Fits: LA, the spin-off of the highly-popular common authorized drama Fits, has discovered its lead star.
Arrow actor Stephen Amell will likely be taking part in the function of Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York. Described as a “charismatic drive of nature who places his personal wants above others”, Black now represents highly effective shoppers in Los Angeles.
Information of Amell’s casting comes weeks after US tv community NBC introduced that it had ordered a pilot for the spin-off, with manufacturing beginning in March. Chatting with leisure outlet Folks, Amell stated: “I am very excited. It is one thing very new and completely different for me: Talky-talky, not punchy-punchy.”
The official synopsis of Fits: LA reads: “Ted Black is a former federal prosecutor from New York, who has reinvented himself representing probably the most highly effective shoppers in Los Angeles. His agency is at a disaster level, and with the intention to survive, he should embrace a task he held in contempt his complete profession. Ted is surrounded by a gaggle of characters who take a look at their loyalties to each Ted and one another whereas they’ll’t assist however combine their private {and professional} lives. All of this is happening whereas occasions from years in the past slowly unravel that led Ted to go away behind all the things and everybody he cherished.”
The unique Fits starred Patrick J Adams as Mike Ross, a person who works as an affiliate in a regulation agency regardless of not having a license to practise regulation, and Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter, the legal professional who takes Mike underneath his wing. Fits ran for 9 seasons, from 2011 to 2019.
In 2023, it loved a brand new wave of recognition after airing on Netflix worldwide, with Nielsen reporting that the present was seen for a complete of 57.7 billion minutes on Netflix – making it the most-streamed present of 2023.