NBC Receives Series Order for New Show from Creator of US Legal Drama-Turned-Broadcasting Giant
suit – The long-running American legal drama that somehow became a streaming juggernaut last summer – will return to traditional television this fall with a spinoff titled Suits: LA
NBC has given the spinoff a series order on Friday, diverse Reported, with original suit Creator Aaron Korsh returns as writer and executive producer.
While Cyrus is returning, the original cast of the series — which included Meghan Markle before she joined the royal family — will not be returning. Instead, Arrow Star Stephen Amell will lead a new cast in a new location, as the legal drama moves from New York City to the eponymous Los Angeles.
According to NBC's log, Suits: LA The film stars Ted Black, a former New York federal prosecutor who reinvents himself by representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point and to survive, he must embrace a role he has despised throughout his career. Ted is surrounded by a cast of fascinating characters who test their loyalty to Ted and to each other as they can't help but intertwine their personal and professional lives.
Josh McDermitt, Lex Scott Davis, and Bryan Greenberg will star in the film. Suits: LAwhich is said to be set in the same world as the events of suit — STU, or Suits Television Universe — as a USA series despite none of the cast of the previous show appearing (yet).
like rolling stone It was investigated last year, suit — which ran on USA for nine seasons from 2011 to 2019 — became the surprise hit of summer 2023 when it was upgraded to premium status on Netflix, where the series found a whole new audience in its afterlife.suit(The return even puzzled Meghan Markle, who starred in the first seven seasons of the series before leaving in 2017; she married Prince Harry the following year.)
suitThe newfound popularity has led the series' creator and producers to begin work on a spinoff series; the Los Angeles-based pilot was filmed earlier this year, and NBC has subsequently ordered the series for its upcoming fall programming.
