‘Suits’ Returning to TV This Fall With ‘L.A.’ Spinoff

Suits — the long-running USA legal drama that somehow became a streaming juggernaut last summer — will return to conventional television this fall with a spinoff titled Suits: L.A.

NBC gave the spinoff a series order Friday, Variety reported, with original Suits creator Aaron Korsh back on board as writer and executive producer.

While Korsh is returning, the original series’ cast — which included a pre-royal Meghan Markle — is not. Instead, Arrow star Stephen Amell will lead a new cast in a new setting, with the legal drama moving from New York City to the titular Los Angeles.

According to NBC’s logline, Suits: L.A. features Ammel as Ted Black “a former federal prosecutor from New York” who “has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point and to survive he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives.”

Josh McDermitt, Lex Scott Davis and Bryan Greenberg will co-star in Suits: L.A., which reportedly takes place in the same world as Suits — the STU, or Suits Television Universe — as the USA series despite not featuring any of the previous show’s cast (as of now).

As Rolling Stone investigated last year, Suits — which ran on USA for nine seasons from 2011 to 2019 — became the surprise Show of the Summer in 2023 when it was elevated to marquee status on Netflix, with the series finding a whole new audience in its afterlife. (Suits’ resurgence even bemused Markle, who starred in the first seven seasons of the series before departing in 2017; she married Prince Harry the following year.)

Suits’ newfound popularity resulted in the series’ creator and producers to start work on a spinoff series; the Los Angeles-based pilot filmed earlier this year, and based on that, NBC ordered the series for its upcoming fall programming.

From Rolling Stone US.