<p id=”par-1_21″>Meet the new Matlock. Kathy Bates stars as lawyer Madeline “Matty” Matlock in <a href=”https://cheatsheet.com/tag/cbs”>CBS</a>’s reboot of the <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/matlock-real-life-lawyers-andy-griffiths-character-based.html/”>classic legal drama <em>Matlock</em></a><em>. </em></p>
<p id=”par-2_58″>Viewers got a sneak peek at the new show on Sunday, Sept. 22. The episode was the network’s most-watched, non-Super Bowl Sunday series launch since 2019, drawing an audience of 7.73 million, according to <a href=”https://tvline.com/ratings/matlock-cbs-premiere-viewers-kathy-bates-1235338769/”>TVLine</a>. But it will be a few weeks until we see <em>Matlock </em>again on CBS. The show won’t begin airing new episodes until mid-October. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-the-next-episode-of-matlock-airs-oct-17-on-cbs”>The next episode of ‘Matlock’ airs Oct. 17 on CBS</h2>
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<p id=”par-3_54″>While the <em>Matlock</em> series premiere aired on Sunday after <em>60 Minutes, </em>that’s not its regular timeslot. Future episodes will air on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET starting on Oct. 17. (Also set to premiere that night are new seasons of <em>Ghosts </em>and <em>Elsbeth, </em>plus the new <em>Young Sheldon </em>spinoff <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/young-sheldon-georgie-and-mandy-spinoff-premiere-date-watch-cast.html/”><em>Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage</em></a><em>.</em>)</p>
<p id=”par-4_63″>In “Rome, in a Day,” Matty is settling into her new role at Jacobson Moore. Along with her colleagues Olympia (Skye P. Marshall), Billy (David Del Rio), and Sarah (Leah Lewis), she takes on a lawsuit involving a developmentally delayed teenager whose family claims he’s been wrongly accused of murder. Meanwhile, Olympia and her ex Julian (Jason Ritter) disagree on a parenting matter. </p>
<p id=”par-5_23″><em>Matlock</em> Episode 2 will also stream live and on-demand for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers, or on-demand the next day for Paramount+ Essential subscribers.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-how-to-catch-up-on-the-matlock-series-premiere”>How to catch up on the ‘Matlock’ series premiere </h2>
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<p id=”par-6_26″>Miss out on the <em>Matlock </em>series premiere, or want to watch if again? The episode will air again on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 9 p.m. ET. </p>
<p id=”par-7_21″>The first episode of <em>Matlock </em>is also streaming on Paramount+. It’s also available to watch for free on CBS’s <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/cbs” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>YouTube</a> channel. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-kathy-bates-on-why-she-returned-to-broadcast-tv”>Kathy Bates on why she returned to broadcast TV</h2>
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<p id=”par-8_54″>In <em>Matlock, </em>Bates’ character finagles her way into a job at a prestigious law firm after having been out of the workforce for years. Her reasons for doing so are deeply personal (read our breakdown of the premiere <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/matlock-reboot-twist-explained.html/”>here</a>), and that’s a big part of what drew the Oscar-winning actor to the show. <strong> </strong></p>
<p id=”par-9_66″>“I never really thought I’d be doing broadcast TV again,” she told <a href=”https://parade.com/tv/matlock-season-1-kathy-bates-interview” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Parade</a>. “When I first read it, before I got to the end of the script, I was going, ‘Oh, this is just another procedural, I don’t know if this is something that I’d be up for doing.’ And then, bang, all of a sudden, I saw what was underneath, and that really excited me.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_64″>Bates also relates to her character’s sense of feeling invisible as an older woman. Despite starring roles in movies like <em>Misery </em>(for which she won her Oscar) and TV shows like <em>American Horror Story</em>, she says that she feels sometimes people don’t see her. She recalled a recent experience on the Paramount lot where a group of visitors on a tour didn’t recognize her.</p>
<p id=”par-11_66″>“I thought they’d recognize me immediately when I was on my golf cart sailing by to go someplace,” she said. “I couldn’t even get their attention, you know? I’d be waving and they’d look right at me, and nobody would see who I was, and it got so frustrating. And I thought, ‘Well, maybe when this damn thing comes out they’ll know who I am again.’”</p>
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