NBC has officially greenlit a spinoff of the popular legal drama Suits, focusing on the formidable Ted Black, played by Stephen Amell. The new series, titled ‘Suits: LA,’ will offer a fresh yet familiar take for fans of the original show. The USA network has also chosen a murder mystery show from the Good Girls makers, Grosse Pointe Garden Society.
Suits: LA follows Ted Black who is set to lead a law firm in Los Angeles after being a former federal prosecutor in New York. The upcoming series will be helmed by the creator of the original law show, Aaron Korsh. Post the success of Suits last year, UCP of the Universal Studio Group and Korsh started the preparations for the second show settled in the same New York set.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the logline of the series is written as, “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 stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives.”
The list of actors includes Lex Scott Davis, Bryan Greenberg and Josh McDermitt. The creator, Aaron Korsh, will be the show’s executive producer, along with David Bartis, Gene Klein, and Doug Liman. They were also the executive producers of the original Suits. Victoria Mahoney will be the director and executive producer of the pilot.
Grosse Pointe Garden Society comes from the makers of Good Girls, Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs, who previously worked on the show’s four seasons for NBC. The upcoming murder mystery will be the second collaboration between Bans and Krebs and the USA broadcast network.
According to NBC, the plot follows “four members of a suburban garden club, all from different walks of life, who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.”
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