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==Concurrent appearance==
==Concurrent appearance==
Rob Lowe also appears as a Vatican priest -- Father Jude Sutton -- in the comedy/drama TV series {{You, Me and the Apocalypse|You, Me and the Apocalypse}}.
Rob Lowe also appears as a Vatican priest -- Father Jude Sutton -- in the comedy/drama TV series [[You, Me and the Apocalypse|You, Me and the Apocalypse]].


==References==
==References==

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The Grinder
File:TheGrinderLogo.png
GenreSitcom
Created byJarrad Paul
Andrew Mogel
Starring
ComposerJeff Cardoni
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes12 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
CinematographyRhet W. Bear
EditorsJeremy Cohen
Tara Timpone
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time21–24 minutes[1]
Production companiesPaul Mogel Network Television
Stoller Global Solutions
The Detective Agency
20th Century Fox Television
Original release
NetworkFox
ReleaseSeptember 29, 2015 (2015-09-29) –
present

The Grinder is an American single-camera legal comedy television series created by Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel. The show was picked up to series by Fox on May 8, 2015[2] and premiered on September 29, 2015.[3] On October 15, 2015, Fox ordered an additional six scripts for the first season, potentially increasing the season order to 19 episodes.[4] On October 27, 2015, Fox ordered a full season of 22 episodes for the first season.[5]

Plot

The series follows television actor Dean Sanderson, Jr. (Rob Lowe), who returns to his hometown of Boise, Idaho, after his long-running television series, The Grinder, ends. Though Dean is not a lawyer, he believes that his experience playing one on television makes him qualified to practice law. He decides to join his family's law firm, Sanderson & Yao, much to the chagrin of his younger brother Stewart (Fred Savage), who is a real-life lawyer.

Cast

Main

  • Rob Lowe as Dean Sanderson, Jr., an actor who played the role of attorney Mitch Grinder on the long-running TV show, The Grinder.[6]
  • Fred Savage as Stewart Sanderson, Dean's brother who is a real-life attorney.[6]
  • Mary Elizabeth Ellis as Debbie Sanderson, Stewart's wife.[6]
  • William Devane as Dean Sanderson, Sr., Dean and Stewart’s father and head of the law firm.[6]
  • Natalie Morales as Claire Lacoste, a new associate in the Sanderson & Yao law firm who is resistant to Dean's romantic advances.
  • Hana Hayes as Lizzie Sanderson, Stewart and Debbie's 15-year-old daughter.[6]
  • Connor Kalopsis as Ethan Sanderson, Stewart and Debbie's 13-year-old son.[6]

Recurring

  • Steve Little as Todd, an attorney of questionable skill who works at Sanderson & Yao.
  • Timothy Olyphant as a fictionalized version of himself, star of The Grinder: New Orleans, after convincing Dean to quit the show.

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
1"Pilot"Jake KasdanJarrad Paul & Andrew MogelSeptember 29, 2015 (2015-09-29)1AYV014.98[7]
Dean Sanderson, Jr. is a famed actor who starred in the legal drama series The Grinder for eight seasons. After the series ends, he is left wondering what to do with his life, while temporarily living with his lawyer brother Stewart and his family. With his brother and father both being lawyers, and his experience "practicing law" on television, Dean feels he has what it takes to be an actual lawyer. In doing so, he assists Stewart in a case involving a couple being wrongfully evicted from their apartment building.
2"A Hero Has Fallen"Jake KasdanJarrad Paul & Andrew MogelOctober 6, 2015 (2015-10-06)1AYV023.15[8]
Dean encourages the law firm to take the case of a couple that was fired from their job for violating a no-dating policy. Stewart notices that an annoying character from The Grinder is very similar to him, so he decides to be more lenient about life.
3"The Curious Disappearance of Mr. Donovan"Jay ChandrasekharDominic DierkesOctober 13, 2015 (2015-10-13)1AYV042.53[9]
When confidential information on a case that the firm is working on leaks, Dean believes that Claire, who is newly hired by Sanderson & Yao, is the mole. Dean then learns that Todd (unintentionally) leaked the information, but he tries to hide it from Stewart because he doesn't want to admit he was wrong. Meanwhile, Ethan and Lizzie refuse to fess up on who deleted an episode of Ray Donovan from the family DVR.
4"Little Mitchard No More"John HamburgHayes DavenportOctober 20, 2015 (2015-10-20)1AYV032.86[10]
Dean continues to make romantic advances on Claire and tries to meet common ground with her by helping her work on a case involving a school bully. Stewart thinks that his snooty neighbors, the Gerharts, Lyle (Nat Faxon) and Vanessa (Alexie Gilmore), are only being friendly with him and Debbie because they are related to Dean.
5"A Bittersweet Grind (Une Mouture Amer)"Matt SohnSean ClementsNovember 3, 2015 (2015-11-03)1AYV052.52[11]
In an effort to perk up Dean's love life and get him to move out of their house, Stewart and Debbie set up Dean with Gail Budnick (Christina Applegate), an old high school girlfriend. Stewart and Debbie then become worried that Dean is jumping into his relationship with Gail too fast, with him already considering himself the surrogate father of Gail's adult son. Elsewhere, Lizzie gets upset when Stewart and Debbie allow Ethan to bring a girl over, feeling it is a double standard because they won't allow her to date.
6"Dedicating This One to the Crew"Phil TraillGuy Endore-KaiserNovember 10, 2015 (2015-11-10)1AYV082.56[12]
The school play is coming up and Stewart encourages Ethan to join the crew, as he did back in school, but it appears that Ethan would rather follow in the footsteps of his Uncle Dean. When Ethan does not get the role despite Dean's coaching, Dean learns that the current drama teacher is a former classmate who still holds a grudge.
7"Buckingham Malice"Christine GernonJulius SharpeNovember 17, 2015 (2015-11-17)1AYV072.37[13]
Dean becomes tired of getting special treatment because he is a celebrity, and wants to be treated like a regular person. His new way of life leads to him demanding that a cop give him a traffic ticket for running a stop sign, something he would have gotten away with in the past, only to learn that "normal people" often fight their traffic tickets in court. Debbie deals with an incompetent new secretary, whom she does not want to fire after already recently firing two previous secretaries, feeling it will look bad on her.
8"Giving Thanks, Getting Justice"Jamie BabbitNiki Schwartz-WrightNovember 24, 2015 (2015-11-24)1AYV062.25[14]
Dean is looking forward to a real family Thanksgiving, and is disappointed when Stewart says the family no longer celebrates it. After some digging, Dean learns it is because Stewart caught his mother and Yao, his dad's law firm partner, in the bedroom five years ago on Thanksgiving, and he hasn't yet told their dad. Making things worse, Dean Sr. indulges his son and decides the family will celebrate Thanksgiving this year, and he invites Yao (Clyde Kusatsu) to attend. Meanwhile, Dean has flashbacks to his final episodes of The Grinder, and his arguments with writer-director Cliff Bemis (Jason Alexander) that led to him departing the series.
9"Grinder Rests in Peace"Max WinklerSally Bradford McKennaDecember 1, 2015 (2015-12-01)1AYV092.41[15]
Cliff Bemis shows up in town wanting Dean to reprise his role as Mitch Grinder in the spin-off series The Grinder: New Orleans, starring Timothy Olyphant as Mitch's brother Rake. Dean is excited about coming back, only to later learn that he is being invited back to the show to be killed off. Dean proposes a different storyline to Bemis, wherein Mitch starts a new life in Key West. Stewart is more than happy to help Dean look for loopholes in his TV contract, seeing this as an opportunity to get his brother out of the house and out of the law firm.
10"The Olyphant in the Room"Gail MancusoSean Clements & Dominic DierkesJanuary 5, 2016 (2016-01-05)1AYV132.13[16]
Claire's relationship with Timothy Olyphant continues to grow, with a jealous Dean taking the lead in a vandalism case trying to connect Timothy as the culprit even though both situations have nothing do with each other. A newspaper reporter follows Stewart around for a story, however, the story's focus then takes a turn to be about Dean.
11"Exodus"Jeremy GarelickJustin NowellJanuary 19, 2016 (2016-01-19)1AYV101.97[17]
When Stewart and Debbie ask Dean about his "future plans", he assumes they are kicking him out and takes it badly. Seeing Dean down in the dumps, a rival law firm tries to convince him to come and work for them.
12"Blood is Thicker than Justice"Tristram ShapeeroBridget Kyle & Vicky LuuJanuary 26, 2016 (2016-01-26)1AYV112.00[18]
Dean begins working for the law firm Rozz & Landy, and goes up against Stewart in a divorce case. It soon becomes clear to Stewart that Rozz & Landy hired Dean for his celebrity status so he can entertain and impress clients, and Dean eventually catches on. Todd thinks that he and Claire will be he new "will they/won't they" couple in the office with Dean gone, and Claire has some fun playing along. In the end, Dean returns to the firm and drops a bombshell on Stewart and Debbie at home...he has bought and leveled the houses adjacent to their back yard, and plans to build his dream home there.
13"Grinder vs. Grinder"[19]UnknownUnknownFebruary 2, 2016 (2016-02-02)1AYV12N/A
14"The Retooling of Dean Sanderson"[19]UnknownUnknownFebruary 9, 2016 (2016-02-09)1AYV14N/A
15"The Ties That Grind"[19]UnknownUnknownFebruary 16, 2016 (2016-02-16)TBAN/A

Reception

Critical reception

The Grinder has received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the season has a rating of 93%, based on 53 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Grinder's humor is buoyed by Rob Lowe and Fred Savage's chemistry as a hilarious new odd couple."[20] On Metacritic, the season has a score of 71 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[21]

Accolades

Year Association Category Nominee(s) Result
2016 6th Critics' Choice Television Awards[22] Best Actor in a Comedy Series Fred Savage Nominated
Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series Timothy Olyphant Won
73rd Golden Globe Awards[23] Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy Rob Lowe Nominated
42nd People's Choice Awards[24] Favorite Actor in a New TV Series Nominated
Favorite New TV Comedy The Grinder Nominated

Concurrent appearance

Rob Lowe also appears as a Vatican priest -- Father Jude Sutton -- in the comedy/drama TV series You, Me and the Apocalypse.

References

  1. ^ "The Grinder". Amazon.com. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
  2. ^ Development Update from The Futon Critic (May 7, 2015)
  3. ^ "TV Premiere Dates 2015: The Complete Guide". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  4. ^ Ausiello, Michael (October 15, 2015). "Fox's Grandfathered, The Grinder Receive Order for 6 Additional Scripts". TVLine. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
  5. ^ Ausiello, Michael (October 27, 2015). "The Grinder Scores Full-Season Order". TVLine. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d e f "Fox Announces New Primetime Series for 2015-2016 Season". Fox. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  7. ^ Dixon, Dani (September 30, 2015). "Tuesday Final Ratings: 'The Voice', + 'NCIS', Adjusted Up; 'Best Time Ever' Adjusted Down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  8. ^ Porter, Rick (October 7, 2015). "Tuesday final ratings: 'The Muppets,' 'NCIS' and 'Scream Queens' adjusted up, 'Flash' and 'iZombie' hold". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
  9. ^ Porter, Rick (October 14, 2015). "Tuesday final ratings: 'The Flash' and 'NCIS' adjusted up, 'Chicago Fire' holds". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  10. ^ Porter, Rick (October 21, 2015). "Tuesday final ratings: 'NCIS' and 'Limitless' ajdusted up, 'Chicago Fire' adjusted down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  11. ^ Porter, Rick (November 4, 2015). "Tuesday final ratings: 'Fresh Off the Boat' and 'Best Time Ever' adjust up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  12. ^ Porter, Date=November 11, 2015. "Tuesday final ratings: 'Chicago Fire' adjusts down, 'NCIS' adjusts up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 11, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ Porter, Rick (November 18, 2015). "Tuesday final ratings: 'Flash' and 'NCIS' adjust up, 'Chicago Med' premiere holds". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  14. ^ Porter, Rick (November 25, 2015). "Tuesday final ratings: 'NCIS' adjusts up, everything else steady". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  15. ^ Porter, Rick (December 2, 2015). "Tuesday final ratings: 'Fresh Off the Boat' and 'Rudolph' adjust up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved December 2, 2015.
  16. ^ Porter, Rick (January 6, 2015). "Tuesday final ratings: 'NCIS' and 'NCIS: New Orleans' adjust up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  17. ^ Porter, Rick (January 21, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'Chicago Fire' and 'Hollywood Game Night' adjust up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
  18. ^ Porter, Rick (January 27, 2016). "Tuesday final ratings: 'Chicago Med' adjusts up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  19. ^ a b c "Shows A-Z – grinder, the on fox". The Futon Critic. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  20. ^ "The Grinder (2015)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  21. ^ "The Grinder: Season 1 reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  22. ^ Tim Gray. "2016 Critics' Choice Award Nominations: 'Mad Max,' 'Fargo' Lead Race - Variety". Variety.
  23. ^ LA Times Staff (December 10, 2015). "Golden Globes 2016: Complete List of Nominees". LA Times. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  24. ^ "42nd People's Choice Awards Winners and Nominees". People's Choice Awards. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
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