Suits revival begets inevitable White Collar revival
Matt Bomer, Tiffani Thiessen, and Tim DeKay have all said they're on board for a revival of USA original series White Collar
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In news that has us staring into the skies with fear in our hearts, waiting for signs of blue skies, white clouds, and a blimp with “You fucked around and now they’re bringing Royal Pains back, too” printed on the side, White Collar creator Jeff Eastin confirmed that a revival of the 2009 USA Network series is now in the works. And we had a joke all primed up to the effect that this was all somehow Suits’ fault, but no, Eastin just came out and said it: “Say thank you to Suits for starting this streaming trend. They were doing great, and got people watching White Collar now on Netflix. That’s doing really, really good. Off of that, it’s like, ‘Hey, let’s do another one.’”
For those of you unfamiliar with White Collar, it was, a little bit, kind of a lot like Suits, actually. (And not just because both shows had titles that were distractingly fashion-adjacent.) The series starred Matt Bomer—who confirmed that he’s “in” for a revival—as a charming corporate con-man who gets brought in by the FBI to help them catch other such criminals, giving it that whole “Our hero catches bad guys, but is also in danger of being caught for his own schemes” element that streaming audiences are apparently willing to tear all the skin off their own faces just to get a taste of.
When Eastin and Bomer made these statements (at Variety’s TV Fest event today), they also got buy-in from co-stars Tim DeKay and Tiffani Thiessen, which means they’ve pretty much got a White Collar quorum. (The show’s other most prominent lead, Willie Garson, died in 2021; the cast promised that Eastin’s script for the revival “honors Willie, too, in a profound way.”)
Reading between the lines, it sounds like what White Collar doesn’t have just yet is a network that’s also signed on to the reboot. (Unlike Suits, which is sending the mostly disconnected Suits L.A. to the big leagues of NBC.) Variety suggests it might go to Hulu, although it’s worth noting that Eastin’s career has been pretty quiet since the series went off the air in 2014. Still, we’ve learned that you don’t bet against USA original series about handsome men in nice clothing both doing and solving crimes in 2024, so, y’know, it’s probably just a matter of time.
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Actually kind of excited about this. Now bring back Burn Notice.
can be far behind…
Not sure it works without Willie Garson.
Neal: “Moz never mentioned he had a [insert familial relationship here].”
It absolutely doesn’t work without Mozzie. 🙁
Mozzie has an unknown kid with the hacker (that was played by Lena Headey in season 3), which would have been 13 years ago. She’s in trouble because she’s a little bit her hacker mom, a little bit her con-man father, but also in danger of ruining her life because she’s way in over her head (‘cause, 13). Neal comes back to help her and he has to enlist Peter and Elizabeth’s help. Now the question is this: Once the crisis is over, will Mozzie’s daughter be raised by Neal or by Peter and Elizabeth, or a combination of all three (spoiler: it’s all three)?(That’s my prediction).
Sad about Willie Garson dying before they could make it happen, but this revival has actually been in the works and publicly discussed by Eastin and the cast since before Garson died, and well before the whole Suits on Netflix thing: https://deadline.com/2023/11/matt-bomer-white-collar-revival-1235617715/
They had me at Tiffani Thiessen. White Collar was fun. I’m not sure how much of this I actually saw, but it always made for good background tv. Be good if they could get Marsha Thomason back too. She’s already filmed series 5 of The Bay, and I don’t think they’ve gotten around to series 4 of Cobra yet, so she should be available. Wasn’t Natalie Morales on WC for a while too?
Bring Natalie Morales in, but as Green Fury from “Powerless”, in which she was briefly great.
This show was also my first introduction to Alexandria Daddario and her two best friends.
I liked this show. Feels like Bomer should have been a bigger deal.
Royal Pains: He’s a doctor—but here’s the twist—he’s on LONG ISLAND.
That show made a mistake by not leaning into the potential relationship between the brother and the PA.
*quietly at first, the words barely comprehensible*Burn Notice revival…Burn Notice…Burn Notice revival….*the crowd begins to stir as the words grow louder, excitement permeating the air*Burn Notice revival. Burn Notice revival. Burn Notice revival.*the crowd is in a frenzy now, screaming at the tops of their lungs, transformed into the insane maenads of Greek mythology*BURN NOTICE REVIVAL! BURN NOTICE REVIVAL! BURN NOTICE REVIVAL!
Burn Notice ran its plot into the ground after like 2 seasons.What we NEED is a revival of Matt Nix’s other show around that time:
It’s a crime that this show never took off.
“The ladies, Jack, the ladies.” — Dan Stark
It’s also a crime it’s not available for streaming.
This’ll have to do you for now:
Considering White Collar was miles ahead of Suits, I am all for this.
Keep going until you get to Psych.
I just want them to make more shows like Suits and White Collar not actually bring them back for a revival.
Jeff Eastin then announced he managed to secure funding from a private equity partner named Nick Halden.
I really liked White Collar but it is going to suffer greatly without Willie Garson. Still will give it a chance. It’s one of those “good enough” shows. It’s not bad, it’s not great; it just exists and is worth watching when there isn’t anything else to.Franklin and Bash is also one of those.
Dang. I was hoping the next revival would be “In Plain Sight”.