NBC is officially going to court with Suits: L.A., handing the Stephen Amell-starring spinoff a series order. A network rep tells TVLine that it has not yet been determined if the offshoot will air as soon as midseason or be held for the 2025-26 season.
Set in the world of the original USA Network drama, the project follows a brand new character, Ted Black (played by Arrow vet Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York who “has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles,” per the official synopsis.
“His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career,” the description continues. “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. All of this is going on while events from years ago slowly unravel that led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved.”
The Walking Dead alum Josh McDermitt stars opposite Amell as Stuart Lane, who joined up with his buddy Ted Black to build an L.A. firm. Rounding out the series-regular cast are Lex Scott Davis (The L Word: Generation Q) as Erica Rollins, a savvy and strong-willed rising star at the firm, and Bryan Greenberg (One Tree Hill) as Rick Dodsen, Ted Black’s protégé in the entertainment division.
Additionally, Alice Lee (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) and Troy Winbush (The Goldbergs, The Wilds) guest-star in the pilot (with the potential to recur). Lee plays Leah, a young associate attorney who has been assigned to work with (or, as it turns out, for) entertainment attorney Erica Rollins. Winbush, meanwhile, is Ted’s old friend and ex-partner, Kevin, who is a former FBI agent-turned-private detective.
Suits creator Aaron Korsh penned the pilot and serves as executive producer alongside David Bartis, Doug Liman, Gene Klein and pilot director Victoria Mahoney.
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If this doesn’t star the Original cast, I’m out!,
Bring in the Mikkaelsons!
Still won’t be the same as the original. They might as well just call it “LA Law 2025”
It just won’t be the same without the original cast.
If Markle guest stars even once, I’m out. Can’t stand the “Duchess of Discord.”
I’m with Mickey and Roger.
This show has no business being called Suits when it has nothing to do with the original cast. Suits had a very unique premise upon which the whole show built from.
Name this LA LAW 2025 like Roger said and give us an authentic Suits. Most of the characters MOVED there for Pete’s sake at the end of Suits.
Jessica and Louis could move to LA too. Louis loves them too much to stay long without them.
For the record, I wouldn’t be bothered by Amnell joining the original cast to give fodder for new relationship drama.
It could be a good, entertaining show. Just worried that some judge it too quickly based on their feelings about the original.
So here’s the problem. It will be a well written show. Maybe the cast will work, maybe it won’t. The problem is that Suits in another city just sounds dumb. And it’s all because the network/studio thinks that it sounds better to make a show called “Suits:LA” instead of going to Aaron Korsh and saying, you created Suits, it was a hit, we want you to make us a legal show like that. No it has to be a spinoff, so they can pay him slightly less, and because they think that the “brand” is the most important thing.
I keep thinking about David E Kelley who went form working on LA Law to doing Picket Fences and The Practice and Ally McBeal and Boston Legal and Goliath and Lincoln Lawyer and on and on…today he could never have that kind of career because the studios would say, we want a spinoff – give us LA Law: Boston, or The Practice: Miami.
Well… a sequel series to L.A. Law starring Blair Underwood was commissioned a few years ago but the pilot was not picked up, and Boston Legal was a sequel to and direct continuation of The Practice.
Why are we still giving this scab work he should be blacklisted.
OH, GET OVER IT!!!!!! THAT’S LAST YEARS NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
America does not embrace the cancel culture and its McCarthy like effects.
Amell has every right to speak his mind and be safe from retaliation in the workplace.
“Cancel culture and McCarthy, waaa waaa waaa” You really like throwing around hollow cliches without much understanding of their meaning.
I got very,very excited when I saw Suits was coming back, but then the bib, big let-down when it wasn’t with the original actors. They were perfect in this series (and both very cute) and I will not watch the new version. I have never even heard of the two actors in it Bring back the original actors for this and a lot, lot of fans will watch!!
I’ll give it a chance, I hope it creates its own path rather than just trying to replicate the Harvey/Mike dynamic.
I dont mind not having Mike or Harvey or the Donna…the real star if suits was always the magic blue folders that had all the answers anyway…long as they are still around I’m sure it’ll be fine
Can’t wait for the premier. Just love Stephen Amell.