Suits: L.A. Pilot Casts TWD Vet Josh McDermitt Opposite Stephen Amell

The Walking Dead alum Josh McDermitt has been tapped to Suits up alongside Stephen Amell in the Los Angeles-based spinoff pilot for NBC.

Suits: L.A. follows a 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.

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Ted’s firm “is at a crisis point, and in order to survive he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career,” the description continues. “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. All of this is going on while events from years ago slowly unravel that led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved.”

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Arrow and Heels vet Amell, as recently reported, will play Ted, who is described as a “charismatic force of nature who puts his own needs above others,” per the official synopsis. “Ted joined forces 15 years ago with his old buddy, Stuart Lane, to build an L.A. law firm that specializes in criminal and entertainment law.”

McDermitt will fill the role of Stuart, who per our sister site Deadline is described as “energetic, powerful, focused and self-absorbed.”

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.

If picked up to series, Suits: L.A. will air on NBC, which handed the project a pilot order on Feb. 1.

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