The Suits spinoff will be taking court on NBC, which has handed the offshoot an official pilot order, TVLine has learned.
Titled Suits: L.A., the project follows a brand new character, Ted Black, 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.”
Aaron Korsh, who created the original USA Network drama, will pen the pilot and executive-produce alongside David Bartis and Doug Liman (for Hypnotic), Gene Klein and director Victoria Mahoney.
Production on Suits: L.A. is slated to begin in late March in Vancouver, Canada.
The pilot order comes after an unexpected resurgence for the mothership show as it soared to streaming records on Netflix over last summer, becoming the most-streamed program of 2023. Available on Netflix since June (as well as on Peacock), the “blue sky” drama racked up 57.7 billion minutes viewed across its 134-episode library, Nielsen reports in its 2023 wrap-up, easily topping the list of Top 10 overall programs.
Suits fans, are you excited for the potential new series? And will you miss the exclamations of “bulls–t!” on NBC?
I am excited about anything Suits related or adjacent. And I hope they are able to keep this one around longer than they managed to keep Pearson around.
“Suits: LA”?! There’s not imagination left in Hollywood. Should have been called “Ties”. Works on several levels, given the plot.
I like that Will.
My dude that would’ve been a horrendous title. Coming 2026: Slacks (it works because they use Slack too). Coming 2030: Loafers (it works because they’re also lazy).
It’s not about imagination, it’s about brand recognition. TV @ the end of the day is more about business than art.
Absolutely 👍
I didn’t like the use of the language but I think it added to the appeal of the show…I don’t think NBC is right fit…I’ll try but there has to be some kind of tie in…
Take the constant G-d out and I’m fine with the language.
Please, please, can Gabriel Macht be in the spinoff?!
“Production on ‘Suits: L.A.’ is slated to begin in late March in Vancouver, Canada.”
That strikes me as pretty funny. Are production costs so high in Los Angeles that they can’t even afford to make an L.A.-set show there?
Suits was also filmed in Canada
Yeah but Toronto is a decent double for New York. I have a hard time imagining it being LA.
There’s Vancouver.
It was made in Toronto. which can stand in for New York if you’re just filming office and street scenes — and, in any case, it didn’t actually have “New York” in the title. If you’re putting “L.A.” in your title but film in Vancouver, you’re saying something about the economics of Hollywood.
“Vancouver doesn’t look like anything. It doesn’t even look like Vancouver. It looks like Boston, California” – Danny Tripp, Studio 60
The new title: are they going for a CSI/NCIS-type franchise? They’re looking for name recognition for sure, but it’s dumb title. If you’re going to be dumb, then just go for broke: “Pantsuits”, “Power Suits”, “Track Suits”…
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But regardless, burning question: will the new series have partners at war each season that requires renaming the firm multiple times? Pearson Hardman, etc., had to have been paying someone full-time just to keep the wall plaques updated with the latest firm name!
Pantsuits, Power Suits, Track Suits. LOL! LOVE it!
Sounds like another Blue Sky USA Network drama, Mozzie on White Collar referred to the FBI agents as Suit (Peter), Mrs Suit (Elle, Peter’s wife), Pantsuit (Diana) and (IIRC) Junior Suit (Clinton Jones).
Mozzie was such a great character on so many levels. Miss the Blue Sky days and the shows produced during that time. It’s nice to that at Psych and Monk live on in films.
I miss Willie Garson as any character. He was so good.
Burn Notice was another good one, I’m glad it didn’t live on though as the story was wrapped up when it ended.
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Willie Garson will be a big miss if the White Collar revival does happen.
I can’t wait for Zoot Suits, about a group of lawyers who moonlight as jazz musicians!
I worked for lawyers for years. That’s the way it really goes down in law firms.
Damn, they’re gonna film a show about Los Angeles in Vancouver? Why?
It is very common.
Suits was filmed in Toronto. Many shows are filmed in Vancouver and set elsewhere.
Well aware, but as others have said, trying to make Canada look like California is less convincing.
Not if they don’t know about it. lol
Fire country is filmed in Vancouver.
Psych is also filmed in Vancouver, both take place in California.
I bet they will do a job that unless you are looking for it they will do a good job of masking where they are. If there is some shots they must do with an iconic piece of Los Angeles they might schedule a couple of days of shooting there to capture it while minimizing the need for anyone that isn’t a regular.
Lucifer was set in Los Angeles and there were different seasons where they shot the show in Los Angeles and some where they shot in Vancouver.
Yeah, there are no palm trees in Vancouver. Can’t film inside with no palm trees viewed out the windows.
Why? $$$$$$$
I want Barry Keoghan for the lead role please!
Super excited, I am always up for a good lawyer drama
I absolutely loved Suits. I watched from the premiere of the pilot.
Without Mike or Harvey, I just don’t see it having the same appeal. It’s just another lawyer show then.
There’s no Suits without Harvey, Donna and Litt.
Show survived when the other lead left the show but wouldn’t have if Harvey did.
They freaking moved to LA at the end of the series so why are we focused on new characters?
Bring back Harvey and Donna and have them show off their skills helping non profits and navigating the different world of LA/Hollywood. Bring in new characters to support them. And somehow get Litt there.
They moved to Washington state not LA.
Not that excited. It was the characters that made the last show outstanding and their chemistry. Of course the writers can write the best script ever written, but the actors can make or break a show. Will wait and see who is cast and maybe watch first and second episodes, but they have a high bar to reach no less exceed.
100%
It’s like you are reading my mind. I would add that if they wanted this spinoff they could have created a movie (Harvey and Mike had some pro-bono in Seattle that took them to LA. Harvey knew a big hot shot lawyer like him who they could work with on what becomes a big class action law suit and off we go) and introduced the new characters in the movie before they spin off into the show so that there is at least some connection and hopefully the same tone. I love Gina Torres and she was pitch perfect as Jessica but when they spun off Pearson even Gina couldn’t save it from the dark tone that they created. I will watch but I think Aaron is missing the core elements that made Suits work and for me that was at lease Harvey and Mike but particularly Harvey and I suppose Mike :). He should check in with Rob Thomas about Veronica Mars and how well that worked out for him when he tried to take Veronica in a new direction without the rest of them especially Logan (still not over it).
Also, the show should go to USA and create some “Characters Welcome” type shows again for the summer. I don’t see this working on NBC.
How can he check in with Rob Thomas, isn’t he dead? (Or just to me?) Never will be over it
LoVe fan? How could he have been so clueless about what made that show work. They got married and lived happily ever after. That’s how it ended and nobody can tell me differently!!!
Well said.
That’s what I think too. Without the same characters, & in a different city, it’s not the same show. I might give it a try, just to see.
The show was incredible because the cast was incredible. It sounds to me like the only thing they are rebooting is the name. Unless Harvey, Mike, Louis, and Donna are in it, I’m not excited, it’s just another legal drama..
As near as I can tell none of the characters from the first show will appear in this one. If they don’t appear, can it really be called a spinoff.
I thought there was going to be a SUITS spin-off centered around the fabulous Louis Litt character. Any news on that? The original SUITS is going to be a tough act to follow. Let’s hope it’s not another train wreck a la “Jessica Pearson.”
I am very happy. I loved suits and I know am going to enjoy Suits LA.
Hope it is as good as the original Suits. Can’t wait to see it.
Maybe NBC can rerun Suits in prime time as CBS did with Yellowstone. Saturday nights at 9 or 10, Fridays at 10. I could do without more Dateline and SNL reruns.
Get NETFLIX to air season 9. Where is PATRICK Adam’s in the new show? He said he wants in.
Pass.
I am excited as long as the original stars make appearances.
When does sits la start
This is like when they tried to reboot 24 – but without Jack Bauer.
This will be one of my “it’s summer time, and I am needing a 2nd screen background entertainment while I am working on the computer” shows.
On NBC??
I don’t have high hopes now. Without the signature language that was the OG, I can’t imagine this is that successful.
So they change the lead character from a woman to a man named Ted?? I’m getting HIMYF vibes
Suits: LA? not very original
Will I still watch it? Most likely
I am also less interested in this now that it is confirmed to air on NBC. I have a suggestion to the execs at NBC/Universal however, and the word is “Hinterland”. Hinterland was an excellent Welsh crime series 2013-16 that filmed two versions with the same actors. One version was entirely shot in Welsh and the second version entirely in English. NBC could have the “clean version” and Peacock/USA (if USA airs repeats) the “colorful version” with a few curse words. It would not be that difficult for the actors to film select scenes with a few colorful words for the streaming/cable version and the broadcast networks have experience airing clean version of movies.
Absolutely loved Hinterland and that has been done with a few shows resulting in broader audiences. U.S. networks tend to play it safe.
Sure but the TV-MA version would not air on NBC, it would stream on Peacock (or potentially as repeats on USA). NBC, ABC and CBS all have corporate owned streaming services, the revenue generated by first run scripted programming on broadcast via advertising while still incredibly important to those companies bottom line is diminishing. It is also streaming, there could be two versions on Peacock, the clean version that airs on NBC and a TV-MA streaming version with curse words, viewers could have the choice which version they want to watch. I am also not suggesting that the TV-MA version would have F bombs or the level of “basic cable cursing” that the OG Suits had on USA for example, just a handful during key scenes or moments in episodes.
I meant HIMYM
How I Met Your Mother
So is it no longer female led and set in an entertainment firm? Very confused.
I’ll have me a slice of Jessica with a splash of Harvey. Thank you very much
I’m not convinced about this show, because they are selling it as a spin-off of sorts, but it’s just another show created by the same people. The Kings made The Good Wife/Fight, then they made Evil and it doesn’t mean the latter is a spin-off of the former. Unless they are planning on bringing some of the characters of the main show, they would be no ties to it. Another thing that I find disappointing is the fact that it’ll be on NBC, instead of USA Network. I was looking forward to the revival of the blue sky era and even though I don’t really care about cursing, I felt like sometimes it was necessary to sell the tension of the scene, but I guess, they are planning on doing a show like the first seasons of Suits when things were less dramatic and the stakes seemed lower.