NBCUniversal’s Jeff Bader Talks About ‘Suits LA’ Cancellation: “Those are the decisions we had to make.”

As you know, Suits LA has been axed by NBC after just one season. The series’ 12th episode, “Angry Sylvester,” turned out to be its last, as the show formally ended on May 11, 2025.

NBC has confirmed that they have decided not to renew the show for a new season, despite the producers giving it their best to at least come close to the success of the original series. But it just didn’t work out.

In a recent talk with the press, NBC’s exec Jeff Bader talked about the cancellation and he explained a bit why the decision had to be made.

Bader started off the conversation by saying that “it’s so hard to talk about shows and which ones we’re bringing back.” And while we can understand that from an executive point of view, it’s harder for fans of certain shows to discuss this, since they are the ones who view this content with emotions, rather than just pragmatism.

As for Suits LA, the cancellation both was and was not a shock, which is a bit of a conundrum, but the series didn’t do that well to justify a future in a volatile market, although with just 12 episodes, you could hardly expect it to, so we believe that the series deserved at least one more shot.

“Suits: LA had a very short run, but it really has not resonated [with audiences in] the way we thought it would. There can be many, many reasons why it hasn’t resonated, but it’s just not showing the potential to grow for us in the future, unfortunately,” Bader said about the decision to axe the show. “Those are the decisions we had to make.”

On a more general note, he also explained what the network is looking for before making a final decision on a show’s future.

“We had to look at the performance of the shows, both on linear and on digital. We had to see the ones that looked like they had growth potential in the future,” he explained. “We’re looking at how stable they are in their linear performance, how stable they are on digital which ones are growing, which ones are declining. And we had to make some hard decisions.”

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