Stephen Amell is getting candid about the cancellation of NBC‘s former Suits spinoff, Suits LA, which got the axe before its Season 1 finale aired in May 2025.
As viewers who tuned into the show may recall, Amell played Los Angeles attorney Ted Black, a friend to Gabriel Macht‘s Harvey Specter, who was a main character on the original series that aired on USA Network. In a new interview on the podcast Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum, Amell got candid about the show’s poor performance, even going so far as to blame himself.
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