Is ‘White Collar’ the Next ‘Suits’? Matt Bomer Display conceal Returns to Netflix

Eight months after Suits hit Netflix, the streamer is bringing in yet any other USA Network hit, White Collar, and if it has even a a part of the success of Suits, it’ll soon be the squawk all people appears to be like looking out at.

White Collar — which returned to Netflix on Monday, April 1 — follows Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer), a animated con artist who escapes prison to reunite alongside with his girlfriend. After the love-lorn prison is apprehended again, he joins a piece-release program, turning into a skilled for FBI Agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) as he takes down white collar criminals.

The squawk ran for six seasons from 2009 to 2014, overlapping for just a few years with Suits‘ nine-season disappear. Both reveals were fragment of USA Network’s “Blue Sky” era, where reveals were largely procedurals anchored by neatly-developed fundamental characters. Suits has Harvey (Gabriel Macht) because the celebrated chief and Mike (Patrick J. Adams) because the engaging newcomer who isn’t completely qualified for the job. White Collar, in the period in-between, has Neal because the by-the-e book dilapidated and Peter because the charming protege whose credentials are wondered as a rule.

Indubitably, Suits additionally had the Meghan Markle speak. While the Duchess of Sussex is now now not fragment of the White Collar cast, the squawk does grasp several acquainted supporting stars from nostalgic, fan-licensed sequence, alongside with the slack Willie Garson (Sex and the Metropolis), Hilarie Burton Morgan (One Tree Hill) and Tiffani Thiessen (Saved by the Bell).

Love Suits, White Collar has a crime of the week layout with some overarching tales for the interval of the season targeted on the fundamental characters. While Peter is married and devoted to his job, Neal is continuously toeing the road between being a person of the legislation and a con on the lamb. The circumstances are fun, but it’s the characters that kept viewers coming succor for six seasons — and would possibly maybe maybe well even consequence in tale-breaking Netflix numbers.

Suits location several Nielsen viewing records after becoming a member of Netflix in July. It was once basically the most streamed squawk of 2023, logging 57.7 billion minutes of viewing all over Netflix and Peacock (53.1 billion of these minutes were from Netflix). It additionally location a tale for the greatest single week for an obtained sequence with 3.88 billion minutes watched at some level of the week of July 17.

For the reason that resurgence, Suits stars grasp reunited for diverse Trim Bowl commercials and a derivative, Suits: LA, is in the works. The White Collar cast, alternatively, doesn’t valid favor a derivative — they want to reunite.

“There was once focus on. It’s in truth very legitimate focus on, it’s in conversation,” Bomer told TVLine in November 2023. “Quite just a few issues must plunge into situation, but there is a notion in produce, at the very least, so we’ll seek for what occurs.”

The actor eminent that creator Jeff Eastin has crafted a technique to honor Garson, who died in September 2021 after a cancer battle, in the probably reunion project.

“Obviously, that’s the fundamental thing that got right here to my thoughts, but I felt that what Jeff Eastin supplied to Tim [DeKay] and I honors what he contributed to the squawk and honors him as an particular person,” Bomer added. “There’s no method I would ever be provocative with it again if it didn’t compose so. So I contemplate it’s a technique for him to, in some systems, aloof be a fragment of the squawk.”

Bomer aloof appears to be like succor fondly at his time on the squawk. “I’ll continuously grasp a love and loyalty to the squawk,” he acknowledged whereas asserting the squawk’s Netflix arrival by the expend of Instagram on Sunday, March 31. “It was once valid a in actuality surreal, magical ending to a in actuality dream reach factual trip.”

All six seasons of White Collar are now on hand on Netflix as well to Hulu.