Over the summer, everybody decided, en masse, to binge-watch all nine seasons of Suits. In August, we heard that between Netflix and Peacock, people had streamed 18 billion minutes of Suits. Suits, a show which ended in 2019, was the surprise hit of the summer of 2023. Recently, Nielsen Streaming announced that Suits had been the #1 streamed show for the twelfth week in a row and “Only 11 streaming titles have sat atop Nielsen’s Top 10 for five weeks or more.” What do the youths want? MOAR SUITS. So Suits creator Aaron Korsh will give people more Suits.
For the past four months, Suits has been the hottest series on television, breaking a slew of streaming viewership records. Now the franchise, which ended in September 2019 with the Suits series finale, is plotting a comeback.
Series creator Aaron Korsh is in development of a Suits offshoot for NBCUniversal, sources tell Deadline. Deals are still being negotiated, but I hear the project is expected to be fast-tracked with a serious commitment.
This is not a revival or reboot and, unlike the 2019 Pearson, the new legal procedural is not a spinoff either — it would be a Suits universe series in the vein of the CSI and NCIS franchises featuring new characters in a new location, sources said. I hear Los Angeles is a backdrop considered for the workplace drama.
Like is the case for most NBCUniversal development, a network or platform for the potential new series has not been determined yet. The original Suits and spinoff Pearson both aired on the company’s USA Network. They were produced by UCP, part of Universal Studio Group. I hear UCP, where Korsh was based for many years with back-to-back overall deals, is in discussions to produce the new offshoot. Korsh is expected to executive producer alongside David Bartis and Doug Liman who were EPs with him on the original series. A rep for NBCU declined comment.
Basically, Suits is so popular that Korsh will get to create a Suits Extended Universe with new characters, maybe even one or two returning characters? What would be amazing is if they could arrange the “Suits Universe” in a way in which the old stars could pop in and out in guest-starring roles. Obviously, the Duchess of Sussex isn’t looking to return to acting full-time or part-time. But I could totally see her doing a one-off episode out of love for the Suits team and Aaron Korsh.
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- Meghan Markle attends the NBCUniversal New York Summer Press Day on June 24, 2015 at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City, New York, USA.,Image: 524926184, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: Robin Platzer/Twin Images / Twin Images / Avalon
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- cast of Suits, Gabriel Macht, Sarah Rafferty, Rick Hoffman and Meghan Markle and attend the NBCUniversal New York Summer Press Day on June 24, 2015 at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City, New York, USA.,Image: 524926353, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: Robin Platzer/Twin Images / Twin Images / Avalon
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- cast of Suits, Sarah Rafferty and Meghan Markle and attend the NBCUniversal New York Summer Press Day on June 24, 2015 at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City, New York, USA.,Image: 524926563, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: Robin Platzer/Twin Images / Twin Images / Avalon
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- Meghan Markle at the NBC-Universal 2014 TCA Winter Press Tour, Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa, Pasadena, CA 01-19-14,Image: 551006412, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: Martin Sloan / Avalon
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- Meghan Markle at the NBC-Universal 2014 TCA Winter Press Tour, Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa, Pasadena, CA 01-19-14,Image: 551006415, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: Martin Sloan / Avalon
Meghan making a guest appearance would be fantastic.
Meghan is the reason Suits is popular now (I don’t know why everyone don’t admit it), so I doubt ( I could be wrong) the spin off or whatever it’s called is going to be popular. We shall 👀
Why the negativity for a show that hasn’t come out yet?
I watched the show ages ago curious about Megan Markle. I loved the casting, writing, fashion and chemistry. I look forward to another show by these creators.
I’m a fan of Meghan, but I couldn’t make it through all the seasons of Suits. I got bored and annoyed with all the office politics and “should we sell the business, can we sell the business, omg we have to sell the business” and who’s got the biggest swinging dick – it started to feel like I never left my office.
^^ LOL @Eurydice! A lot of lawyer-themed shows are like that. 😆 To each their own likes and dislikes. As I said in another comment below, Suits was great through season three, but I found that the show began to experience growing pains and the producers had problems with believably managing the original concept. The writers resorted to a lot of flashback storylines, some of which were interesting, but they were losing focus and oomph a bit.
Still, I was all-in on rooting for certain characters, and the acting was consistently top-notch. In one flashback, Mike Ross flirts with Troian Belissario’s character (a guest role). The sexy chemistry they exuded was obvious, and stronger than what Mike and Rachel would later develop, IMO. I found the onscreen flirtation fascinating because real-life Troian and Patrick dated off-and-on, and they later married. Plus, Troian has a mixed ethnic background too, which few people know about.
I found myself hooked into Suits when I first began watching, in 2017, because of great acting, and wonderful production quality. Thus, I was able to forgive the flaws that set in around seasons 4 and 5.
@Caribbean, Meghan is, of course, the draw for Suits reruns. Yet, I’m sure viewers stick around because of the great cast of characters, acting prowess, on point costuming, etc. Whose to say that the original producer, Aaron Korsh, won’t be able to successfully put a team together and come up with a workable franchise?
They can even try to find a great group of aspiring actors and veteran character actors who are somewhat similar to the original cast. With good writing and strong plotting, I don’t see why they would not have a good chance to capitalize on this renewed interest in the original series.
Not negativity, just saying if it was bombing, it would be ALL about Meghan’s Suit bombing, but it’s doing well, and I still think because of her and yet..
I am saying, like the spin-off before, I don’t think the proposed one will be as popular as Suit (like I said before, I could be wrong)
They put out the spin-off (on Peacock?) when Suit started doing well and I have not heard peep about it.
Peacock has a much lower profile and subscriber base than Netflix, so I don’t think that’s a fair comparison.
Gina Torres is extremely talented, charismatic, and beautiful, so I hope they give that show another shot or incorporate her as a lead somehow in this new one.
@Caribbean: “Meghan is the reason Suits is popular now…”
Of course, this is true. The reason I began watching all the seasons on DVDs from my local library, in 2017, is because of Meghan and Harry dating. I wanted to see more of Meghan, and to see what Suits was about. I was skeptical at first, in part, because the ‘pornhub nonsense’ clip was being written about. I’d heard the show’s name mentioned well before M&H were dating, but I hadn’t been that motivated to look into it. I knew nothing about Meghan Markle. I’d never heard her name until November 8, 2016. Afterward, I sorely wished that I had been watching Suits and following Meghan on social media long before the royal deluge! 🤦♀️
Once I began watching on DVD, color me surprised. I found the show captivating from the first episode. The writing, acting, fashionable costuming, and overall production quality are top-notch, including the catchy opening musical theme. So, it wasn’t just for seeing Meghan that I continued to watch. I will bet that the high Netflix viewership is also due to viewers who tuned in for Meghan, becoming hooked because of the storyline and characters. The ‘pornhub’ salaciousness was completely inaccurate. Rachel Zane and Mike Ross didn’t have that one hot scene in the storage room happen until the very end of season 2 or 3.
Right through the end of season three, the show was great. But, in seasons 4 & 5, they had some problems with managing the show’s original ‘faux lawyer’ concept. Plus, the writers had written a faulty ‘affair with a married man’ flashback storyline for Meghan’s character that simply didn’t add up, which they had to effectively resolve. Meghan had begun receiving flack on Twitter about Rachel Zane, and she told the producers.
Meghan making an appearance would be great. Then maybe we could settle that “poppycock” conundrum once and for all.
Something to look forward to, can’t wait. The writing of Suits was so quick witted I hope they can recreate the magic.
How about Meghan dropping off one of her famous lemon olive oil cakes, saying she happened to be in the area?
Come in, say hi, speak a few lines, walk out, done.
I haven’t watched Meghan’s last episode in years. They moved to Seattle, didn’t they? Not that they couldn’t be in LA or wherever the spinoff is set by now. It would be interesting to get an update on Mike.
They should have Louis Litt be a crossover character somehow.
Louis, Sheila, (and their baby, maybe now a kid in law school?). Louis managing partner, and Sheila his recruiter, taking on the newbies.
After my rewatch I realized:
Mike Ross = Rory Gilmore.
Huh? Rory is a self-centered a-hole who rarely considers other people’s feelings, and after a lifetime of being praised as a near genius ends up taking her trust fund and doing eff all with her life. (But I don’t have particularly strong feelings about it. 😉 )
I knew Meghan because of Suits. We loved her. When we found out that she would marry Harry we were beyond excited! To this day I swear, I read an article once (a year or two before their involvement) that claimed how William, Kate and Harry were watching modern series like suits and were fascinated with Rachel Zane. I tried a gazillion time to find this article again, but it must have been buried.
I am also very excited for a new series around the Suits universe and could imagine Rachel Zane reappear for some episodes.
That’s funny if you read such an article prior to M&H meeting each other. However, we now know, since Harry revealed in Spare that WanK were huge fans of Suits, it was likely that some royal reporters knew this. In fact, when M&H were dating, in 2017, Katie Nicholl tried to spin the lie that Harry had been previously infatuated with Meghan’s Rachel Zane character. As usual, the opposite is true. Willy was infatuated with Meghan and with the character she played on Suits! 😜
Some rota ratchets may have assumed Harry watched too, but that’s not true. He was not around KP often enough in those years. Harry was too busy taking up the public duties slack for lazy WanK. When Harry was around, outside of publicly performing as the third wheel, Harry was not very close to WanK. If he’d even heard that they watched Suits, he probably didn’t think twice on it at the time, since before meeting Meg, he had never seen the show. Thus, he wouldn’t have known anything about it.
Personally, I remember hearing the show’s title mentioned, and that it was a lawyer-centric drama, but I never got around to checking it out (until 2017).
Is it just my optimism or does the DM seem to have eased up on Meghan bashing?
They managed to mention Suits without calling the actors of Suits D-list so this is an improvement, miles too late to ever be forgotten.
I’m currently binge-watching Suits as I managed to develop severe tendonitis in my foot and ankle exercising (no more backwards lunges holding 10 lb. weights for me) and am on crutches and in a lot of pain. Even though it’s a bit OTT and plot twists and turns are enough to give me whiplash, I’m enjoying it. I had 2 disasterous romantic relationships with lawyers — one for 3 years, the other for 10, and I can attest that they were as manipulative, deceitful, unfaithful and arrogant as some of the Suits characters. The more I watch the more I can relate and am forever relieved that I dumped both their sorry asses.
I’m not immediately excited about “Suits” universe. I think the Mike Ross character’s situation was a new concept. I also think the chemistry between all the characters was very important to making the show work. I liked the character development more than the stories themselves. NCIS and Law and Order are franchises that are very story driven. If they set it in LA, those of us who remember LA Law will make comparisons. If they set it in Chicago, there is the series The Good Wife for comparison. Boston had Boston Legal. If they don’t set it in a big city, I don’t see how that would work. San Franciso might be interesting. The city itself would make for great location shots.
You make some excellent points @Tamsin!
I loved Suits when it was on. Most of the time I didn’t know if I was crushing on Gabriel or Patrick or Meghan or Sarah! And I just loved loved loved Louis! And I’d be ok with a new series and everything but the original cast and the amazing chemistry between them is one of the biggest factors in its current popularity. And let’s face it, people want to see Meghan hence the billions of views since it arrived on Netflix. If none of that is on the table, I couldn’t imagine it being all that popular. Along with how it went a little bit bananas in the last few seasons, particularly after Meghan left
My husband and I watched the show after Meghan and Harry got married. We enjoyed the first few seasons, but we finally bowed out when Rachel and Mike left. Like some others, I got tired of all the office politics and maneuvering. I much preferred the actual legal stuff, even if it was wildly unrealistic.
A new Suits-adjacent show could be good if they get good characters and actors and keep the humor. I’m not sure if I’d tune in or not, but I imagine a lot of people would.
Meghan is so, so, SO GOOD on Suits. Besides being otherworldly gorgeous (honestly, all of the women on Suits are capital “S” STUNNING–and the fashion! So many gorgeous bandage dresses, so little time) she’s a great actress. I would love to see the kinds of roles she would get now that her profile is through the roof–much more commensurate with her talent, IMO.