Fox adds Rob Lowe, John Stamos comedies

Fox is teaming up with Rob Lowe and John Stamos for new comedies next season.

The Grinder stars Lowe, most recently in Parks and Recreation, as a TV lawyer known as "The Grinder" who moves home to his small-town family of real lawyers when his hit series ends and figures he can join their firm. Fred Savage (The Wonder Years), who lately has been a director of TV shows, plays Lowe's brother.

Grandfathered stars Stamos (Full House) as a longtime bachelor who discovers he's both a father — and a grandfather. Josh Peck, Paget Brewster and Christina Milian co-star. And a third comedy, The Guide to Surviving Life, is about the "mistakes and misadventures" of post-college years. Life has a six-episode order; the others are for 13, standard for new series.

Also on the docket for next season is Rosewood, a drama starring Morris Chestnut as a "brilliant" Miami pathologist who works in an independent lab and assists a cynical detective (Jaina Lee Ortiz).

The two new series, the first of Fox's formal pickups ahead of Monday's unveiling of its new schedule, join previously announced projects including Scream Queens, a "comedy horror" anthology series about a serial killings on a college campus, from producer Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story) and a remake of The X-Files as a limited series, starring original cast members David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.

The Mindy Project and The Following are among current series expected to exit.