Exclusive: This is the news Suits fans have been waiting for — the star of the hit legal drama will appear on the upcoming NBC spinoff, Suits LA. Gabriel Macht, who played the brash and suave super lawyer Harvey Specter on the original series, will reprise his role on the offshoot in a three-episode arc, sources tell Deadline. A rep for NBC declined to comment.

Since Suits LA was announced a year ago, on the heels of the original series’ streaming resurgence on Netflix, there has been talk about Og cast members appearing in the follow-up. NBC executives have hinted at that possibility, with most Suits alums publicly saying that they would do it if Aaron Korsh, creator of both the original and the spinoff, called them.

Macht, who had not indicated whether he would come back, has always been at the top of wish lists to help launch the new series,...