Stephen Amell's 'Suits LA' axed after one season at NBC
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NBC is closing the case on Suits LA after just one season.
Ahead of its May 18 finale, the network has announced that the Stephen Amell-led spinoff won’t be returning for new episodes this fall.
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According to Deadline, NBCUniversal’s President of Program Planning Strategy Jeff Bader admitted that the show “really has not resonated (with audiences in) the way we thought it would.”
“There can be many, many reasons why it hasn’t resonated, but it’s just not showing the potential to grow for us in the future, unfortunately. Those are the decisions we had to make,” he said during a press conference Saturday.
The show centred on Ted Black (Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York who reinvents himself by representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. It featured several stars from the original series, which ran for nine seasons between 2011 to 2019, including Gabriel Macht, who appeared in several episodes as Harvey Specter, and Rick Hoffman, who reprised his role as Louis Litt.
Suits LA was the biggest name amongst NBC’s spring TV cancellations. Along with the legal drama, the network has opted not to move forward with new episodes of Found, The Irrational, Night Court and Lopez vs. Lopez.
“We had to look at the performance of the shows, both on linear and on digital,” said Bader. “We had to see the ones that looked like they had growth potential in the future. We’re looking at how stable they are in their linear performance, how stable they are on digital which ones are growing, which ones are declining. And we had to make some hard decisions.”
Ahead of the February launch of the series, the Toronto-born Amell told Variety that Suits LA was a bigger challenge than playing Oliver Queen in the DC superhero drama Arrow for eight seasons.
“The only muscle on my body that hurts from shooting this show is my brain,” he said. “You wouldn’t think that you’d be as tired from five heavy, dialogue-rich scenes as you would from a day of stunts, but you are.”
With the original show becoming a streaming hit on Netflix, Suits creator Aaron Korsh told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year he was open to exploring more stories as part of a reunion movie.
“I was very satisfied with the way Suits ended, and at some point we might do a Suits movie and that could be fun … it’s not an insane notion for us to someday do that,” Korsh said.
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