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Stephen Amell Blames Himself for Suits L.A. Cancellation After 1 Season

Stephen Amell Blames Himself for Suits L.A. Cancellation After 1 Season

Stephen Amell, who led NBC’s Suits L.A., said he’s taking responsibility for the show’s cancellation after one season. The actor, who played Los Angeles attorney Ted Black in the Suits spinoff, made a recent appearance on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast, where he admitted that he thought the show “wasn’t good enough.” He added, “Anything that ends not on your terms is a failure.” However, Amell also put the show’s lack of success on himself personally, saying, “The blame rests with me.” “Whatever problem you have with the show — because I think that there were issues — it’s my job to solve those, to smooth them over and to gloss them up with some type of performance or something that, tangible or otherwise, covers up those mistakes,” he explained. “Because you do something that is magnetic, that is charismatic, that fixes those problems. And I didn’t do that.” He added, “I didn’t find anything ultimately with Ted Black, that character, that translated, that smoothed those things over, that gave us a chance to …

Even Stephen Amell Had to Chase After ‘Baywatch’ Series Lead Role

Even Stephen Amell Had to Chase After ‘Baywatch’ Series Lead Role

Stephen Amell can easily understand why more than 2,000 actors packed the lobby, ballroom and halls inside the Marina del Rey Marriott on Tuesday hoping to land a part on the Baywatch reboot for Fox and Fremantle. He had to chase down a role, too. It was just a week ago that Amell’s casting was revealed, and it will be a quick sprint to a March production start in Venice Beach and on the Fox lot in Century City. With showrunner Matt Nix at the helm and McG on board to executive produce and direct the first episode, the series will find Amell starring as Hobie Buchannon, the son of David Hasselhoff’s Mitch Buchannon from the original. Hobie’s world is turned upside down when Charlie, the daughter he never knew, shows up on his doorstep. She’s eager to carry on the Buchannon family legacy and become a Baywatch lifeguard alongside her dad. While hundreds of hopefuls were waiting to be seen by Fox casting directors — many of whom were decked out in red swimsuits with …