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‘Matlock’ With Kathy Bates Renewed for Season 2 at CBS


"Matlock" has scored an early Season 2 renewal at CBS, Variety has learned.

Skye P. Marshall, Jason Ritter, David Del Rio, and Leah Lewis also star. “This reconceived ‘Matlock’ was devised by Jennie Snyder Urman with a brilliant surprise plot twist, and we knew we had something very special the moment we saw the first episode brought to life by the incredibly talented Kathy Bates,” said Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment. Bates as stars in the series as Madeline “Matty” Matlock, described as “a brilliant septuagenarian who achieved success in her younger years and decides to rejoin the work force at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases all while investigating a deeply personal secret of her own.”

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