‘Suits’ Heads to Broadcast Syndication After Streaming Conquest
After setting streaming records for months on end last year, Suits is heading to a new — or rather, old — frontier: broadcast syndication.
The former USA Network series will make its over-the-air debut in the fall on the Fox-owned MyNetwork TV programming service. All nine seasons (134 episodes in total) will be available via the service, which covers about 97 percent of TV homes in the United States.
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“It’s become increasingly more difficult, if not impossible, to launch obscure product on broadcast TV,” said Frank Cicha, executive vp programming for Fox Televsion Stations. “Suits is arguably the most buzzworthy scripted series of the last half decade, and MyNet looks forward to amplifying its success by introducing it to the broadcast television audience. We’re discussing some fun ways to do just that.”
Suits currently streams on Netflix and Peacock. When it was added to Netflix in June 2023, the series brought in huge viewing numbers, setting and then breaking the single-week record of viewing time for a library series several times, according to Nielsen’s streaming ratings. It also set a new mark for the most consecutive weeks at No. 1 overall in the Nielsen rankings. A spinoff series from creator Aaron Korsh, Suits: LA, is also in the works at NBC, with Stephen Amell starring.
Suits comes from Universal Studio Group’s UCP. NBCUniversal Syndication Studios is handling distribution of the series on broadcast.
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