Lou Grant serves up front-page news on political corruption, freedom of the press, nursing home fraud, nuclear protest, chequebook journalism and more, but always dealing with the lives of real people, and always handled in a tough, yet understanding manner by the city editor. |
Ed
Asner stars as the tough-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside city editor
of the Los Angeles Tribune. The newspaper is owned and run by the very
proper and business-minded Margaret Pynchon (Nancy Marchand). The rest
of her journalistic staff include Charlie Hume (Mason Adams), the managing
editor and Lou’s boss and friend; investigative reporter Joe Rossi (Robert
Walden), whose ego and aggressiveness sometimes get in the way of 
his
writing talent; Billie Newman (Linda Kelsey), Rossi’s competitive colleague
who usually handles her assignments, but not always Rossi, with more finesse;
assistant city editor Art Donovan (Jack Bannon), who provides an aura of
stability to the office; and Animal (Daryl Anderson), top-flight news photographer
whose personal appearance and laid-back style belie his on-the-job tenacity.