Five-and-a-half years after Suits’ Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) quit corporate law and moved to Seattle with his former executive assistant-turned wife Donna (Sarah Rafferty) to join Mike Ross’ (Patrick J. Adams) legal clinic, he’s back for a stint in a high-octane spin-off series, Suits: L.A. The show premieres in the US on 23 February and comes to M-Net Express from the US on 24 February at 8am and again in prime time at 7pm from 27 February.
Suits: L.A. centres on Ted Black (Stephen Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York who has reinvented himself by representing the most powerful entertainment clients in Los Angeles, including Denzel Washington, Matt Damon, Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio. His firm is at a crisis point and to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career.
Ted is surrounded by a group of characters played by Lex Scott Davis, Josh McDermitt and Bryan Greenberg, who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other and they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All this happens while the show slowly unravels the events that years ago led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved, to start all over.
Macht’s iconic character is slated to join the world of Suits: L.A. for three episodes – but who knows how long he’ll end up staying in Los Angeles? Specter and Black share the same background – they both were former prosecutors in New York. Suits: LA is the second spin-off of the nine-season hit, after Pearson, which followed Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) as she relocated from New York to Chicago.
Creator Aaron Korsh told NBC.com that the original script for Suits L.A. had nothing to do with lawyers at all, but when Suits’ popularity skyrocketed in 2023 and smashed streaming records, Suits L.A. was born. “I had written the script that is now Suits L.A. during the pandemic, and it was not originally in the Suits universe,”
Korsh revealed. “It was originally meant to be a new universe [about] agents in Hollywood.” The first draft of the original Suits also didn’t take place in the legal world – instead, the characters were investment bankers, but when the show took a procedural form, he decided lawyers were a better fit. “The show benefited from it originally being investment bankers, because I combined their roles into a hybrid of what lawyers do and what investment bankers do, therefore the original Suits was a different kind of law show. In [Suits LA], I was originally setting out to make a show about agents and now I’m making a show about
lawyers — so it’s going to make it a very different kind of law show again.” Korsh executive produces the spin-off alongside David Bartis, Doug Liman, Gene Klein and Victoria Mahoney.
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