August 11, 2011

USA has renewed freshman series Suits for a second season. The network is upping the episode count this time around, ordering 16 new episodes versus the 12 the first season got.

Suits has had a solid outing thus far for USA, becoming its third-best performing freshman series. Ratings-wise it pulls in an average 6.3 million weekly viewers with a 2.1 in the adults 18-49 demographic (Live + 7 data).

Five episodes remain in the show's first season, including tonight's. Season 1 is set to conclude next month on September 8. No time frame has been announced yet for the second-season return.

(Source: TV by the Numbers)