Stephen Amell's wrestling drama “Heels” is coming to Netflix this fall

'If people watch the show, there's a real chance we can make more,' says "Heels" showrunner Mike O'Malley.

Heels is about to step into the biggest ring on streaming.

Both seasons of the wrestling drama — starring Stephen Amell and Alexander Ludwig as brothers struggling to launch their Georgia-based wrestling promotion into the big leagues — are coming to Netflix on Sunday, September 15. The critically acclaimed series is joining the streamer three months before it becomes the official home of World Wrestling Entertainment's RAW in January 2025.

Heels premiered in August, 2021 on Starz, and the drama — which also stars Mary McCormack, Chris Bauer, Allison Luff, Kelli Berglund, and Allen Maldonado — developed a small but passionate following of viewers. In September 2023, the network announced that it was not renewing Heels for a third season, prompting a backlash on social media from angry fans. At the time, showrunner Mike O'Malley told Entertainment Weekly that he was actively seeking a new home for the drama: "I really do think it's going to have a life someplace else," said O'Malley, who co-stars on the show as Charlie Gully, the flamboyant promoter of the Florida Wrestling Dystopia league.

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One year later, the logistics of getting the Heels cast back together for a third season are a lot more complicated. Amell, for one, is currently slated to star in Suits: LA for NBC, which was picked up to series and will premiere during the 2024-2025 TV season. But O'Malley isn't giving up hope.

"To a person, every single person involved in this show wants to make more Heels," he says. "The success of Suits: LA will just drive more people to watching Stephen’s work on Netflix. It doesn’t take that long to make a season of Heels. It’s very labor intensive, but there are windows of time during hiatuses to make more."

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Netflix does have a history of saving shows from cancellation. (See: You, Manifest, Lucifer, Longmire, Designated Survivor.) And Heels fans were left hanging by the season 2 finale, in which Amell's character, Duffy Wrestling League writer and star Jack Spade, suffered a medical emergency during his biggest match yet.

"Netflix is very practical," O'Malley adds. "If a lot of people watch the show, then there’s a real chance that we can make more. And if people don’t, there’s no reason to make more... The acting performances are so authentic and so genuine by every actor in this series, and I am thrilled that this platform will allow more people see those performances."

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