USA Network has announced that its legal drama “Suits” won’t be concluding anytime soon as it has been renewed for another season.
The renewal announced during NBC Universal Cable’s day at the Television Critics Association press tour.
The show has been the network’s longest-running original scripted series on the air. The legal drama has been renewed for a 16-episode seventh season slated to premiere next year.
The pick-up comes three episodes into the show’s current season. This will then push “Suits” through the 100-episode mark, the fifth show of the network to do that after “Monk,” “Burn Notice,” “Psychand,” and “Royal Pains.”
The 100th episode of the show will be the fourth episode of the seventh season. With such milestone, fans can expect a memorable and special episode from the whole cast and crew.
The show continues to be a solid rating performer, averaging more than three million total viewers per episode and 1.1. million in live ratings for its sixth season.
Season 6 currently focuses on Patrick J. Adams’ Mike Ross facing two years of sentence in prison for fraud. It also highlights his relationship with fiance Rachel, played by Meghan Markle, and the future of Pearson Specter Litt law firm up in the air.
Since the beginning of the series, Mike falsely represented his clients as a lawyer of the courts, when he didn’t even pass the bar exam with Harvey covering up their big secret.
Gabriel Macht’s Harvey Specter, on the other hand, is fighting to keep Mike safe and to save their firm after a mass partner exodus.
Speaking to E! News, Adams spoke about how he felt the show was nearing its close. The 34-year-old actor says that after Mike and Harvey were busted and Mike is now behind bars, it somehow feels like the story is quietly starting to end itself.
Adams says that it’s mandatory for a show to end especially if the story or the characters have no more room to developed. The actor acknowledged that ultimately, the fate of the show is up to the writers, producers, and the network.
Some reports suggest that with the show coming back for Season 7, it’s possible that it will be the last. According to Parent Herald, showrunner Aaron Korsh feels the same way that Adams does.
The executive producer says that he is certain that they will get one more season after Season 6 but after Season 7, Korsh feels like that’s the perfect time to wrap things up for Mike Ross and the gang.
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Korsh says that he doesn’t envision “Suits” to be a series that can stay longer on air such as “CSI” or “NCIS” in other networks.
Meanwhile, the current season of the legal drama will be running the first half of the season with 10 episodes until September. The other half will air during the mid-season in spring, but Korsh himself doesn’t know when will that happen.
Speaking to Fox, the showrunner says that the writers have tons of ideas for the last six episodes of Season 6 that he hasn’t been clued into.
Fans are wondering if the whole Season 6 will play out with Mike behind bars. Korsh reveals that he actually planned for “Suits” to end with Mike’s incarceration and was supposed to happen back in Season 5.
In the latest episode, Harvey made it his mission to get Mike on board with talking about Kevin in order to get him out of prison.
After Mike was drugged, Harvey got him out to spend a little bit of time with Rachel as a means to persuade him to take the deal. Apparently, Sean Cahill had a different strategy in mind.