After a summer of breaking streaming records, Suits may be opening some new offices.
Series creator Aaron Korsh is in the early stages of developing a show set in the world of his USA Network legal drama for NBCUniversal — but it’s not a reboot or sequel. Instead, the potential series would feature new characters and a new setting, similar to other multi-show franchises (whether there would be any crossover potential with the original is a question for much further down the road). Los Angeles is the most likely setting for the project, sources say.
Universal Studio Group’s UCP produced Suits for USA, and discussions are underway with the studio about the new project. A potential series from Korsh would most likely run on an NBCU-owned platform.
The news comes after Suits spent 12 straight weeks as the most streamed title in the United States, according to Nielsen data (it’s available on Netflix and Peacock) — and two weeks and change after the end of the writers strike, which allowed scribes to return to work and take meetings about potential new projects.
Korsh told The Hollywood Reporter in August that he would consider a Suits revival “if someone reached out and the cast was into it,” but only “if I could come up with something that excited me. But if I could wave a magic wand and get another show on the air, it wouldn’t be a continuation of Suits.”
He also noted, however, that the first thing he wrote after Suits ended in 2019 was a spec script that “has plenty of DNA of what people liked about Suits. I think it’s a cousin of Suits, but more reflective of wherever I was when I wrote it. ”
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