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Metro
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
'Disastrous' Suits LA spin-off is cancelled after just one season
Spin-off series Suits LA has been cancelled after the first season following poor reviews and low viewing figures. The legal drama series stars the likes of Stephen Amell, Lex Scott Davis, Josh McDermitt, Bryan Greenberg and even boasts Gabriel Macht's Harvey Specter for a three-episode arc. However, after the last of its 13 episodes will air on May 18, the new series will be no more. This comes after fans branded the NBC series a 'trainwreck' after it premiered in February. The season charts the story of Ted Black (Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York, who has reinvented himself on the West Coast. Working at Black Lane, the law firm he and his criminal defense attorney friend launched more than 10 years ago, Ted has to navigate some of the most influential clients in Los Angeles. Airing on Sunday nights, the first season averaged a 0.17 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 1.49 million viewers, making it the network's second-lowest-rated series of the season. After the original Suits series starring Meghan Markle and Patrick J. Adams found popularity on Netflix during the pandemic, NBCUniversal attempted to jump on the back of this success with a new spin-off. However, with the show currently boasting a 39% score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 5.4 on IMDb, the series was not a hit with fans. Responding to the news on X, @BestFrameFrwd said: 'Problem was, it felt like they wanted a show full of 'Harveys'. 'You need contrasts like Mike and Donna, and big character swings like Louis, to add depth to the roster and more potential for storylines.' @YoungbloodJoe added: 'Love Stehpen Amell but Episode 1 was a disaster and made me extremely uninterested in the rest. Original was brilliant for 2 seasons.' @michael_esq1 also commented: 'You can't have a spinoff without the main characters. It doesn't work.' After the pilot episode was released, fans were also less than happy. Ryan Q commented: 'What an absolute train wreck. As a massive Suits fan I cant believe how tragic this pilot was. 'Just ridiculous. Mr Korsh that was an embarrassment to your credibility and will stain your legacy. I can't believe how let down I am after that. I can't say even as an avid Suits fan I will bother to watch the 2nd episode [sic].' More Trending Flocking to Reddit, Salgatorium fumed: 'They are trying to be exactly like the original Suits and it is awful. The plot is already all over the place 15 minutes in. 'The music is cheesy. The character building is cheesy. This show is dead in the water.' Dadonred said: 'This is like a parody of a low budget spoof of the original. Horrible! Bad writing, bad acting, boring scenes. Ugh.' View More » Suits LA is available to watch on Peacock. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Viewers in tears after watching 'the best episode of comedy TV ever' MORE: TV pundit collapses live on air and presenter's 'unacceptable' reaction stuns viewers MORE: Harry Potter's TV show's three main stars finally cast and about to become 'overnight millionaires'
Express Tribune
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
NBC pulls the plug on 'Suits L.A.' after season one
NBC has officially pulled the plug on Suits L.A., ending the spinoff after just one season. Starring Arrow alum Stephen Amell as entertainment lawyer Ted Black, the series was set in a high-stakes Los Angeles firm, Black Lane. It marked the second spinoff from the original Suits and featured surprise appearances from franchise favorites like Gabriel Macht's Harvey Specter. The show was developed following a massive resurgence in popularity of the original Suits, which shattered streaming records in 2023 with 57.7 billion minutes viewed across platforms. But despite that momentum, Suits L.A. couldn't replicate the same cultural heat. According to Deadline, the series drew in a modest audience, averaging just over 1 million viewers per episode. Fans eager for more of Aaron Korsh's signature legal drama are likely disappointed, especially after such a promising setup. Some speculate that the show's traditional weekly airing model may have contributed to its downfall, with newer audiences now conditioned to binge entire seasons at once. Whether Suits L.A. would have thrived as a binge-drop streaming title remains an open and likely unanswered question.
Yahoo
02-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Why 'Suits LA' star Stephen Amell asked the show's creator for notes in his audition
Canadian actor Stephen Amell is moving forward the beloved Suits franchise, starring in Suits LA (Sundays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on CTV, and the CTV app, available to stream next day on Crave). Amell plays Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York who uproots his life to Los Angeles, representing high-profile clients. As we saw in the first episode of the series Ted's firm, Black Lane, is going through a merger, with Ted's ex-girlfriend's practice. But in a twist, he's betrayed by someone incredibly close to Suits LA on Crave What's revealed in the show's frist episode is that Stuart Lane (Josh McDermitt), a criminal defence lawyer who's also Ted's partner in the firm, put in action a plan to set out on his own, taking all of Black Lane's most important clients, and staff. Amell told Yahoo Canada that he loves working with Josh McDermitt and teased that we'll be learning more about the relationship between the two characters in future episodes. "He's always got an ad lib or something fun to add to the scene that you don't anticipate, that he kind of brings out on the day when you're shooting it," Amell said. "He makes those scenes really pop. ... I just read our most recent episode that we're going to start shooting shortly, and we continue to learn more about Ted and Stuart. I think it's a very fascinating relationship." But aside from Ted's professional life, the series premiere of Suits LA also digs into his personal life quite a bit. We learn that Ted has had a particularly volatile relationship with her father. It also introduces us to Ted's brother Eddie (Carson A. Egan), a sibling we see Ted speaking to in his home, but he's not a roommate. Eddie died years ago, but Ted still imagines speaking to his brother. "That's the stuff that intrigued me most with the show, when we find out that Eddie is not around in the present day, and it's just sort of a figment of Ted's imagination," Amell said. "That made me want to read more and get to do more." As Amell described, the show begins without a lot of "hand-holding" for its audience, diving right into not just professional tensions for Ted, but personal matters as well. But while Ted is clearly going through a lot, Amell's portrayal of the character has a significant injection of humour. "I got that sense right from when I auditioned actually, I wanted to make sure that Ted didn't take himself too seriously," Amell said. "I thought that I would just go in, have a lot of fun with it and just trust that if I ever needed to scale it back a little bit, people would tell me to. But as of yet, nobody has told me to." No matter what happens in Suits LA, it's impossible for the show to completely escape comparisons to Suits, both shows created by Aaron Korsh. But Amell stressed that he can't focus on that while working on this new series. "That has to be put aside," Amell said. "Because I know that I'm not sitting there doing an impersonation of the original." "But if people are going to think that, they're going to think that regardless, and if they want to give the show a chance, they're going to give the show a chance regardless. And I also know that a lot of people, because we're on network television and the original wasn't, are going to find the show having never seen the original, so I'm just focusing on the work and all the outside factors, that's for somebody else to figure out." When it comes to what's particularly appealing about Korsh's work, Amell highlighted that he responded to the way Korsh writes from a personal space. "There's a line in the second episode where I say that, if I can't trust my instincts I've got nothing. Aaron told me shortly after I said that line, he's like, 'I said that in a meeting like two weeks ago,'" Amell shared. "He also, you hear this often, but it's really true with him, best idea wins. He's just looking to make the best show possible. He's looking to create something that he likes. ... So I'm really hoping that people give the show a chance, and it's just been great working with him." Something Amell has spoken about publicly is that he appreciated that he got to have an in-person audition for the role of Ted Black, something not done as frequently since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and virtual and remote options became the norm. "You actually get to show that you can make adjustments in the room," Amell said. "I'll have an instinct for a scene and it'll be wrong or it won't fit into ... what they're looking for, ... so your ability to pivot and do something different is important." "And that's not really something that you can show them when you're auditioning over Zoom. I remember we did the first scene that I had to audition for Ted, and Aaron actually specifically said, 'I have no notes.' And I said, 'Oh, well, that's nice, but why don't you give me a note anyway, so that I can show you that I can do it?' And he said OK and he did, and I made an adjustment, and I would hope that helps getting hired." But we can't talk about Suits LA without addressing the one big question for Suits fans, when will Gabriel Macht make his appearance on the show as the infamous Harvey Specter? Amell couldn't provide too many details, but slightly teased his appearance on the show, which so far we've only seen as a photo of Ted and Harvey on an amateur baseball league together. "I'm sworn to secrecy on all the Harvey stuff, except to say that we play on the same baseball team. I think that's the better place to leave it right now," Amell said. "But I think that it's understood that he figures into, not only to my character's past, but also to my character's present a little bit."
Yahoo
16-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Suits LA Teaser Takes You Inside the "High Stakes World of Entertainment Law" (WATCH)
Think you know the Suits formula by now? Think again! It's a whole different ballgame in Suits LA (premiering Sunday, February 23 on NBC), which trades the cold, corporate jungle of the Big Apple for the glitz, glamor, and sunshine of the West Coast. As series lead Stephen Amell explains in a brand-new sneak peek behind-the-scenes, the second spinoff of the hit USA Network dives headfirst into "the high stakes world of entertainment law." The erstwhile Oliver Queen plays the character of Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York who has reinvented himself on the west coast via the Black Lane law firm, which represents the most powerful clients in the City of Angels. RELATED: "I feel like Black Lane is a place that people would want to work," Amell says in the teaser, "if for no other reason than the views are great and the clothes are spectacular." Lex Scott Davis (The First Purge), Josh McDermitt (The Walking Dead), and Bryan Greenberg (How to Make it in America) round out the main cast as Ted's professional colleagues, "who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can't help but mix their personal and professional lives," reads the official synopsis. And, of course, fans can almost certainly expect a guest star appearances from fan favorites Gabriel Macht (Harvey Specter), which opens the door for other returning cast members like Gina Torres (Jessica Pearson), Rick Hoffman (Louis Litt), Patrick J. Adams (Mike Ross), and Sarah Rafferty (Donna Paulsen), although none have been confirmed like Specter. 'To me Mike's secret was a faux hook, the real one was stories focusing less on law more on characters that we grew to love," series creator and executive producer Aaron Korsh wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) last month. "#SuitsLA has a different faux hook but the same real one. We focus less on law and more on characters you will grow to love. Do u not trust I can do this?' RELATED: Audiences can get "Litt Up" (aka tune into the NBC series premiere of Suits LA) on Sunday, February 23 at 9:00 p.m. ET. We suggest celebrating the occasion with an ice-cold prunie. You can catch episodes on Peacock the following day.
