Next season of 'Suits' to be its last

Actor Meghan Markle's wedding to Britain's Prince Harry led to her departure from hit American series, Suits. This meant that her onscreen love interest Mike Ross (played by Patrick J Adams) also had to leave.

Being two of the main characters of the show, their exit had fans wondering whether the show would go on or not. And although Suits was indeed renewed for another season, it has now been announced that it will be the show's last, reported Hollywood Reporter.

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The network has renewed the legal drama for an abbreviated ninth and final season. The final round of 10 episodes will air sometime this year. The decision to wrap up the series arrives as creator Aaron Korsh has Pearson, a spinoff led by star Gina Torres who plays Jessica Pearson in Suits. A premiere date for the spinoff is yet to be announced.

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"Though I know it isn't true, it seems like only yesterday the network took a chance on an non-established writer's very first hour-long script. These days that's a common thing, but 47 years ago, when I first wrote the untitled Korsh project, it wasn't," Korsh stated.

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He continued, "I look forward to enraging, and hopefully sometimes, delighting you with the final episodes. Finally, to my wife Kate and my children, Cooper and Lucy: Thank you for enduring countless late nights and times away for me to get to live my dream. I love you."

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