page_title: Lou Grant
section_title: Los Angeles Tribune
hierarchical_section_title: Lou Grant / Fictional biography / Los Angeles Tribune
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Ed Asner as Lou Grant, Nancy Marchand as Mrs. Pynchon and Mason Adams as Charlie Hume from the television program Lou Grant.
context_page_description: Louis Grant is a fictional character played by Ed Asner in two television series produced by MTM Enterprises for CBS. The first was The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a half-hour light-hearted situation comedy in which the character was the news director at fictional television station WJM-TV in Minneapolis. A spinoff series, entitled Lou Grant, was an hour-long serious dramatic series that frequently engaged in social commentary, featuring the character as city editor of the fictional Los Angeles Tribune. Although spin-offs are common on American television, Lou Grant remains one of a very few characters to have a leading role on both a popular comedy and a popular dramatic series.
context_section_description: Soon thereafter, he wrote to his former co-worker, Charlie Hume (Mason Adams), inquiring about the possibility of work; when Hume confirmed that he knew of a position for him, Grant relocated to Los Angeles, to work with him at the fictitious Los Angeles Tribune, as the paper's City Editor, returning him to newspaper work.  His subordinates at that time included staff reporters Joe Rossi (Robert Walden); Billie Newman (Linda Kelsey); her predecessor, Carla Mardigian (Rebecca Balding); and photographer Dennis "Animal" Price (Daryl Anderson).  His assistant city editor was Art Donovan (Jack Bannon). Charlie Hume was now his boss, who ultimately reported to publisher Margaret Jones Pynchon (Nancy Marchand).  They, like those back at WJM, became his family. In the last episode of season one it is revealed that he has just turned 50, which would have meant he began serving in WWII at about the age of 14.
caption: Grant with Mrs. Pynchon and Charlie Hume.
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