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Who Is Ted Black? How A Top Hollywood Agent Inspired ‘Suits L.A.’
This is the story of how the central character of Suits: L.A., Ted Black, played by Stephen Amell, was inspired by prominent CAA agent Ted Chervin.
Born and raised in Bronxville, N.Y. Chervin became a federal prosecutor in New York after graduating from Harvard Law, pursuing mobsters and other organized crime kingpins, including the head of Colombia’s Cali drug cartel. Korsh’s spec script ended up being hourlong, and, while it drew interest from USA, the network brass didn’t feel the world of finance would have a wide appeal and asked for the setting to be changed to a law firm. NBCU was on board with that and Hindsight, ultimately renamed Suits: L.A., received a pilot order, casting Amell as the lead character Ted Black who at that point, following the project’s complex evolution, was only loosely based on Chervin.
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