‘Suits: L.A.’ & ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’ Picked Up To Series By NBC

NBC pilots Suits: L.A. and Grosse Pointe Garden Society have been picked up to series by the network.

Suits: L.A. stars Stephen Amell and is a spinoff of the original USA Network series that recently regained popularity while streaming on Netflix. It had originally aired from 2011-2019.

According to Deadline, the original show’s creator Aaron Korsh returns as writer and executive producer for the new project, which UCP and Hypnotic produce.

Per the official logline, the show follows Ted Black (Amell), “a former federal prosecutor from New York, has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. 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.”

Also starring in the series are Josh McDermitt, Lex Scott Davis, and Bryan Greenberg. David Bartis, Doug Liman, and Gene Klein executive produce alongside Victoria Mahoney who also directed the pilot.

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NBC also announced that it has picked up Grosse Pointe Garden Society starring Melissa Fumero, AnnaSophia Robb, Ben Rappaport, Matthew Davis, Alexander Hodge, Aja Naomi King, Nancy Travis, and Felix Avitia.

The drama series, produced by Universal Television and Minnesota Logging Co., tells the story of four suburban garden club members from different backgrounds who “get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.”

It is executive produced by Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs, Casey Kyber, and Maggie Kiley (who also directed the pilot).