Suits: L.A. Casts Lex Scott Davis as Female Lead Opposite Stephen Amell

Lex Scott Davis (The L Word: Generation Q) has been tapped to star alongside Stephen Amell in Suits: L.A., the Los Angeles-based spinoff pilot for NBC.

Davis, whose TV credits also include portraying Toni Braxton in the 2016 Lifetime pic Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart, will play Erica Rollins, a savvy and strong-willed rising star at the firm who is shrewd enough to test the loyalty of her associates only to admire some of them for not having any.

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Suits: L.A. follows Amell’s brand-new character, Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York who “has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles,” per the official synopsis. “Ted joined forces 15 years ago with his old buddy, Stuart Lane (played by The Walking Dead alum Josh McDermitt), to build an L.A. law firm that specializes in criminal and entertainment law.”

Suits creator Aaron Korsh, who served as showrunner on all nine seasons of the (well-streamed!) USA Network drama, will pen the spinoff pilot and executive-produce alongside David Bartis, Doug Liman, Gene Klein and pilot director Victoria Mahoney.

Production is slated to begin in late March in Vancouver, Canada.

The Feb. 1 pilot order came after an unexpected resurgence for the mothership show as it soared to streaming records on Netflix over last summer, becoming the most-streamed program of 2023. Available on Netflix since June (as well as on Peacock), the “blue sky” drama racked up 57.7 billion minutes viewed across its 134-episode library, Nielsen reports in its 2023 wrap-up, easily topping the list of Top 10 overall programs.

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