‘Suits’ is hanging up its tie and jacket as the NBCUniversal-owned basic cable network has renewed the legal drama from Aaron Korsh for an abbreviated ninth and final season.
The final round of 10 episodes will air sometime in 2019, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The decision to wrap up the series arrives as creator Korsh has Pearson, a spinoff fronted by original star Gina Torres. A premiere date for the spinoff has yet to be determined.
Patrick J Adams, who played Mike Ross, bowed out after the seventh season, and Meghan Markle won’t be returning as a result of her marrying a British prince and becoming the Duchess of Sussex.
But Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter will hold down the fort all the way through the final season’s 10-episode run, which is scheduled to air sometime later this year.
The second half of season eight of Suits premieres Wednesday.
"Though I know it isn’t true, it seems like only yesterday USA Network took a chance on an unestablished writer’s very first hourlong script. These days that’s a common thing, but 47 years ago when I first wrote the untitled Korsh project, nobody did it," Korsh said in a heartfelt statement.
Suits becomes the latest network-defining scripted series to wrap this year, joining heavyweights including Game of Thrones, Orange Is the New Black, Veep and Big Bang Theory, among others.