Seven Network will engage a digital-first strategy in 2025 with its international TV shows including the much-anticipated legal drama Suits LA Suits LA is a spin-off from Suits, the 2011 series which ran for nine seasons and launched Meghan Markle’s acting career, and it will exclusively premiere on 7plus early next year before it is broadcast on linear TV. Suits LA was commissioned by American network NBC after the runaway success of the original series on US streaming platforms in 2023 when it set a new record of 57.7 billion minutes watched, according to Nielsen.
The series will star Arrow actor Stephen Amell as Ted Black, a high-flying lawyer in Los Angeles. One of the show’s stars, Lex Scott Davis, has previously teased that cameos from the cast of the original series are “not impossible”. The release strategy for Suits LA forms part of what Seven is calling a “bonfires and fireworks” approach to its streaming platform, a strategy it admits it has borrowed from Netflix.
It is underpinned by 7plus’s library titles including The Rookie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Americans and Law & Order, the bonfire part, mixed in with spikes from buzzy premieres every month, the fireworks aspect. The network has committed to releasing at least one new exclusive international title every month on 7plus in 2025. These also include Grosse Pointe Garden Society, a murder mystery about a group of people in a garden club which has Desperate Housewives and Why Women Kill vibes.
