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Suits Renewed for Season 5 by USA

Shilo Adams — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:52:13 +0000

USA has announced that legal drama Suits has been renewed for a 16-episode fifth season that will premiere sometime in 2015.

“Suits continues to fire on all cylinders, delivering provocative storytelling and complex characters that viewers can’t get enough of,” said Chris McCumber, President of USA Network. “With some of the best writing on television, and a brilliant ensemble cast, we anticipate a spectacular fifth season for a series that has become a marquee property for USA.”

Having stayed in the top 10 of summer scripted series in the 18-49 and 25-54 demographics, as well as total viewers, the renewal for Suits was a fairly easy decision to make for USA. However, the network still has quite a ways to go in terms of renewal decisions, as veterans Graceland, Covert Affairs, and Royal Pains are all currently without a renewal. Also looking for word on their fate are new comedy Playing House, which has already finished its first season, and new dramas Rush and Satisfaction. While there will be a delay on the latter two as the network continues to look at time-shifted viewing, a decision on the veteran dramas should come sooner rather than later.

Suits joins a 2015 lineup that includes comedies Benched, co-created by Michaela Watkins (Trophy Wife) and starring Eliza Coupe (Happy Endings), and Sirens, which was renewed for a second season earlier this summer.

Suits airs Wednesdays at 9:00 on USA, with the midseason finale coming August 20th. You can check out the TVHackr pages for Suits stars Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams here and here.

Have you been watching Suits this season? Where would you like the story to go come season five? How do you think the rest of USA’s renewals will go?

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Patrick J. Adams

TVHackr — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:15:10 +0000

Following the divorce of his parents, Patrick J. Adams moved to the United States and enrolled in the theater program at the University of Southern California. He quickly became involved in the theater community around the area, making his stage debut in a production of “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?”, at The Mark Taper Forum and becoming a fixture at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Adams got into the world of film through a small role in 2003 hit Old School and subsequently made guest appearances on everything from Friday Night Lights and Jack & Bobby to Cold Case, Lost, and NCIS. After having several pilots fail to get off the ground, including 2008’s Good Behavior that found Adams playing twin brothers, his big break came in 2011 when he was cast as brilliant college dropout Mike Ross on provocative USA drama Suits, which began airing its third season in the summer of 2013. While Ross is a more sympathetic attorney, often becoming emotionally involved in his cases, his rival Harvey is a colder presence, more focused on getting a win than securing justice for those he works with, a fundamental difference that leaves the two at odds. For the role, Adams received a surprise Screen Actors Guild nomination in early 2012 in the category of Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series, which he lost to Boardwalk Empire star Steve Buscemi. While on Suits, Adams had a four-episode recurring arc on ill-fated HBO horse racing drama Luck, which was canceled after its first season due to the death of three horses and safety concerns for the remaining animals.

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Gabriel Macht

TVHackr — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:03:47 +0000

The son of a museum curator and One Life to Live actor Stephen Macht, Gabriel Macht first brought notice to his acting talent when he appeared in 1980 dramedy Why Would I Lie? as a young boy in the foster care system who helps bring two people together. However, despite the critical praise he earned at the tender age of 8, he didn’t return to the business until over a decade later, landing guest appearances on Beverly Hills, 90210, Spin City, and Sex and the City in the first few years of his adult career. Macht did the occasional bit of television, including starring in 2000 NBC supernatural series The Others, but focused more on film and theater, with roles coming in Behind Enemy Lines, The Object of My Affection, and A Love Song for Bobby Long. (The Carnegie Mellon graduate’s most notable theater credit during this time was “Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile” at Promenade Theater Off Broadway and Theater on the Square in San Francisco, though he also appeared in productions of La Ronde, To Whom It May Concern, Turnaround, and What the Butler Saw.) Following well-received turns in The Good Shepherd and Love & Other Drugs, as well as the Yankees fan returned to television in 2011 with USA’s Suits, where he plays Harvey Specter, one of New York’s top corporate attorneys. Along with co-star Patrick J. Adams, who plays brilliant college dropout Mike Ross, he received a producer credit on the legal drama, which began airing its third season in the summer of 2013.

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