Could streaming success lead to a revival of the beloved legal drama Suits? Hey, it worked for Manifest.

Manifest, an NBC sci-fi drama, was uncermoniously cancelled after three seasons, but a fan campaign (and great viewing numbers when the show was picked up by Netflix) led to a 20-episode fourth season, produced by the streamer. So could the same resurgence happen for the Patrick Adams and Gabriel Macht-led drama Suits, which ran for nine season on the USA network?

According to Aaron Korsh, the show’s creator, probably not – but not definitely not. Korsh addressed hopeful fans on Twitter (or X, if you must) to do a little dream-squashing.

Let me say right off that there is no #Suits reboot or anything in the works. Strike would have to end, some network or streamer would have to reach out and then we would have to collectively want to. Which is no small thing…

Aaron Korsh on Twitter

It’s hard to argue with those reasons; the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes have put an end to movie and television production for the foreseeable future. But after Suits joined Netflix’s roster this past June, the drama, which ended in 2019, blew way up, setting a viewing time record for an acquired series that month – beating Manifest handily – with Suits racking up 3.14 billion viewing minutes to Manifest‘s 2.49 billion.

Suits, which debuted on USA in 2011, was a romance-comedy-legal drama that followed the lives and careers of the employees at New York-based law firm Pearson Hardman. The show was headlined by Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter, who served as a mentor to fake lawyer Mike Ross, played by Patrick J. Adams. Ross tried cases and more often than not won, mostly due to his photographic memory; his lack of an actual law degree or license provided much of the tension in the program.

Other key players included the likes of Gina Torres as Jessica Pearson (who would later headline a single-season spinoff), Sarah Rafferty as Specter’s invaluable assistant Donna Paulsen and current actual royal person Meghan Markle as Rachel Zane.

Of all the cast members who would have to be wrangled into new contracts should a revival be planned, Markle would probably be the toughest get, as she left the show in Season 7 to focus on her new career as the wife of England’s Prince Harry.

Korsh posits that the reason the show has taken off right now is due to its a sudden surge of popularity on TikTok. He told The Hollywood Reporter, “I think why people are tuning into it is a combination of that TikTok thing, there’s no doubt that there’s some curiosity about Meghan [Markle], and then Netflix knows how to entice you to watch a television show and then that builds on itself. Now, the reason I think people are responding to it? I don’t think it’s totally different from how I loved Ted Lasso when it came out in the pandemic. I think with the characters in Suits, people either see themselves in someone and/or see who they wish they were, and it also has an inherent optimism to it, even though sad things do happen.”

He went on, “It’s funny, I took a lot of heat over the years whenever something bad would happen to someone on the show, people really get upset about it. But in this period of time in the world, I think the characters and the underlying base optimism are why people are connecting to the show, and then maybe some of it is tonal because it has drama but also it has humor.”

Korsh credits his writing team for being the ones behind the show’s great stories, and echoes the demands of the Writer’s Guild for more compensation for those scripting the content that drives eyeballs to streaming. “I’m 1,000 percent supportive of my guild; there needs to be an overhaul to the way writers are compensated because residuals are vanishing when you make shows for streamers,” he told THR.

So while there is little to feed the already-slim chance for a Suits revivial, Korsh said if he could make any show, it would be a prequel featuring one of the show’s more popular supporting characters. “[I]f I could wave a magic wand and get another show on the air, it wouldn’t be a continuation of Suits. Now, I know I’ve mentioned the [Robert] Zane prequel idea [about Rachel’s dad, played by Wendell Pierce], I would do that in the second. I was really excited about that,” he said in the interview. 

You can keep those streaming numbers up regardless, by watching seasons 1-8 on Netflix, and the abbreviated final season on Peacock.