Stephen Amell, who led NBC Fits Los Angeles.He said he takes responsibility for the show being canceled after one season.
The actor who played Los Angeles lawyer Ted Black in Suits Spinoff, recently appeared on Inside You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast, where he admitted that he thought the show “wasn’t good enough”. He added: “Anything that ends on other than your terms is a failure.”
However, Amell also placed the show’s lack of success on himself personally, saying: “The blame lies with me.”
“Whatever problem you have with the show — because I think there are problems — my job is to solve it, smooth it out and polish it with some kind of performance or something tangible or whatever, that covers up those mistakes,” he explained. “Because you do something attractive, charismatic, that fixes those problems. And I didn’t do that.”
He added: “I didn’t find anything in the end with Ted Black, that character, who translated, who facilitated those things, who gave us a chance to continue.”
later, share The alum expanded on his reasoning, saying if the show was “successful, I would get a disproportionate amount of credit, so I think it’s only fair that I stand up front and take the blame. I’m the lead of the show and it didn’t work.”
Amell claimed he wasn’t the only one who doubted the spinoff’s potential, even before it premiered. Aaron said Cyrus – who created Fits Los Angeles. and Suitswhich ran from 2011 to 2019 – also had some doubts.
“When I saw the pilot Fits Los Angeles – And this goes back to about a month after we finished shooting – I sat down with Aaron Korsh, who created the film Suits and Fits Los Angeles, He was editing the pilot. “He was like, ‘I don’t know if this is going to work,’” he recalls. “A lot of what he wanted to do seemed to conflict with what the network wanted. It seems like they just… I don’t want to say they fought, because I wasn’t part of those conversations, so I’m not going to speculate. But it seemed that what he wanted to do and what they wanted to do were different.
Amiel concluded that it was “difficult”. Fits Los Angeles It wasn’t renewed for a second season, but that’s ultimately “nobody’s fault either.”
“We definitely thought we would have another [season] And we had to work through some of these issues, and they said, “No, we’ll pull the plug,” Heels The actor said.
Fits Los Angeles Lex also starred Scott Davis, Josh McDermitt, Brian Greenberg, Rachel Goulding, Maggie Grace, and Troy Winbush.
NBC’s head of programming strategy, Jeff Bader, previously said during a conference call with media that the show “had a very short run” because it “actually didn’t resonate the way we thought it would. There could be many, many reasons — people speculate as to why it didn’t resonate, but it doesn’t really show the potential for growth for us in the future, unfortunately.”
