The Lyon's Den

The Lyon's Den is a 2003 American legal drama television series. Set in Washington, D.C., it stars Rob Lowe as a lawyer named Jack Turner, who has been newly appointed as partner of a long-established law firm that, as the plot revealed, harbored some dark secrets. The cast also included Matt Craven, Elizabeth Mitchell, Kyle Chandler, Frances Fisher, and David Krumholtz. Both the series' title and firm's name are allusions to the surname of Lowe, who also served as executive producer. Much of the plot is centered on the firm's internal politics and on Turner's attempts to uncover information on some of the firm's conspiracies while acting as the defense of its higher-profile clients in a different case each episode.

The series premiered on the American television network NBC on September 28, 2003, but although thirteen episodes were ordered and produced, only six aired before NBC cancelled the series on November 30, 2003, due to low ratings. When the UK's channel Five bought the United Kingdom terrestrial TV rights to the series in 2004, it aired all thirteen episodes. Rob Lowe has stated that after finding out about the show's cancellation he and the show's producers decided to make the last episodes —which they were contractually obligated to make— as absurd as possible, including an "off the wall" and freakish ending.