Why Stephen Amell Blames Himself for ‘Suits L.A.’ Cancellation After One Season: “It Didn’t Work”

Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Stephen Amell , who led NBC’s Suits L.A . , said he’s taking responsibility for the show’s cancellation after one season . The actor, who played Los Angeles attorney Ted Black in the Suits spinoff, made a recent appearance on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast , where he admitted that he thought the show “wasn’t good enough.” He added, “Anything that ends not on your terms is a failure.” However, Amell also put the show’s lack of success on himself personally, saying, “The blame rests with me.” Related Stories TV Even Stephen Amell Had to Run After 'Baywatch' Lead Role (But Not in Slow Motion) TV Fox's 'Baywatch' Reboot Casts Stephen Amell to Lead Series “Whatever problem you have with the show — because I think that there were issues — it’s my job to solve those, to smooth them over and to gloss them up with some type of performance or something that, tangible or otherwise, covers up those mistakes,” he explained. “Because you do something that is magnetic, that is charismatic, that fixes those problems. And I didn’t do that.” He added, “I didn’t find anything ultimately with Ted Black, that character, that translated, that smoothed those things over, that gave us a chance to keep going.” Later, the Arrow alum expanded on his reasoning, saying if the show’s “successful, I’m gonna get a disproportionate amount of the credit, and so I think it’s only fair that I stand in front and I take the blame. I’m the lead of the series and it didn’t work.” Amell claimed he wasn’t the only one who questioned the spinoff’s potential, even before it premiered. He said Aaron Korsh — who created Suits L.A . and Suits , which ran from 2011 to 2019 — also had some doubts. “When I saw the pilot of Suits L.A. — and this goes back to about a month ...