‘Suits LA’ faces abrupt cancellation at NBC

The revival series based on a once immensely popular legal procedural, Suits LA has been cancelled by NBC after just the first season.

While the finale of the season is set to premiere on May 18, right on schedule, the show will not return for a second time.

Upon its announcement, Suits LA was a highly anticipated spinoff of the mega popular Suits, with the courtroom action from the original’s New York setting being shifted to Hollywood central.

Stephen Amell assumed leading duties for the spinoff based in Los Angeles, playing Ted Black, a character related to the original show’s protagonist, Harvey Specter.

Meanwhile, Specter, who was played by Gabriel Macht, made several key appearances throughout the now-cancelled revival.

Actors Rick Hoffman and David Costabile also returned alongside Macht, to reprise their respective roles from the original.

Notably, Suits premiered in 2011 and went on to become one of the most popular TV shows of the decade, concluding its original run in 2019.

The show famously starred Meghan Markle, in one of the most memorable appearances of her acting career, before her wedding into the British royal family.

While this is the second Suits spinoff to be abandoned soon after release, following Pearson in 2019, series creator Aaron Korsh revealed that they still have further plans for the legal franchise.

“I was very satisfied with the way ‘Suits’ ended, and at some point we might do a ‘Suits’ movie and that could be fun,” he told Entertainment Weekly in 2024, adding at the time that those plans were “more in the hypothetical or theoretical stages.”

Suits LA was released by NBC on February 23, 2025.