You have to feel, in a way, for Suits creator Aaron Korsh. When his long-running USA legal drama started blowing up on Netflix back in the summer of 2023—fully four years after it went off the air—Korsh was honest and straightforward about what that meant for him, a.k.a., basically zilch. He had no more Suits for you; had no ideas for more Suits; had largely left the Suits portion of his life behind. (The single-season collapse of his previous effort to spin the series off, the Gina Torres-starring Pearson, probably hadn’t helped.) But then y’all just kept streaming it. And streaming it. And then streaming it some more, tingling the organ that exists deep within the brains of television executives everywhere when something is already popular, and they could make some money by making more of it. And suddenly, wouldn’t you know it, Korsh had an idea for Suits LA.
Anyway, Suits LA has now been canceled, after a single, largely ignored season.
To be fair to the Stephen Amell-led series, it’s not alone in facing the axe at NBC today: As we previously reported, Night Court got killed off at the network, as did The Irrational, Found, and Lopez vs. Lopez. (It feels like it’s been a minute since we’ve had a genuine Bloodbath Day, that once-annual holiday where TV networks need to set their fall schedules by killing off huge swathes of their existing shows, but the blood is certainly flowing today.) Still, no show has better exemplified the fickle nature of an audience—or maybe just networks’ inability to understand what people actually want when they binge some comfort food—than Suits LA. Our own Saloni Gajjar derided the series as “IP drivel” when it came out back in March, because, turns out, Suits was not just “a legal drama,” but a very specific cocktail of chemistry, both in front of and behind the cameras, and LA couldn’t automatically import that juice just by slapping the name of the old show on it. (At the network’s behest, it’s worth noting.) And so, despite some efforts from original series star Gabriel Macht to prop things up, the show has now been killed off two days before its first-season finale was set to air—at which point, we assume, people are just going to continue watching the old series that they liked, and ignoring the new one that they didn’t, despite any similarities they might have shared in name.
