'Suits' Producer Talks Getting Meghan Markle Back for a Revival Amid Show's Streaming Resurgence

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resurgence in popularity and recent streaming record, could the USA Network legal drama — which took its final bow almost four years ago — be ready for a revival?Nielsen reported last week that the Meghan Markle-led series, which aired from 2011-19, set a streaming record during the week of June 26 to July 2.During that week,, which began streaming on Netflix on June 17, had 3.14 billion minutes of watch time, setting the record for an acquired series.

The record was previously held by, which had 2.49 billion watch minutes from June 14 to 20, 2021, according to .Executive producer Gene Klein, who served as a non-writing producer during the show's nine-season run, spoke with this week about the show's resurgence in popularity and the possibility of getting the cast back together.«I was surprised,» Klein said of recent streaming success. «I'm very proud of the show.

I, obviously, had a sense when I found out it was coming to Netflix [that] it would probably get another burst of viewing and that kind of thing, but I did not think this would happen.

The first time the [Nielsen] weekly Top 10 came out and the first three seasons were in there, I thought, 'Well, if everyone just keeps on watching, this is going to go on for a while because they'll keep on moving through the seasons,' and that's exactly what's happening.