Poor Stephen Amell! The Arrow actor’s Suits spinoff series, Suits: LA, has been cancelled by NBC after just one season. The show revolved around Ted Black (Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York City who transitions into an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles and runs the influential Black Lane Law firm.
The only reason Suits: LA ever saw the light of day was the streaming resurgence of the original Suits series in 2023. NBC tried to cash in on that success with the spinoff, but it failed miserably. Even a guest appearance by the great Harvey Specter himself—Gabriel Macht—wasn’t enough to save the show. Deadline first broke this news.
Despite the original Suits series’ massive streaming success in 2023, this development will likely frustrate fans eager for more of Aaron Korsh’s signature high-stakes legal drama. The situation mirrors a previous attempt to expand the Suits universe: the 2019 spinoff Pearson, which also failed to gain traction and was cancelled after just one season.
Suits: LA currently holds a ‘rotten’ score of 39% on Rotten Tomatoes. While it had an impressive debut, with the pilot drawing over 2.61 million viewers in the US, the latest episode, titled “Tearin’ Up My Heart,” plummeted in viewership, attracting only 1.11 million viewers, less than half the audience of the premiere.
One of the key factors that made the original Suits series a global hit was its binge-watch model. Since 2023, viewers have been able to stream the entire series at once. That wasn’t the case with Suits: LA, whose weekly-release format backfired. Combined with poor critical and audience reception, the show was ultimately doomed to fail. Stay tuned for more updates.