Court is adjourned for Suits LA.
The series will not return for a second season, Entertainment Weekly can confirm. NBC canceled the spinoff of the beloved USA Network dramedy Suits ahead of its May 18 finale, which will still air as planned.
As its title implies, Suits LA moved the action of the original from the Big Apple to Tinseltown, and followed a cast of legal eagles led by Stephen Amell’s Ted Black, who has a connection to Suits‘ Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht, who recurred in several episodes on the spinoff). Rick Hoffman also reprised his fan-favorite character, the neurotic financial law partner Louis Litt, in the spinoff. Josh McDermitt, Lex Scott Davis, and Bryan Greenberg rounded out the main cast of Suits LA.
The original Suits premiered in 2011 and ran for nine seasons. Starring Macht as legal shark Harvey and Patrick J. Adams as his brilliant (but fraudulent) protégé, Mike Ross, the show captured the pop culture zeitgeist in 2023 — four years after it ended — when it became available to stream on Netflix. The series, which also famously starred pre-royalty Meghan Markle, smashed streaming records for months on end, with Nielsen reporting U.S. viewers watched a whopping 57.7 billion minutes in 2023 alone, and suddenly became a global hit, which was ultimately the impetus for creating Suits LA.
This is the second Suits spinoff to be one-and-done, after Pearson, which followed Gina Torres’ Jessica Pearson as she traded New York law for Chicago in an effort to reconnect with her estranged family.
However, it’s possible that viewers haven’t seen the last of the Suits televerse.
Series creator Aaron Korsh previously told EW he was very open to the idea of returning to the original series once more in the form of a reunion movie.
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Lex Scott Davis as Erica Rollins on ‘Suits LA’
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“I was very satisfied with the way Suits ended, and at some point we might do a Suits movie and that could be fun,” Korsh said. “It’s more in the hypothetical or theoretical stages, so I wouldn’t have many answers for you [now]. But it’s not an insane notion for us to someday do that.”
At least one other person would be down for a movie. Ahead of his appearance in Suits LA‘s now-penultimate episode, Hoffman told EW, “No thoughts, without a doubt. I would absolutely be interested, for sure. How could somebody say no to a character that changed their life, you know what I mean? I would love to know what that kind of person’s like. We all have nothing but fond thoughts of that experience, so I don’t get what would be in the way of wanting to do it.”
Sounds like its time for Korsh and team to plead their case for a feature.
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