--- ---  # John Stamos Sitcom Greenlit as Fox Bets on Male Comedy Leads by [James Hibberd and Natalie Abrams / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd and Natalie Abrams / Entertainment Weekly May 8, 2015 3:05 AM UTC  John Stamos arrives at the fourth annual Reel Stories, Real Lives event benefiting the Motion Picture & Television Fund at Milk Studios in Hollywood on April 25, 2015 John Stamos arrives at the fourth annual Reel Stories, Real Lives event benefiting the Motion Picture & Television Fund at Milk Studios in Hollywood on April 25, 2015Amanda Edwards—WireImage by [James Hibberd and Natalie Abrams / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd and Natalie Abrams / Entertainment Weekly May 8, 2015 3:05 AM UTC Are men back? Four years after ushering in a wave of female-fronted comedies with _New Girl_, Fox is now betting on a trio of charming men to lead its newest wave of sitcoms. The network just gave series orders to two pilots, one starring TV veteran John Stamos and another starring newcomer Broadway actor Jack Cutmore-Scott. The duo join a new Fox comedy starring Rob Lowe that was [announced earlier today](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/06/grinder-rob-lowe-rosewood-fox). The Stamos series is titled _Grandfathered_, and it has the former _Full House_ star playing a version of himself: a longtime bachelor whose life is upended after he learns he’s a father and grandfather. The Cutmore-Scott project is called _The Guide to Surviving Life_ and it “celebrates the mistakes and misadventures people make during the years after college before settling down.” Earlier, Fox picked up Lowe’s _The Grinder_ (a project that’s an odds-on favorite for getting a name change before this fall), about a beloved TV lawyer who takes over his family’s small-town law firm when his hit series ends. Two of the titles are more like family comedies than about single men per se, and none are directly targeting young men. Still, all have male leads, and come several years after Fox helped usher in sitcom programming trend centered around single young professional women that started with the network’s own _New Girl_, then expanded to include CBS’ _2 Broke Girls_, Fox’s _The Mindy Project_ and ABC’s _Don’t Trust the B—_ and others. Fox might have been heartened by the performance of its Will Forte midseason comedy _Last Man on Earth_, which is one of the few new comedies this season to have any traction. For Lowe, the series order gets the _Parks and Recreation_ star back to primetime without missing a beat. While for Stamos, this is the actor’s first regular gig since a run on USA’s _Necessary Roughness_ in 2013 (and before that, on NBC’s short-lived _The New Normal_ that same year). Cutmore-Scott is an unknown to U.S. audiences so this order represents a major break, though he did appear in the recent spy-spoof _Kingsman: The Secret Service_. [_This article originally appeared on EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/07/john-stamos-male-fox-comedy) John Stamos Sitcom Greenlit as Fox Bets on Male Comedy Leads ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3851366/john-stamos-full-house-grandfathered-fox-new-girl-jack-cutmore-scott/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3851366/john-stamos-full-house-grandfathered-fox-new-girl-jack-cutmore-scott/"},"headline":"John Stamos Sitcom Greenlit as Fox Bets on Male Comedy Leads","datePublished":"2015-05-08T03:05:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:02:34.556Z","description":"Are men back? 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