Rob Lowe Accepts Best Show That Got Canceled on Behalf of ‘The Grinder’

It was a sad day when Fox said goodbye to The Grinder, one of the best-reviewed shows of 2015, after it found its fine comedy groove last spring. As we wrote when we nominated it for Best Show That Got Canceled in 2016 in our reader-voted Yahooies, “Rob Lowe’s starring stint as actor turned wannabe lawyer Dean Sanderson seemed like the television role he had been waiting for. Ditto for fellow ’80s star Fred Savage, who played his brotherly other half in this clever comedy that riffed on melodramatic procedurals and sibling rivalry. We had high hopes for a long run, with its smart writing, familiar cast, and hilarious premise.”

So did viewers: It won that bittersweet award with 31 percent of the vote.

“We, at The Grinder, had always hoped to make a show so good, so funny and so odd, that it would be unceremoniously dumped after 22 episodes,” Lowe tells Yahoo TV in a statement. “Thank you, for making our dreams come true! We are humbled.”

Over the summer, Savage told us why he and Lowe would never stop grinding. We salute you, gentlemen.

Season 1 of The Grinder is streaming on Netflix.

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