the best new shows. Not many comedies on TV and it would be a shame to lose it. Great show to watch after a stressful day and laugh.
We love this show! It is cleverly written with dry humor, well-acted, and the ensemble cast has chemistry and likability. Please keep this wonderful show on the air.